3mo ago

Did videos just stop playing in firefox ?

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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No.
- alright. maybe some undersea cable got cut then. we'll see soon.
  
  Maybe try the old off and on again.
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.
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.
- 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.
  
  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.
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.

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