Is anyone able to get youtube to play at higher resolution?

[morgandawn]

Right now, it all defaults to their html5 viewer which only supports 360p (unless the vid was encoded in 720p). I am trying extensions FLV for both Firefox  and Chrome and they won't play 480p.  It is as if that resolution has vanished.

edited to add: this may be a Firefox problem. I can see 480p on Chrome (but of course Google has disabled any video  downloads on Chrome)
but they've disabled audio on any 480p downloads by separating out the streams.

Comments

[klia]

This is one of the reasons I don't update browsers unless forced. I'm using FF 17.0.1 (the latest is 38.0.5) and can still see the quality drop-down box. And I just dl'd a 720p mp4 video from YT of the two Metallica guys playing the national anthem at last night's NBA finals game.

Can I also say how much I hate that YouTube always seems to default to the worst possible quality? I know most users probably don't notice, and it saves bandwidth, but... ecccchhh.