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moderndaytragedy

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Registered: 2025-08-23

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[SOLVED] youtube videos won't play in one of the browsers anymore

So i have 2 browsers vanilla Firefox and librewolf (Firefox based) installed from yay as librewolf-bin both only have 1 extension (ublock)

I had a post about powertop killing my wifi which turned out was it messing with my dpi bypass which then messed with my internet (i don't know if --auto-tune had messed with anything else or not)

After setting everything back up i can open youtube in both however only vanilla Firefox starts playback

I use librewolf as my main browser and i would like to try and fix it first before moving to something else

I don't know if it's a linux issue but i haven't updated it so i don't know what could have caused it to stop working

I tried reinstalling but it didn't help
Any help appreciated thanks

Last edited by moderndaytragedy (2025-08-28 18:31:36)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] youtube videos won't play in one of the browsers anymore

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PulseA … do_no_play ??

systemctl status --user pipewire wireplumber pulseaudio

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euromatlox

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Registered: 2017-02-10

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Re: [SOLVED] youtube videos won't play in one of the browsers anymore

Don't know much about that browser, but hw disabling has helped sometimes.

I found this by google search:

Disable Performance/Hardware acceleration.
Settings > General > Performance > uncheck both boxes, restart browser.

moderndaytragedy

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Registered: 2025-08-23

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Re: [SOLVED] youtube videos won't play in one of the browsers anymore

Toggling hw didn't help
I don't use pulse audio and vanilla firefox works fine
I tried user agent switcher since i found a couple similar issues but it didn't help

Last edited by moderndaytragedy (2025-08-28 17:02:19)

moderndaytragedy

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Re: [SOLVED] youtube videos won't play in one of the browsers anymore

So after updating both firefoxes to 142 on my win computer both of them stop being able to play anything
How do i downgrade it on linux?
Edit: turn out vanilla ff on linux is also 142 and it's the only one that plays very strange

Last edited by moderndaytragedy (2025-08-28 17:29:08)

moderndaytragedy

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Re: [SOLVED] youtube videos won't play in one of the browsers anymore

So after trying to manually harden firefox i found that yt stops playing after setting
security.OCSP.require to true In about:config
Revert that and it's all fine again
I dunno if it's a recent change by yt or if dpi bypass is messing with me again but either way problem solved
Edit: switching from iwd to network manager also fixes the issue i assume it was dns related

Last edited by moderndaytragedy (2025-08-29 12:11:10)