YouTube change served lower-quality video to Firefox 43 for 2 weeks

Re:YouTube change served lower-quality video to Firefox 43 f... by DannyBee on Sunday January 10, 2016 @11:26PM (#10878803)

"They took two weeks to deploy the fix. Considering those two weeks included Christmas and the bug didn't affect security or render the site unavailable, this seems like a pretty good response time."

Note that plenty of smart companies have things like production freezes at holiday times :)

So this is not entirely surprising.

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Re:YouTube change served lower-quality video to Firefox 43 f... by pcwalton on Monday January 11, 2016 @01:38AM (#10879204)

If bugs can't be fixed during a time frame, then I'd think new features shouldn't be rolled out during that time frame either.

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Re:YouTube change served lower-quality video to Firefox 43 f... by DannyBee on Monday January 11, 2016 @05:12PM (#10883998)

They generally aren't. The freezes are real freezes: New software releases are not rolled out during that time period, be they new features of bugs.

(they are always exceptions in any of the companies i've been in, but that's been the rule)

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Re:YouTube change served lower-quality video to Firefox 43 f... by zobzu on Monday January 11, 2016 @01:50AM (#10879242)

1) break everything 2) change freeze 3) ??? Profit

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