Why you SHOULD be using Firefox

Vimes said:
Yeah, disabled what I did and still, on occasion, I get pauses........

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as you can see for the circle type thing in the above screen.

What browser did you end up with..?

Thanks.
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Currently playing around with 2, Brave and Edge.

Messing around with Edge canary on android atm.
 
SpartaP said:
Currently playing around with 2, Brave and Edge.

Messing around with Edge canary on android atm.
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I enjoyed Edge and its account sharing etc on Windows and Android. Feature wise it seems decent.
Ideally I want a browser that'll work fine between both platforms.
I've not considered Brave. Is that OK for you with YT..?
 
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SpartaP said:
When I did my testing a few months back, I found Firefox was the issue with the stutter/pausing of video playback on YouTube. Testing the same vid on chromium browsers worked absolutely fine.
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In my experience it is more complicated than that, there seems to be some issues with the way YouTube is trying to combat ad-blockers (I think), fortunately I've not had problems with it in awhile, and other browsers seem to handle it more gracefully i.e. Edge just flashes up a corrupt frame and continues playing as normal while FF will get weird buffer stalling and eventually stop playing or the picture freeze up but audio continue, etc. etc.

Fortunately I've not had is happen in a couple of months or so now.
 
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Rroff said:
In my experience it is more complicated than that, there seems to be some issues with the way YouTube is trying to combat ad-blockers (I think), fortunately I've not had problems with it in awhile, and other browsers seem to handle it more gracefully i.e. Edge just flashes up a corrupt frame and continues playing as normal while FF will get weird buffer stalling and eventually stop playing or the picture freeze up but audio continue, etc. etc.

Fortunately I've not had is happen in a couple of months or so now.
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That's good! I briefly tried FF since their update that was meant to fix this issue. It seemed ok for a while and then happened again. I found it odd as it wasn't every video, but the videos it did pause, it was always at the same point every single time. Refreshing page, closing browser, clearing cookies, rebooting PC made no difference. Couldn't find the issue and had to put it down to the browser itself.

I forgot to mention that when I did my testing, all browsers were unmodified, no extensions etc and on clean windows 11. Not tested on win 10 though.
 
SpartaP said:
I found it odd as it wasn't every video, but the videos it did pause, it was always at the same point every single time. Refreshing page, closing browser, clearing cookies, rebooting PC made no difference. Couldn't find the issue and had to put it down to the browser itself.
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I found 50% of the time if I swapped over to say Edge at the exact same timestamp it would also cause an issue but it was usually just a single corrupt frame and then the video continued as normal, which suggests it is something related to YT's content system and yeah wasn't every video and would also happen about 50% of the time on another system, internet connection on FF as well just the same. But then like the next day that video would be fine but a different one might exhibit issues.
 
Vimes said:
I enjoyed Edge and its account sharing etc on Windows and Android. Feature wise it seems decent.
Ideally I want a browser that'll work fine between both platforms.
I've not considered Brave. Is that OK for you with YT..?
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Yea Brave has been really good, no complaints here. Their experimental filters have been working great out the box. I've been testing it without any additional adblockers and it's performing really well, on all platforms I've been using. Windows, iOS and Android.

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Just to add, personally I feel Edge has come a long way and has some good built in features. I would also argue that it's probably the snappiest browser I've used to date.
 
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As Rroff noted, if the source of the issue mentioned is YT that occurs randomly, but, at this point, causes a glitch with edge that is recoverable then that might be favoured.

I did read, in this thread, that FF had been patched to address issues that seemed to be similar to what I described.

I had removed, not just disabled, extensions but still FF seemed to occasionally fall over with YT.
Frustrating.
 
Win10/Nvidia(old 970)/Firefox/ublock/sponsorblock.

Never had this 'pausing on youtube' issue. A hardware vp9 decode issue perhaps? Try the enhanced-h264ify addon and force h264 only as a test.
 
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yashiro said:
Win10/Nvidia(old 970)/Firefox/ublock/sponsorblock.

Never had this 'pausing on youtube' issue. A hardware vp9 decode issue perhaps? Try the enhanced-h264ify addon and force h264 only as a test.
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Interesting. I'll see what I can do.
Good to know about those active extensions making no difference.
Hopefully Windows 11/ 24H2 isn't involved here.
 
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Rroff said:
In my experience it is more complicated than that, there seems to be some issues with the way YouTube is trying to combat ad-blockers (I think), fortunately I've not had problems with it in awhile, and other browsers seem to handle it more gracefully i.e. Edge just flashes up a corrupt frame and continues playing as normal while FF will get weird buffer stalling and eventually stop playing or the picture freeze up but audio continue, etc. etc.

Fortunately I've not had is happen in a couple of months or so now.
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I thought there was more to it than just AdBlock tbf. I seem to remember reading that someone had spoofed Firefox to appear as Chrome and the stuttering went away. Not the AdBlock stuttering, that's another thing.

Edit: seems it was a year ago

 
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