Ask HN: New YouTube player not working in Firefox

2 pointsposted 9 hours ago
by gethly

Item id: 45643726

7 Comments

Bender

5 hours ago

Try 140.4.0 ESR as a work around to give them time to figure out what they broke unless you depend on a feature in 144. [1] Works for me on Linux and Windows. Or try starting 144 in safe mode to disable all addons as a test.

[1] - https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/140.4.0esr/

gethly

4 hours ago

I signed out, flushed all data, disabled all extension but it did not help.

Incognito mode works though..

Hmm.. in normal mode, I see that https://rr5---sn-t0a7ln7d.googlevideo.com is called but gets ns_error_unknown_host but in incognito mode rr5 is not called and all works. Changing to dns over https did not help. But I heard about the AWS outage today and that it has something to do with DNS so i think there's the issue. Though am not sure why incognito works.

Bender

4 hours ago

The only other thing I could suggest is use the web console network tab to see what requests may be hanging or timing out when not in Incognito mode.

glenstein

9 hours ago

Works for me on Firefox for Android with version 143.0.4. And I just updated to 144.0 and tried again, and that is working also.

gethly

8 hours ago

Phone is not a problem, desktop is.

glenstein

7 hours ago

Just had a chance to try version 144.0 for desktop on Windows, and that's working for me also.

samoit

8 hours ago

I also have problems with Firefox. I guess it is something Google related...