You haven’t experienced slow until you try to take Firefox through Google Cloud Console or Search Tools. 15 seconds in Chrome, somehow turns into 3 minutes in Firefox, funny how it does that.
Ironically I use a chrome type browser for YouTube and mail checking only. This is also the only browser in which I am logged in with my Google account.
My main Firefox is for everything else including search.
I love Firefox, but I can’t shake the feeling that it is slower on YouTube. My tinfoil hat theory is that Google somehow throttles YouTube on Firefox.
I’m pretty sure someone discovered that is true recently, but can’t be assed to try to find it right now.
Here you go:
https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/17z8hsz/youtube_has_started_to_artificially_slow_down/
You haven’t experienced slow until you try to take Firefox through Google Cloud Console or Search Tools. 15 seconds in Chrome, somehow turns into 3 minutes in Firefox, funny how it does that.
For YouTube on IOS, I use Brave. It does a decent (but not perfect) job of hiding ads on YT.
Same happens with Safari. The page loads in a weird funky way, video sorta first and then comments and suggestions many seconds later.
On Chrome on the exact same computer it’s instant.
They’re doing it on purpose.
Because they do. A while back, it was discovered they were injecting delays if they detected Firefox as your user agent.
Do you use YouTube so much that a small performance difference on a single Site has an influence on your browser choice?
Google definitely did extend video loading times on FF a while ago, not sure if they still do it.
Ironically I use a chrome type browser for YouTube and mail checking only. This is also the only browser in which I am logged in with my Google account.
My main Firefox is for everything else including search.
Firefox is good for webpages not web apps
A web app is just a fancy name for a dynamic web page. Change my mind.
Umm yeah? Like I do like access to collaborative software within browser so that’s kind of important.