I noticed this myself as I had been using Firefox with ublock to mostly listen to music on youtube.
It seems like there's a sometimes-auto-downgrading where any video above 360 p gets throttled and causes buffering. I've recently been trying out a Chrome extension called Clear Skies which has been working well. It's not an adblocker but it does hide and skip ads and avoids the performance hit that I was seeing previously when viewing youtube with Firefox.
Because the overall button is disabled you can click the little clock icons next to each category which forces an immediate refresh. This will sometimes pick up new signatures that haven't crossed the threshold for the "time to check for updates" refresh timer.
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I've been wondering why my firefox has been so laggy on youtube but didn't put it together.
I noticed this myself as I had been using Firefox with ublock to mostly listen to music on youtube.
It seems like there's a sometimes-auto-downgrading where any video above 360 p gets throttled and causes buffering. I've recently been trying out a Chrome extension called Clear Skies which has been working well. It's not an adblocker but it does hide and skip ads and avoids the performance hit that I was seeing previously when viewing youtube with Firefox.
I immediately went to refresh my adblocker signatures.
How would one do that.
By clicking 'update now' as visible in the screenshot there: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dashboard:-Filter-lis...
Because the overall button is disabled you can click the little clock icons next to each category which forces an immediate refresh. This will sometimes pick up new signatures that haven't crossed the threshold for the "time to check for updates" refresh timer.