Fedora 39 does not load youtube

I have the Internet, speedtest is working, everything is working, except for launching video/audio on Youtube, Spotify, and other services.
Please help me.

“Fedora does not load Youtube” makes little sense.

“Your current Fedora Desktop, using Video Codecs X and Browser Y does not play youtube videos” would be a way that is understandable and allows people to help you.

It could be media playback problems, due to missing Codecs. Fedora can’t fix this, but installing third party codecs is done in Fedora Workstation automatically afaik, manually like this:

sudo dnf install -y https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

sudo dnf install -y libavcodec-freeworld

This assumes you use the preinstalled Firefox and dont use a (bad) Adblocker (Ublock Origin is said to work, but I recommend Freetube).

It may also be something else, so please add infos. Here is a general bug report guide:


  1. This is not working: App, special settings, Fedora Version
  2. App version with rpm -qa | grep APP (or various ways in the apps settings)
  3. Is this happening only on a custom profile? try to reset settings, in Firefox that would be firefox -p and create a blank new profile
  4. Search the internet before opening issue reports. “Youtube not playing on Fedora” is a pretty common issue.

The loading wheel spins, but nothing happens, and so on ad infinitum. This happens in any browser in any profile. (FireFox, Yandex Browser).


Can it be related to adblock ?
I had some similar issues recently.
I think I fixed that by logging out from my google account and then loggin back.

You did not yet answer the other questions. Do you have the Codecs installed?

Did you try Flathub Firefox?

flatpak remote-add flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak install -y flathub firefox
flatpak run org.mozilla.firefox https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ