I recently read that Firefox improved it's HTML5 video support, so I thought I gave it a go again, because I am not a fan of Flash. It works fairly well, but unfortunately the videos are limited to 360p only.
Are there any settings to be made or is this it?
Answer
Ok, a friend was also experiencing the same issue and this apparently helped:
Go to https://www.youtube.com/html5
Ensure MSE i.e. Media Source Extensions (required for MPEG-DASH i.e. adaptive streaming) and H.264/WebM are supported by your browser († see below for more). Also if you right click any video and select Stats for nerds you can see whether DASH is supported or not:
Click the Request the HTML5 player button:
Now you should see this and can try viewing videos at resolutions above 360p:
† To enable MSE in Firefox go to about:config and ensure all of the following are set to True:
media.mediasource.enabled
media.mediasource.youtubeonly
media.mediasource.mp4.enabled
media.mediasource.webm.enabled
media.fragmented-mp4.exposed
media.fragmented-mp4.ffmpeg.enabled
(Actually even if either MP4 or WEBM is enabled that should suffice, but if one doesn't work try enabling the other.)
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