A Fix For Trippy YouTube Playback With Firefox Quantum 57

Posted on November 15, 2017 by mikecane

Got this?

Then go to Options (hamburger icon at far upper right side or ALT key-> Tools menu -> Options). Scroll down in General (which should be the default view) to Performance and uncheck Use Recommended Performance Settings. That will reveal Use Hardware Acceleration When Available, which will probably be checked. Uncheck it.

I now have normal YouTube playback again. Thanks to philipp_sumo on Reddit who gave me a trail to follow for this fix.

This bug seems prevalent in AMD graphics. Updating the driver didn’t help me. The above did.

Previously here:

Constrained Blogging
Major Firefox Quantum 57 Problem

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2 Responses to A Fix For Trippy YouTube Playback With Firefox Quantum 57

  1. Anthony Jones says:
    November 15, 2017 at 7:05 pm

    A more specific solution which will have less impact on performance is to set media.wmf.use-nv12-format=false in about:config

    Reply

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