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
No.
alright. maybe some undersea cable got cut then. we’ll see soon.
Maybe try the old off and on again.
fuck me, yup restarting firefox did it. i checked for updates, no update, sometimes if there’s available updates, starts acting weird.
or maybe they just fixed the cable :P
thanks
No probs.
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.
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.
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.
