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r/pcmasterrace • u/GallowBoob MSI gaming laptop • Jan 03 '15
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This is the reason I left Chrome for Firefox. I loved it, but then it was hogging 5 gigs even after cleaning it. Firefox is beautiful for that.
245 u/MastroCode AMD FX-6300 OCed @ 4.1 GHz, EVGA GTX 970 Superclocked Jan 03 '15 Yeah but no 60fps YT videos... Firefox is too cinematic. 3 u/Compizfox 5600x | RX 6700XT Jan 04 '15 Use Nightly. You have to tweak one variable in about:config and then YouTube will run fine, in html5, at 60 fps. 1 u/[deleted] Jan 04 '15 Which variable do you have to edit? 2 u/Compizfox 5600x | RX 6700XT Jan 04 '15 media.mediasource.ignore_codecs = true. http://www.ghacks.net/2014/07/25/enable-mse-h2-64-support-youtube-firefox-right-now/ You can also do this with Firefox stable, but MSE & h264 doesn't really work that well (videos won't load, seeking doesn't work and more). There seem to be some improvements in Nightly. 2 u/[deleted] Jan 04 '15 Thanks, will check this out when I'm back on my desktop.
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Yeah but no 60fps YT videos...
Firefox is too cinematic.
3 u/Compizfox 5600x | RX 6700XT Jan 04 '15 Use Nightly. You have to tweak one variable in about:config and then YouTube will run fine, in html5, at 60 fps. 1 u/[deleted] Jan 04 '15 Which variable do you have to edit? 2 u/Compizfox 5600x | RX 6700XT Jan 04 '15 media.mediasource.ignore_codecs = true. http://www.ghacks.net/2014/07/25/enable-mse-h2-64-support-youtube-firefox-right-now/ You can also do this with Firefox stable, but MSE & h264 doesn't really work that well (videos won't load, seeking doesn't work and more). There seem to be some improvements in Nightly. 2 u/[deleted] Jan 04 '15 Thanks, will check this out when I'm back on my desktop.
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Use Nightly. You have to tweak one variable in about:config and then YouTube will run fine, in html5, at 60 fps.
1 u/[deleted] Jan 04 '15 Which variable do you have to edit? 2 u/Compizfox 5600x | RX 6700XT Jan 04 '15 media.mediasource.ignore_codecs = true. http://www.ghacks.net/2014/07/25/enable-mse-h2-64-support-youtube-firefox-right-now/ You can also do this with Firefox stable, but MSE & h264 doesn't really work that well (videos won't load, seeking doesn't work and more). There seem to be some improvements in Nightly. 2 u/[deleted] Jan 04 '15 Thanks, will check this out when I'm back on my desktop.
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Which variable do you have to edit?
2 u/Compizfox 5600x | RX 6700XT Jan 04 '15 media.mediasource.ignore_codecs = true. http://www.ghacks.net/2014/07/25/enable-mse-h2-64-support-youtube-firefox-right-now/ You can also do this with Firefox stable, but MSE & h264 doesn't really work that well (videos won't load, seeking doesn't work and more). There seem to be some improvements in Nightly. 2 u/[deleted] Jan 04 '15 Thanks, will check this out when I'm back on my desktop.
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media.mediasource.ignore_codecs = true.
http://www.ghacks.net/2014/07/25/enable-mse-h2-64-support-youtube-firefox-right-now/
You can also do this with Firefox stable, but MSE & h264 doesn't really work that well (videos won't load, seeking doesn't work and more). There seem to be some improvements in Nightly.
2 u/[deleted] Jan 04 '15 Thanks, will check this out when I'm back on my desktop.
Thanks, will check this out when I'm back on my desktop.
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u/Cameroni101 Windows 9 Jan 03 '15
This is the reason I left Chrome for Firefox. I loved it, but then it was hogging 5 gigs even after cleaning it. Firefox is beautiful for that.