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why are youtube viseos so slow on firefox site loads but video dosent until after 20 sec this dosent happen in chrome but chrome suckes

Funday
Funday
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in google chrome site loads and video instantly but in firefox the video takes 10-20 sec to start after the site loads i have used chrome to get around this but google chrome sucks to much what can i do to fix this?

in google chrome site loads and video instantly but in firefox the video takes 10-20 sec to start after the site loads i have used chrome to get around this but google chrome sucks to much what can i do to fix this?

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FredMcD
FredMcD
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Youtube currently uses the HTML5 player.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/fix-common-audio-and-video-issues

jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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Sometimes the delay is a pre-roll ad that has been blocked in a manner that still forces you to wait. If you use an ad blocking extension, try creating an exception for YouTube to see whether that makes any difference.