Ubuntu – Video quality on Youtube (Firefox) is limited to 360p

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I'm finding that the video quality setting on Youtube videos only has the options "Auto" and "360p". My browser is Firefox 37.0.1 and I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64 bit, and my motherboard chip-set is Intel 965GM (I believe) and is using Xorg open source driver.

Additionally, I have higher quality options available in the dedicated Youtube application from the Ubuntu software center, however I would prefer to use my browser.

Any advice on how to enable higher quality settings would certainly be appreciated!

sudo lshw -class display returns:

*-display

       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary)
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 0c
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
       resources: irq:43 memory:f6e00000-f6efffff memory:e0000000-efffffff ioport:efe8(size=8)



*-display
       description: Display controller
       product: Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (secondary)
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2.1
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.1
       version: 0c
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:f6f00000-f6ffffff

Best Answer

My browser is Firefox 37.0.1 and I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS I have numerous quality options available ranging from 144p all the way up to 1080p in the browser. All I've ever needed to do is install Adobe Flash plugin from the software center here:

flashplugininstaller

If this solution doesn't work for you, drop a comment letting me know and include the output I requested and I will edit my answer.

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