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90% of the YouTube videos i watch take 30+ seconds to load before playing, This only happens in firefox.

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As I said in the title, it takes about 30 seconds for most youtube videos to load in firefox (the video time is stuck at 0:00 with the loading circle on a black screen). I have tried other browsers( microsoft edge) and youtube works just fine. I tried reinstalling adobe and firefox but still no fix. I have also cleared my cache/cookies and deselected "use hardware acceleration when available". I noticed this only started to happen after i have updated windows 10. I'd really appreciate any help because this is getting really annoying.

As I said in the title, it takes about 30 seconds for most youtube videos to load in firefox (the video time is stuck at 0:00 with the loading circle on a black screen). I have tried other browsers( microsoft edge) and youtube works just fine. I tried reinstalling adobe and firefox but still no fix. I have also cleared my cache/cookies and deselected "use hardware acceleration when available". I noticed this only started to happen after i have updated windows 10. I'd really appreciate any help because this is getting really annoying.

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I think some people have said this delay occurs when an ad is blocked. I don't know whether that is true, but if you do use an ad blocker, try making an exception for YouTube to see whether that makes any difference.

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Thanks for the help, the flash player works but is there any other way i could use the HTML5 player without the problems? Thank you.

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I think some people have said this delay occurs when an ad is blocked. I don't know whether that is true, but if you do use an ad blocker, try making an exception for YouTube to see whether that makes any difference.

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Wow, i am surprised that adblock actually was the issue, after disabling it all my video were running fine. Thanks for the help!

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Load the web page. After the page is loaded, click the down arrow next to the AdBlock icon. Now select Disable on <website>. Reload the page.