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Make Youtube think Firefox is Chrome

Ronnie55
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Anyone know the detail on how to do this? Far as I get is general.useragent.override, then all the how to do's stop...that I found

FF is almost useless on YT or at least for me...freezes, buffering, with or without any ad blockers

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Try a user agent switcher extension. Never used them so don't know if they will do what you want but may be worth a try.

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45 minutes ago, Ronnie55 said:

FF is almost useless on YT or at least for me...freezes, buffering, with or without any ad blockers

I use FF all the time on YouTube and it works perfectly fine. So I doubt it's related to the browser or changing its user agent would solve it.

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Maybe download a different browser? I really dont think its a browser problem. Try downloading a different browser and run YT on that. If the same problem persists, then its probably not browser related.

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Chrome and brave seem to work okay

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Just noticed when using the agent switcher I get blocked from some sites including  linustechtips

message saying  "Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed"

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