h264ify stopped working on FireFox

[OutsideFate]

FireFox 123.0.1 (64-bit), the plug-in has stopped functioning recently, and the H264 override in another plug-in (Enhancer for YouTube) also fails. It looks like a back-end YouTube update has borked whatever method both plug-ins used to override the default V9 encoder.

My laptop, while nowhere near bad, always overheats and shuts down while playing YouTube videos specifically unless I crank the fan speed to maximum without the plugin.

Sadly, while this thing is pretty powerful for a laptop, it doesn't properly support the VP8/VP9 video codec and will consistently spike CPU temperatures to the point my laptop automatically shuts down. This isn't a problem with any other video player, online or offline.

My specs are:

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz 2.20 GHz

RAM: 16 GB DDR5

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (12120 MB memory, 4018 MB VRAM, 8102 MB Shared Memory)

[eugenesan]

I can confirm. It stopped working on Firefox 123/124 and Chrome 123.

[vitaly-zdanevich]

Any alternatives?

[vitaly-zdanevich]

Looks like this is an alternative solution https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-addon