This extension is a must for weak notebook CPUs that only supports AVC1/H.264 Hardware Decoding.
I also don't know what other people talking about... This addon is giving life on old CPUs systems like Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, Hasswell etc that they only supports AVC1/H.264 hardware decoding. This addon forces Youtube to use AVC1/H.264 instead of VP9 or AV1 codecs. Of course they are some limitation from Youtube, you can only play videos on 1080p@60fps but it's a lot better to use HW decoders than software for many reasons. Of course one CPU with 4cores&4threads like Sandy/Ivy/Hasswell can decode an AV1 4K video in software mode or in VP9 with the perspective bitrate but it will use almost all of the CPU horsepower, meaning you can't do other tasks.The same thing happening with H.264 even at 1080p, the CPU usage will be ~30% with software decoding mode. With hardware decoding the CPU usage drops to ~10%.

Ive played a few videos after installing the add on, and checked stats for nerds which showing the codec as avc1, (which is H.264) so it does appear to be working correctly by blocking VP8, VP9 and AV1

I have no idea what the other reviewers are talking about. Before blaming the app, perhaps you might want to take a look at your firefox's about:support settings and make sure that your settings/OS/drivers aren't blocklisting the h264 functionality. This project has made my old Sandy Bridge i5-2435M, Ivy Bridge i5-3320M and Haswell i7-4960HQ fully USABLE in the year of our lord 2025.

Of course certain iGPUs aren't powerful enough even with AVC decode (thinking about my first gen Arrandale i7-640M) on 1080p, but hell, this thing just works! Thank you for continuing this project Alex.

Thanks to this plugin I was able to resolve iGPU heating issue on MBP 16 2019 which is not capable of natively decoding AV1 content. I needed to disable only AV1 and keep VP9 so I still can play 4k 60fps content.

Great can work on Firefox for Android too

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Works as advertised, can block .h264 to fix issues with AVC1 playback in Firefox.

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Works well on Firefox for Android.