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Oh tell me again how it loads faster and takes up less resources (lemmy.ml)
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[–] [email protected] 74 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (27 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure someone discovered that is true recently, but can't be assed to try to find it right now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

They used to also use the unreleased version 0 of shadow DOM for building the Polymer UI, which - being a Chrome-only prototype - understandably didn't work on Firefox, and therefore instead used a really slow Javascript polyfill to render its UI.

I haven't checked on it lately, but I imagine they must've changed at least that by now.

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