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YouTube works fine in Firefox. I use it all the time. It works well in mobile firefox as well.

I was affected by this bug for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10877810

That bug was YouTube's fault.

That's why I said that YouTube has quite a few bugs in Firefox ;)

Outside of places like the us? Crappy streaming for starters.

Hm ... works fine here in Germany.

Agreed. youtube is terrible on my FF compared to air.

Youtube lets me watch at 1.5 to 2x speed.

So does all HTML5 video, it just doesn't show the controls.

Here's my bookmarklet (doesn't work on embedded videos in iframes, I assume because of same-origin-policy)

javascript:void%20function(){document.querySelector(%22video%22).playbackRate=parseFloat(prompt(%22Set%20the%20playback%20rate%22))}();

> So does all HTML5 video

When there's the bandwidth to serve it, air often fails to load fast enough for 1x.

YouTube isn't the fastest here in Germany either. For example the Telekom (Germany's largest ISP) has bandwidth troubles with YouTube from time to time (because of some backbone bottleneck). I could only find a German blog post about this, but I have definitely experienced this myself: http://stadt-bremerhaven.de/telekom-aeussert-sich-zu-youtube...