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I used google chrome and found that using youtube was fantastic, but coming back I find firefox short on quality when watching youtube on firefox.. why

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frankc50
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I used google chrome and found that using youtube was fantastic. But coming back I find youtube in firefox short on quality when watching youtube on firefox.. why,is the quality that goes as high as 720p where as youtube has a quality as high 2040 and higher and in 4k

I used google chrome and found that using youtube was fantastic. But coming back I find youtube in firefox short on quality when watching youtube on firefox.. why,is the quality that goes as high as 720p where as youtube has a quality as high 2040 and higher and in 4k

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user633449
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Unfortunately, because youtube is owned by google, they often optimize youtube to work better with Chrome than with other browsers. There are a few things you can do to achieve higher performance though:

I hope these help!