Bring back buffering for HTML5 Video

Question

My internet connection is unrealiable out in the boonies.

Ever since a couple years ago, everyone moved to "instant playback" for video.

Now when I pause a video, it won't buffer for more than 15 seconds.

I want to reload/buffer until the end so I can watch the video without interuptions.

How do you bring back buffering? I tried on chrome/firefox/safari, windows mac and linux.

Not a single modern web browser buffers video. I have to go back to super old firefox to do it.

Answer 1

In Firefox:

• Enter about:config in the URL bar and accept the warning.
• Type media.cache in the configuration Search edit to list a few settings.
• Increase media.cache_readhead_limit from the default 60, up to 9999.
• Increase media.cache_resume_treshold from the default 30, up to 9999.