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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. Pornhub vs Youtube by sycodon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Pornhub wins every time.

    Loading speed, Video smoothness, lack of interruption.

    Every time Youtube content gets the spinning circle, I check Pornhub...Yep, smooth as silk, or a freshly shaven...

    Then YouTube tries to blame my provider.

    Pornhub is the Future of the Internet!

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    1. Re:Pornhub vs Youtube by Kokuyo · · Score: 5, Insightful

      There's a reason gun enthusiasts have started using pornhub instead of youtube ;).

  2. Re: Shadow DOM is a W3C standard by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    No, I'm saying this isn't an instance of it. Firefox is literally saying "stop using a published W3C standard we don't support because using it makes Chrome faster than Firefox." They're saying Google should artificially slow down YouTube to match Firefox rather than implementing the published Shadow DOM standard.

  3. Re:Chrome is the new IE 6 by KiloByte · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, one thing IE6 wasn't: Spyware.

    IE was wide open to spyware, but technology marches on: Chrome has it integrated!

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  4. Re:Chrome is the new IE 6 by KiloByte · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Please read the summary: YouTube uses something that has never been a standard, it was merely a basis for a prepared standard. Think of Microsoft Office vs what they submitted as OOXML.

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