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If there's a backlash, it will just be explained as an "oops," like when Firefox devs catch them doing stuff like this: >https://www.neowin.net/news/mozilla-ex
by 435243543543 6y ago
If there's a backlash, it will just be explained as an "oops," like when Firefox devs catch them doing stuff like this:
>https://www.neowin.net/news/mozilla-executive-claims-that-google-has-made-youtube-slower-on-edge-and-firefox/ https://www.neowin.net/news/mozilla-executive-claims-that-go...
>In a thread on Twitter, Mozilla's Technical Program Manager has stated that YouTube's Polymer redesign relies heavily on the deprecated Shadow DOM v0 API, which is only available in Chrome. This in turn makes the site around five times slower on competing browsers such as Microsoft Edge and Mozila Firefox. He went on to say that:
>>YouTube serves a Shadow DOM polyfill to Firefox and Edge that is, unsurprisingly, slower than Chrome's native implementation. On my laptop, initial page load takes 5 seconds with the polyfill vs 1 without. Subsequent page navigation perf is comparable.
- Sunspark 6y agoI worked around this problem in Firefox by changing the browser useragent for the YouTube site to an older version # though the fix won't last forever. I have become accustomed to using multiple browsers and OSes simply because of all the issues surrounding video playback.
- swiley 6y agoI worked around this by removing YouTube from my life. I've been making much more progress on my personal projects since.
- pmlnr 6y agoI simply accepted it loads slower. It's long bad if I don't have 5s to wait.
- 4f8fje9frn 6y agoIf I need youtube, I go to an invidious instance first.