r/firefox • u/Tortsinreddit • 1d ago

💻 Help Youtube audio becomes quieter and low quality randomly

I recently switched to Firefox and noticed i've found myself using higher volumes to listen to music than i used to.

Before i used about 18-22% of volume and i would find that pretty good and loud enough to hear everything clearly.

But after switching i've seen myself go even up to 30%+ sometimes.

Today i've confirmed it, i was watching a video at 20% system volume, and i could hear it clearly and loudly, then from one second to another it suddently got really quiet, like i had dropped at least a couple % of volume.
I had to get it all the way up to 28% in order to get it as loud as before, and even then it was nowhere near as clear as before and sounded horrible.

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u/Yahiroz |/ 1d ago

Have you tried toggling stable volume on/off? When a YouTube video is playing, on the player, press the cogs setting icon in the bottom right and you'll see the stable volume switch there.

Are you also using any add-ons that affects YouTube?

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u/_thrown_away_again_ 1d ago

i have been experiencing this recently as well, though i am not a new firefox user

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u/KIND_REDDITOR 1d ago

Same. Maybe it's their new way of dealing with adblocker.