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Google Has Made YouTube Slower on Edge and Firefox, Mozilla Alleges (neowin.net)

Posted by msmash on from the interesting-insights dept.

Usama Jawad, writing for Neowin: Early last year, YouTube received a design refresh with Google's own Polymer library which enabled "quicker feature development" for the platform. Now, a Mozilla executive is claiming that Google has made YouTube slower on Edge and Firefox by using this framework. 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 Mozilla Firefox. Further reading: Safari Users Unable to Play Newer 4K Video On YouTube in Native Resolution.

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  1. Chrome is the new IE 6 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Long live IE6

    1. Re: Chrome is the new IE 6 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      But it sure made it easy to install some for you!

  2. Fight back - make your site slow too by raymorris · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm going to give Google a taste of their own medicine and make my site slow too. CNN is leading the fight in this; their site is super slow in all the major browsers.

    1. Re:Fight back - make your site slow too by liquid_schwartz · · Score: 1, Funny

      CNN is leading the fight in this; their site is super slow in all the major browsers.

      Since the only thing worse than fake news is ... slow fake news