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Well Youtube performance used to suck under Firefox as well to the point that I felt that running youtube without the addon "Youtube Classic" in firefox was unb

Well Youtube performance used to suck under Firefox as well to the point that I felt that running youtube without the addon "Youtube Classic" in firefox was unbearable. I still run Youtube Classic.

Bayart 8y ago
Playback or rendering ? I know my browser has performance issues because it doesn't have hardware-accelerated playback for VP9, I don't know if FF is in the same basket (sounds like it might be). Having an addon that only enables h264 solves that.
- PlutoIsAPlanet 8y ago
  Afaik YouTube uses user agent sniffing to use slower functions for Firefox.
  - krzyk 8y ago
    YouTube started using Shadow DOM V0 (which is deprecated) some time ago, which is implemented only in Chrome/Chromium, as a result all other browsers render it slower.
    - vezycash 8y ago
      Google also blocked Windows Phone from Google maps. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/01/google-maps-windows-phone-and-an-avoidable-mess/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/01/google-maps-windows-...
      - zmonkeyz 8y ago
        Not to mention pulling the Windows Phone Youtube app that Microsoft wrote because it wasnt made with html5. Nevermind that the android or iphone app didnt support it either.
        mscasts 8y ago
        They also are still blocking pretty much all browsers except Chrome from Google Hangouts.
- mscasts 8y ago
  Both but mainly playback.