Firefox 150 release notes for developers (Stable)

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I'm so tired of Firefox. I've been using this browser since before it was called Firefox, so I don't say this lightly. But for several months now, through numerous version updates, Firefox on Linux (on my box anyway) has been almost completely unusable on Youtube.

Start playing a video and make the mistake of tabbing away and then tabbing back to that tab? "An error has occurred".

Start playing a video, and pause it for any reason, then come back and try to unpause it? "An error has occurred".

Start playing a video and try to skip forward or back within the video using the playback slider? "An error has occurred".

Start playing a video and let it play some random amount of time? "An error has occurred".

Try to start playing certain random videos? "An error has occurred".

As much of a rabid open source ideologue as I am, I'm about "this" close to switching to Chrome. sigh

(And before anybody asks, yes, this has been reported. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1987042)

This seems like a tiny percent of userbase if not personal issue. This can happen to any software for a specific config. Disabling hardware acceleration would most likely fix your issue but this is not a true solution. Also try forcing alternative encodings in youtube. Sadly if the issue is not widespread a fix from any company is not a priority.

> Disabling hardware acceleration would most likely fix your issue but this is not a true solution. Also try forcing alternative encodings in youtube.

Yeah, I've tried every setting tweak, hack, or workaround I could find. Nothing has resolved the issue yet. A few tweaks seemed to at least partially alleviate it for a while, but nothing that would count as a real fix.

> Sadly if the issue is not widespread a fix from any company is not a priority.

Yeah, no doubt. :-(

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