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Did videos just stop playing in firefox ? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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is half the internet hosted in rural america?

reddit, twitch, streamable, videos don't play anymore. it worked a few hours ago. works in chrome though and edge.

but i rather stop using internet than switch to chrome

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

No.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

alright. maybe some undersea cable got cut then. we'll see soon.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Maybe try the old off and on again.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

fuck me, yup restarting firefox did it. i checked for updates, no update, sometimes if there's available updates, starts acting weird.

or maybe they just fixed the cable :P

thanks

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

No probs.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I find that I need to restart Firefox every few days in Linux Mint. It gets increasingly laggy and slow to the point where it will no longer play videos; clicks on even simple, local pages take a few seconds to register. Not a big deal for me, but I just need to remember to do it.

So, not sure if you and I are having even remotely the same problem, but there's my two cents.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I had the same problem yesterday, restarting Firefox helped for a bit, but then it recurred. I'm not entirely sure what's happening--I'm assuming it's not Firefox itself, as I hadn't updated it (even if there was an update). I kind of assumed it was an extension proble as I noticed on YouTube first (so I assumed it was them changing something to block add blockers), but it was universal to other websites as well. No idea.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

You could have a video playback issue in FF itself. Try installing FF nightly (alongside FF) and see if it works.

Alternatively, there are stripped versions of Chrome like Cromite that you can try.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks, i like firefox, have been using it for ages, restarting it fixed it, must have been some weird glitch. Not in a market for new browser just yet though as long as this one is superior. Ad-block capability is probably number 1 requirement though and no hidden data theft.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah. I am probably posting this in the wrong community, but I use Cromite over Firefox because its adblocker is native (hence much faster than FF, especially on Android), and it’s more “hardened” for security/privacy in a multitude of ways, like anti-fingerprinting spoofing/tricks, an internal firewall, strict default policies, things like that.

There are variants of FF that lean in that direction as well, though I am less familiar with them.

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