From Newsgroup: alt.comp.software.firefox

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sun, 14 Sep 2025 18:47:36 +0100, "J. P.
Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:

On 2025/9/14 17:14:0, Andy Burns wrote:

micky wrote:

if you want to
see comments, you have to scroll down 17 screen to get to them,

So far this has only affected my win11 computer and not either of the
win10 ones.

I highly doubt it's the Win11-ness causing that; mine doesn't do it in
Firefox or Edge, I don't think you can even try to "pull-the-wool" over
YouTube's eyes, because there's no distinction in the browser
user-agent: between win10 and win11 ...

I agree with Andy: there's probably a setting for the size of video
previews somewhere,

Ah, that makes sense. The previews got so big they forced the comments
17 screens down.

Googling "setting for the size of video previews firefox" let to https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1k7dir8/is_there_an_addon_for_resizing_youtube_thumbnails/
Where a guy writes 5 months ago, "on desktop, in all browsers, recently
youtube made the thumbnails on my pages stupidly large,... is there a
way to have smaller previews? (other than zooming out, it makes the
menus unreadable)
i get the impression they are doing a staggered rollout of this new
"feature", there are some month old posts complaining about it, but it
still seems rare "

And the answers give 2 or 3 methods including uBlock-origin, that I've
thought about installing again (but do not have running anywhere now.
That's not the reason it works right elsewhere.)

which you've accidentally changed (or which YouTube
have kindly changed for you - possibly that _did_ happen when they

I didn't change anything. Just like youtube police videos where all
people the police stop say, I didn't do anything.

detected your change of OS). Rather like the view options in File
Explorer - from Extra large icons down.

If you can't find such a setting, ask ChatGPT or one of his pals; he
might well know where it is. I've found him not only knowledgeable about >settings (OK, in my case it was in Windows, not YouTube), but also
pretty good at explaining how to get to them.

Thanks. It will take a while to work on this.
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From Newsgroup: alt.comp.software.firefox

In alt.comp.os.windows-11, on Sun, 14 Sep 2025 18:47:36 +0100, "J. P.
Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:

I agree with Andy: there's probably a setting for the size of video
previews somewhere, which you've accidentally changed (or which YouTube
have kindly changed for you - possibly that _did_ happen when they
detected your change of OS)

I don't think I'm logged into Mozilla, so it would not know if I'd
changed OS.

Everyone likes uBlock-origin, but I still thought I'd look for a Firefox setting, and after searching on thumbnail and preview, I looked at the
list of already "modified preferences".

Amazingly, there are about 300 already modified preferences, even though
this is a new installation of FF and I've not consciously modified more
than one or two. And even if it does know about my previous versions,
they didn't have more than 5 or 10. Wait, I did set 10 or 20 urls in
my array of icons for a new Firefox tab. That's called browser,newtabpage.pinned, but they are all in one item.
And I guess I made some other changes in the regular settings, but still
250 of these, I never changed. FF must have.

Many names are ambiguous and hard to concentrate on 300 items, but I
didn't find anything that seemed related.

. Rather like the view options in File
Explorer - from Extra large icons down.

If you can't find such a setting, ask ChatGPT or one of his pals; he
might well know where it is. I've found him not only knowledgeable about >settings (OK, in my case it was in Windows, not YouTube), but also
pretty good at explaining how to get to them.

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