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playing video on YouTube is always choppy

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dannyalterado
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Always safe and secure d

Always safe and secure d

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AMAN ARYAN
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YouTube prefers a codec that can put heavy stress on your CPU called VP9. You can hide Firefox's ability to handle VP9 so that YouTube gives you H.264/MP4 instead and see whether that resolves it. This extension will do the job:

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/h264ify/