>a bug in YouTube's compatibility-autodetection caused it to fall back to a slower
I double it's a bug, it's not the first time it happened, when YT introduced full HTML5 mode, there was a bug that for firefox, and only for firefox youtube was serving video with incompatible codec, the same as for Chrome, but Ff didn't have that codec implemented yet, so video didn't work. Opera was served video same as before, I noticed on reddit and other forums people were complaining on Firefox, that it stopped working on youtube. People started posting "I'm moving to chrome because it works". I think it's a plan to annoy firefox users by serving them not compatible videos so people move to Chrome. Google IS internet.
I double it's a bug, it's not the first time it happened, when YT introduced full HTML5 mode, there was a bug that for firefox, and only for firefox youtube was serving video with incompatible codec, the same as for Chrome, but Ff didn't have that codec implemented yet, so video didn't work. Opera was served video same as before, I noticed on reddit and other forums people were complaining on Firefox, that it stopped working on youtube. People started posting "I'm moving to chrome because it works". I think it's a plan to annoy firefox users by serving them not compatible videos so people move to Chrome. Google IS internet.