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Gavin77
 
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Post Posted March 28th, 2014, 4:59 pm

I've noticed this happening also.
Using this video for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viTUha-n1_8

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Nx64
 
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Post Posted March 28th, 2014, 5:02 pm

I should also mention that I uninstalled beta version of Flash Player and installed the latest stable version.
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Post Posted March 28th, 2014, 5:44 pm

Gavin77 wrote:I've noticed this happening also.
Using this video for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viTUha-n1_8

Plays fine also Shows and changes quality for me.. FWIW, No HWA or Blocking extensions of any kind on XP
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Post Posted March 29th, 2014, 1:02 am


No problems here. Latest Nightly (32-bit), latest stable Flash Player. I also have Adblock Plus with EasyList+EasyPrivacy, so there's nothing in those subscriptions that would hide those options.
Nx64 wrote:I'm unable to close LastPass toolbar, should I create a new topic for this bug?

That sounds like an extension problem. Only the authors of the extension can update it to work with new versions of Firefox, and most aren't going to do that for pre-release versions like Nightly.
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Post Posted March 29th, 2014, 8:26 am

I've been browsing the Google Product Forums and it seems it's not only Firefox with the quality button problem. There are others using IE and Safari with the same problem so it must be on YouTube's end.
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Post Posted March 29th, 2014, 8:39 am

By the way, deleting all YouTube cookies and logging back in has fixed it. I should have thought of something so obvious earlier :)
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Post Posted March 30th, 2014, 5:16 am

Gavin77 wrote:By the way, deleting all YouTube cookies and logging back in has fixed it. I should have thought of something so obvious earlier :)

Wow... Can't believe I didn't try that. Then again, you should never have to touch cookies and why would they set one that prevents quality settings? Now I wish I had looked more closesly at them before removing all my Youtube cookies.
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Post Posted March 30th, 2014, 4:04 pm

I doubt there is anything in the cookie that does that on purpose, they've probably just changed the format of the cookies (again) and when YouTube is encountering the old format and trying to read your previous volume and quality settings, it is breaking features.
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