Did they fix the horrible performance of Firefox based browsers? That was deal breaker for me. YouTube videos would lag and stutter for 1-2 seconds before playing. Smooth as butter on chrome based browsers. I don’t want to rely on chrome based browsers.
have been using bazzite for a while now and don’t have issues with Firefox, could be tests Google are running. they recently are targeting users of adblockers and artificially setting high load times in hopes users disable them. a decent alternative is freetube (on flathub) which is anonymous so you can’t login but you can import playlists and includes ad+sponsor block. they’re pretty fast at fixing Google’s attempts to break it too, sometimes you might have to change instances to get it working.
I personally wouldn’t describe it as horrible, but it is good to hear someone else seeing problems with video playback on YT. Just curious though, did you have any add-ons? I do and I need to compare playback without them. Hrmm
I recommend some variant of the h264ify plugin if you’re having weird video issues with firefox based browsers.
There’s some nonsense going on with some of the codecs Youtube uses + FF… YT used to let you more manually set your codec preferences, now they don’t, but the h264ify plugins basically allow you to set those prefs yourself, and by default just disallow the problematic ones.
Did they fix the horrible performance of Firefox based browsers? That was deal breaker for me. YouTube videos would lag and stutter for 1-2 seconds before playing. Smooth as butter on chrome based browsers. I don’t want to rely on chrome based browsers.
I just installed and run my browser through a Fedora toolbox (distrobox) and it fixed that problem completely.
I use FreeTube for yt, but that has issues with IP blocks and stuff while using a VPN, but it works if I switch servers once or twice.
Didn’t think of that but too late now. Just nuked and went with Fedora proper.
have been using bazzite for a while now and don’t have issues with Firefox, could be tests Google are running. they recently are targeting users of adblockers and artificially setting high load times in hopes users disable them. a decent alternative is freetube (on flathub) which is anonymous so you can’t login but you can import playlists and includes ad+sponsor block. they’re pretty fast at fixing Google’s attempts to break it too, sometimes you might have to change instances to get it working.
This feels more like a codecs issue tbh. Not a bandwidth problem. It’s more hardware lag if that makes sense.
Maybe the same issue that Silverblue has with the Firefox from the Fedora repo. The Flathub repo Firefox has the non-free codecs in it.
I yeeted the installed one and just went with the rpm Firefox, works a treat
I personally wouldn’t describe it as horrible, but it is good to hear someone else seeing problems with video playback on YT. Just curious though, did you have any add-ons? I do and I need to compare playback without them. Hrmm
I did clean installs no addons of zen and librewolf and all of them had the same laggy stutter the first 1-2 seconds a video loads.
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Dude I read this over like 3 times and can’t make sense of it. You having a stroke or are you good?
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I recommend some variant of the h264ify plugin if you’re having weird video issues with firefox based browsers.
There’s some nonsense going on with some of the codecs Youtube uses + FF… YT used to let you more manually set your codec preferences, now they don’t, but the h264ify plugins basically allow you to set those prefs yourself, and by default just disallow the problematic ones.
I just nuked it and went with regular Fedora and it works fine now. It was only a problem on Bazzite.
Huh. Well, glad you found a solution!