Ask HN: YouTube Unusable on Firefox?

1 points by sergiotapia 7y ago ↗ HN

I'm on Firefox Developer Edition and youtube is so busted on it that I'm trying to figure out if it's the browsers fault, or the website's fault.

Here are some problems I see on youtube:

1. Switching videos something leaves the old video playing and I have to hard refresh for it to actually load the right video.

2. I understand and wish to proceed button is not clickable whatsoever. No matter what I try, I cannot click to watch these videos.

3. It freezes and forces me to close the tab.

Does anyone else experience these issues with firefox on youtube? Is youtube doing something funky to force people to switch to chrome?

If I use hooktube to watch the same video it'll work flawlessly. Something up with youtube.com

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efkiel 7y ago ↗

1. This is not restricted to newer build, I am on v65.0.2 and remember the last version also had this issue

2. Not too sure where this button is, i don't remember anything about it so i guess it went flawlessly

3. Refreshing usually fixes this for me.

ohiovr 7y ago ↗

Anecdotally during some linux distro shopping i had a bout of contant firefox tab crashing in kubuntu. xubuntu doesnt seem to suffer as much. Could have nothing to do with kubuntu, perhaps the youtube servers had a bad payload that day.

chaosprophet 7y ago ↗

Try loading it with Firefox in extensions disabled mode. The last time I had an issue with Firefox and YouTube, it was due to an extension.