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by nacs 2627 days ago
I've been playing 1080p (and higher, like 1440p) Youtube videos on Linux without issues.
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If you have the CPU power to waste then maybe yeah, it plays, but it's not possible with my hardware.
My video is definitely hardware (GPU) accelerated. If you don’t have working hardware acceleration in Firefox for videos/WebGL, there’s something wrong with your setup, it’s not a FF problem.

I and many others in this thread have no issue with this in FF.

"It works on my machine", really?!

There's nothing wrong with my setup, there are numerous issues open on FF Issue tracker about this s*.