Fix for youtube on latest version for Windows 64 bit Palemoon

[unholysoda]

Hi all,

I had problems with youtube not loading, probably due to a 'TypeError: window.customElements is undefined' error.
After some google-fu I found the following fix:

change
general.useragent.override.youtube.com
from:
Mozilla/5.0 (%OS_SLICE% rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0
to:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:60.9) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.9

I found the fix through some possibly unrelated other issue:
https://github.com/Financial-Times/poly ... r/issues/7

No idea of any of that is relevant, but thought I'd share it as well.
Might as well have been a lucky shot, not a webdev / browserdev

I suppose Windows NT 6.1 can be generalized to %OS_SLICE%, but what do I know...
This worked for me and I thought I'd share it here.

[franstam]

Thats very interesting, i was still having the youtube appearing blank for me issue here viewtopic.php?p=204151#p204151 seems to be fixed with your advice... thanks!

[Moonchild]

I still don't understand why people are having this issue -- YouTube is displaying just fine here with the default override that has been in place for quite a while. No matter if I'm logged in or out, etc. -- It's weird that a .9 would work and a .0 not, unless they are making .9 perhaps "unknown" now to serve fallback code? But then that would still not explain why my default override works.

[badnick]

Youtube works for me with the default "general.useragent.override" since it was implemented, no matter what Pale Moon updates.

[Night Wing]

After reading this topic thread, I switched over to my (although I don't use it very much anymore since the operating system has reached end of life) 64 bit Windows 7 hard drive and 64 bit windows Pale Moon 28.16.0 has no problems when I'm visiting YouTube using the default setting for YouTube.

[ron_1]

FWIW, the first time I went to youtube after installing 28.16 it did act weird. First it didn't want to load the video, then it started playing it in a little box at the bottom right of the screen. Finally after clicking around a bit, it started working as usual, and has been working since.

Youtube has been loading (I mean youtube pages, not videos) somewhat slowly, i.e., it freezes a few seconds, before it finally does load. It's been doing this since at least version 28.15.

[wickedsp1d3r]

Youtube has been loading (I mean youtube pages, not videos) somewhat slowly, i.e., it freezes a few seconds, before it finally does load. It's been doing this since at least version 28.15.

Same. I think the new YouTube has always been sluggish with Pale Moon. Is there anything that could be done to prevent it?

[THX-1139]

That is not what I am experiencing at all; Youtube pages and videos load very fast for me, it's surprising to me just how fast it is with all the stuff they want to
load on, and I also have no problems with ram usage (remains nominal) using Pale Moon with many YT, Bitchute, and other tab/pages loaded.
I certainly don't need a "fix". *shrugs