How To Set Up Youtube Streaming Quality To Your Default Choice In Firefox and Chrome Browsers.

While streaming music in YouTube is this annoying, as per my opinion, auto streaming quality feature. Whenever I stream, the video quality gets changed on its own from 144p to 240p to 360p to 480p to 720p and higher. I would prefer the youtube streaming quality to be constant 360p or 480p so as to save my bandwidth.

You can achieve that using addons/extensions in both Chrome and Firefox. The addon is called SmartVideo for Youtube.

I will guide you through the installation and settings in case you would need them for both Firefox and Chrome.

Installation

1. If you are using Firefox, you can download the addon using this link: SmartVideo For Youtube

    If you are using Chrome, use this link to download the addon: SmartVideo For Youtube Chrome

2. In both the browsers, you will see "Add to Firefox" or "Add to Chrome". Simply click that link and the addon will be added to your browser.

Set Up Your Default Streaming Quality Choice

1. For Firefox:

go to the extension page or enter about:addons in the address bar and select extensions and then options of SmartVideo For Youtube. Select preferences.  

For Chrome:

enter this chrome://extensions into the address bar to go into the extensions menu. There select options under SmartVideo for Youtube. 

In both cases, the above steps will direct you to the settings page/global preferences page of the addon.

There are screenshots below to guide you.

2. Just like in the picture below, select the quality you would like to set up as default. It is circled/marked in blue color(is that purple?). After choosing your quality choice, you can close the preferences page by pressing the ESC key in your keyboard or by closing the tab.

3. If you think it is not working, then try restarting the browsers. So far everything is working fine in my case.