I’ve definitely noticed issues with YouTube on Firefox where a video will start buffering for ages, but I’ve chalked that up to YouTube and uBlock Origin breaking each other. Quite often it’s been a better experience to just use mpv (yt-dlp) instead of the website. Haven’t tried it on Chrome though.
Ask HN: Is Google deliberately breaking Firefox?
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#12I use Firefox for most things at home, including a lot of browsing YouTube. I don't have the issues you're describing. Though I am on YT Premium and use uBlock.
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#13Malice, incompetence... Every team has a mountain of bugs screaming for their attention and a director losing their mind over AI. And no one gets promoted for fixing bugs anymore.
> Every team has a mountain of bugs screaming for their attention and a director losing their mind over AI.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
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#14The Google Cloud web interface is horribly slow for me in Firefox. For instance, while filtering logs, it can take a few seconds for my keystrokes to show up. This is the only website I've noticed performing poorly like this.
Dear god that website is slow as molasses for almost anything. So frustrating to use.
Re: Ask HN: Is Google deliberately breaking Firefox?
#15Something to note is there is a thousand of experiments running on YouTube at the same time. They test a lot of stuff directly on users. Try VPN, change user agent and/or open in private browsing mode to get a different set of feature flags.
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#16I have not noticed issues with YouTube, but it's been clear to me how gimped Firefox is compared with Chrome on Google Meet. Some missing minor features, sluggish performance and lower streaming quality to name a few.
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#17There's a known buffering issue with YouTube on Firefox. Apparently it's been fixed and will ship in the next point release:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1878510#c114
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1djkdql/for_people...
According to the reddit comments it's a broken implementation by Google that doesn't trip up Chrome.
Re: Ask HN: Is Google deliberately breaking Firefox?
#18Usually I have zero issues with Google Docs (which I only use because of my company) or Youtube (which is use quite rarely). I'm using uBlock though, not sure if it makes any difference. Never used Google Photos.
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#19I have not noticed issues with YouTube, but it's been clear to me how gimped Firefox is compared with Chrome on Google Meet. Some missing minor features, sluggish performance and lower streaming quality to name a few.
They did recently (last 6-12 months) add virtual backgrounds to Meet in FF, and it feels fine now. That said I only use Meet on FF and Safari so maybe I don't know what I'm missing out on.
Re: Ask HN: Is Google deliberately breaking Firefox?
#20The Google Cloud web interface is horribly slow for me in Firefox. For instance, while filtering logs, it can take a few seconds for my keystrokes to show up. This is the only website I've noticed performing poorly like this.
Same. Disabling DarkReader extension made it a bit more tolerable.
For anything other than logs, I just use the Lens desktop app.