Firefox Issues With Youtube - is it just me or does 3.6 suck?

[Keltik THC]

Does anyone else experience major issues with Firefox and Youtube? and with FF 3.6 in general?

when updating my channel and generally surfing it keeps on lagging, like i watch a video click another link and it just hangs on 'loading...' for ages.

Its really a pain when you are trying to update your channel.

I thought it may have been youtube servers but when i switch over to IE it runs perfectly.

I have a funny feeling it may be a flash issue? although i tried setting the youtube local storage on firefox to unlimited it still hangs all the time.

I guess it maybe just firefox 3.6, seems to be very buggy, every time i close FF down and then try to re-open it it advises me that FF is still running and i have to go to task manager to end the process.

Firefox used to be the best, and maybe it still is - but for the first time in years I'm seriously considering trying out another browser.

anyone else have such issues?

 

[Paul11]

i had an issue with youtube and firefox with it stuttering (not sure if its the same problem you are having)

i changed a setting in firefox and it solved it

ill find it and be right back

edit : here


Fix for Flash video stuttering in Firefox

Have you notice, that sometimes Flash-based videos stutter when you view them in Firefox, but work fine in other browsers like Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Safari? This turns out to be a problem of appears to be a problem of Firefox's session restore feature, that affects both Windows and Mac versions. So what's the solution? Well, you can either turn off the session restore feature altogether. Or simply lengthen the period of time between snapshots. To do this, type about:config into Firefox's address bar, then in filter box enter browser.sessionstore.interval. The default value’s 10000, which’s the number of milliseconds between snapshots. Setting the number to 120000 lengthens the period to two minutes, a more reasonable but still useful period. Of course, you can set it to whatever you want, as long as you keep in mind that you're dealing with milliseconds.

 

[tolien]

Try Chrome, Opera, Safari or something of the sort. IE uses a completely different Flash plugin to the rest so it's not a test of what's probably the cause - Flash.