Yes. It swaps their positions but they rearrange on browser restart. Since I installed Close Tab to Right first and Discard later, I uninstalled Close Tab and reinstalled it. Same effect. Their positions switch but on a browser restart, they’re back to where they were before all this.
Same. I even came across this comment after doing that. Did everything it said (browser.cache.offline.enable perf wasn’t there for some reason, so I made one) and still no change. Changed the values of perfs mentioned in my post again as well, combined with that comment’s proposed changes but still nothing.
And yeah, it’s 1440p but I’ve tested this on 1080p videos as well. Length of 1440p video is 2-3 mins and the 1080p one is just over 11 mins.
Honestly, I give up at this point. Btw, thank you so much for trying to help.
I didn’t know about that. It does seem small. It’s just 32 MB. So I googled around and
changed browser.cache.memory.capacity value from -1 to 1000000 and changed media.cache_readahead_limit / media.cache_resume_threshold to 999999 but I didn’t notice any difference. Rebuffering still happens.
What I did notice was that after hitting the replay button, if I press right arrow quickly enough to skip forward (40% or more), the buffer reppears and my network activity reflects that.
So it seems to me is that Firefox caches about 60% of the video (latter half) and when you replay it, it starts rebuffering the lost 40% of the first half of the video. I reverted my settings back to default values (the 3 prefs I mentioned above) and it still behaves this way.
You’re supposed to let it play/buffer all the way till the end. Then press replay or when you’re like 50-60% through the video, click on the timeline far enough back i.e < 1 min.
For example, when this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tdiKTSdE9Y finishes playing for me, and I press replay, YouTube starts rebuffering the video from scratch. In Chrome’s case, the buffer is still there.
It’s not, because my CPU supports VP9 hardware decoding.
Yeah. And I actually tried changing user agent with this but still no luck. Tried incognito as well with chrome’s UA. Re-buffers the same as always.
That made it work. Thank you.