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> Is it a deliberate attempt by Google to force people to Chrome? For the last several months, the YouTube player takes me several seconds to load on Firefox a
by debugnik 2y ago
> Is it a deliberate attempt by Google to force people to Chrome?
For the last several months, the YouTube player takes me several seconds to load on Firefox and freezes on me for a couple of seconds every other time I press play/pause...
And changing the user agent fixed it! So I say yes. But I found the extensions to do so quite clunky so I gave up.
- Animats 2y ago> And changing the user agent fixed it! Send a note about that to the legal team at the Department of Justice managing the Google antitrust lawsuit.[1] [1] https://apnews.com/article/google-search-antitrust-case-59114d8bf1dc4c8453c08acaa4051f14 https://apnews.com/article/google-search-antitrust-case-5911...
- recursive 2y agoThis is really annoying when it happens. Next time it starts, I'll definitely try the user agent thing. When loading youtube, when this is happening, (and sometimes it doesn't) the whole page locks up for a few seconds half-way through loading/rendering/hydrating. After that, it seems to do a CSS recalc/reflow. While waiting, it's impossible to do anything.