You don't need a URL hack or Firefox extension to force YouTube to send you videos in the highest quality that's available: in your Account settings, you can tell YouTube to default to the higher-res, better audio version of clips when they're available. Apparently YouTube automatically detects your connection speed and chooses which video to feed you by default, but if you're always on a fast connection, changing this setting will hook you up straight away.
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I'm not sure if this applies
I'm not sure if this applies to anyone else, but my quality settings do NOT save. After a few hours of having "higher-quality" playback as my default, my settings revert to "choose my video quality dynamically..." and Youtube plays standard quality first. I know that this is not a cookie issue because I remain logged into Youtube; the problem is server-side because my settings reset frequently.
Apparently a few other people are having this problem and have posted on the Youtube community forums but have not yet gotten a response.
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