Re:YouTube change served lower-quality video to Firefox 43 f...
by thawkins on Monday January 11, 2016 @05:12AM
(#10879934)
Never attribute to malevalence what can be explained by incompetance.
Re:YouTube change served lower-quality video to Firefox 43 f...
by digi_owl on Monday January 11, 2016 @06:22AM
(#10880177)
In principle, yes. But when it keeps happening again and again and again, it takes on the appearance of premeditation.
Re:YouTube change served lower-quality video to Firefox 43 f...
by akerro on Monday January 11, 2016 @08:05AM
(#10880533)
So, you're saying that Google doesn't test stuff they push on production?
Re:YouTube change served lower-quality video to Firefox 43 f...
by Uther on Monday January 11, 2016 @09:40AM
(#10880959)
In this case the bug was only for a small subset of the Firefox users (Firefox without x264 support).
It doesn't seems impossible to me they missed this specific case.
Re:YouTube change served lower-quality video to Firefox 43 f...
by Twisell on Monday January 11, 2016 @01:30PM
(#10882151)
Actually for me since about two week the full screen mode in html5 with Safari is quite buggy too. So yeah maybe on this specific realease during holyday season they might have test a little more on different platforms and/or delay this patch.
I double it's a bug, it's not the first time it happened, when YT introduced full HTML5 mode, there was a bug that for firefox, and only for firefox youtube was serving video with incompatible codec, the same as for Chrome, but Ff didn't have that codec implemented yet, so video didn't work. Opera was served video same as before, I noticed on reddit and other forums people were complaining on Firefox, that it stopped working on youtube. People started posting "I'm moving to chrome because it works". I think it's a plan to annoy firefox users by serving them not compatible videos so people move to Chrome. Google IS internet.