Raccoonn to [email protected] • 1 year agoGoogle slows down Firefox users when watching YouTube....fosspost.orgexternal-linkmessage-square76fedilinkarrow-up1758arrow-down127file-text
arrow-up1731arrow-down1external-linkGoogle slows down Firefox users when watching YouTube....fosspost.orgRaccoonn to [email protected] • 1 year agomessage-square76fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•1 year agoYes, there is a 5s timeout in youtube’s code. However, it is not aimed at Firefox users. The same code shows up on a fresh chrome installation without any extensions. And the code does not check for the user agent. So the 5s timeout is not there to make Firefox a bad choice for youtube. Following response to your link goes a bit deeper into what the code could mean: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/17ywbjj/whenever_i_open_a_youtube_video_in_a_new_tab_its/ka08uqj/
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•1 year agoThat doesn’t explain why it stops happening when you change your user agent in Firefox.
Yes, there is a 5s timeout in youtube’s code. However, it is not aimed at Firefox users.
The same code shows up on a fresh chrome installation without any extensions. And the code does not check for the user agent. So the 5s timeout is not there to make Firefox a bad choice for youtube. Following response to your link goes a bit deeper into what the code could mean: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/17ywbjj/whenever_i_open_a_youtube_video_in_a_new_tab_its/ka08uqj/
That doesn’t explain why it stops happening when you change your user agent in Firefox.