Some recent changes by Google in Youtube's way to serve the videos has affected both the download speed and loading times of the videos. For example the videos do not keep loading in the background while they are paused. Also, even if you change the quality of the video yourself, Youtube mischieviously (and without any notification/consent of any kind) changes the quality to lowest possible if you have a slower internet connection!
This sort of "trolling" is really very annoying and there are no replies whatsoever on the Google groups site from ANY Google representative on why this happens. Apparently, Google thinks you have a 100 Mbps internet connection and you only play 1080p videos without requiring any break for buffering :D
Considering, this ridiculous situation a Firefox addon developer YePpHa has created a marvelous extension called "Youtube Center" that is available here. This addon provides lots of customizations.
For example to make Youtube load videos in the background while paused do this: (a) Open this addon's preferences (b) Click the "Player" section and uncheck the "DASH Playback" option. There are many other customizations that I am sure you can find out after little tinkering with it :) So have fun!
This sort of "trolling" is really very annoying and there are no replies whatsoever on the Google groups site from ANY Google representative on why this happens. Apparently, Google thinks you have a 100 Mbps internet connection and you only play 1080p videos without requiring any break for buffering :D
For example to make Youtube load videos in the background while paused do this: (a) Open this addon's preferences (b) Click the "Player" section and uncheck the "DASH Playback" option. There are many other customizations that I am sure you can find out after little tinkering with it :) So have fun!
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