When spoofing the user agent of Firefox to make it appear to be Chrome, YouTube loads up completely as normal. There’s no wait time, and the loading as a whole is drastically faster.

Users on Reddit and Hacker News are complaining that YouTube seems to have inserted an intentional five-second delay before video pages will load in Mozilla’s Firefox and occasionally some other ...

Redditor vk6_ further notes that this isn’t a bug on Firefox. The JavaScript code for the YouTube client on the desktop reportedly contains code that adds the artificial five-second delay.

"YouTube serves a Shadow DOM polyfill to Firefox and Edge that is, unsurprisingly, slower than Chrome's native implementation. On my laptop, initial page load takes 5 seconds with the polyfill vs ...

Depending on your graphics card or driver configuration, Mozilla Firefox may crash or be unable to display YouTube videos or text properly. Turning off hardware acceleration may fix the problem.

Mozilla Firefox 104.0.1 is now available on supported platforms with a single fix in the changelog: Addresses an issue with Youtube video playback that was affecting some users.

Lastly, confirm the Firefox resetting process by clicking on the Refresh Firefox option. Hopefully, this fixes up the issue for you and you are able to play YouTube videos in Firefox.

Google, who owns YouTube, told 404 Media that this is all part of its larger effort against ad blockers and has nothing to do with Firefox.

Watch YouTube videos more efficiently with Better YouTube, a brand new Firefox extension that compiles our favorite YouTube Greasemonkey scripts into a single convenient package. Better YouTube ...

When the privacy. resistFingerprinting privacy feature is enabled in Firefox, the feature will make the browser more resistant to fingerprinting scripts.

Firefox is now available on Amazon’s Fire TV, and it can access YouTube An alternative workaround to the Amazon-Google feud by Nick Statt Dec 20, 2017, 10:32 AM PST Image: Firefox ...