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Google may yet be forced to divest from Chrome as a result of the recent judgement.
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Starting today, YouTube is almost unusable on Firefox
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Re: Starting today, YouTube is almost unusable on Firefox
#72I found it freezes every 60 seconds, and I just click the "Share" button and "Starting at", and copied the time into the URL and reload the page... then it works. After a few times I got into the habit of "increment seconds by 60, reload page". I don't know why it has to be so hard, I seldom to never go to YouTube now because of how badly it works. Feels super anti-competitive to own YouTube and Chrome, and to punish…
Might as well just download videos and watch them later.
The one thing you lose I guess is discovery, but the algorithm is so volatile that maybe that's not the worst thing in the world.
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#74Google docs blocks the ability to print in firefox, it will instead always save as pdf. Google doesnt even try to hide its anticompetitive practices at this point.
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#75Can confirm. Google is a new Microsoft, they leverage their position to cross promote their shit browser and their shit data stealing services. Sorry guys, if your data collection website doesn't work well with Firefox and uBlock Origin, I just won't use it.
Thank heavens there is https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
if only this existed for meetings
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#76going by Hanlon's Razor, i would guess that this is merely the result of an engineering update that nobody bothered to QA on Firefox rather than a malicious attack on a single browser that isn't _really_ winning market share let's not assume Google malice is _too_ competent
Still they shouldn't let this happen considering their antitrust scrutiny
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#77with ublock i never had problems and no ads either
I have occasionally run into a weird issue when I jump from one video to another - Video 1's title, comments and description (and maybe its recommendations?) will be displayed but Video 2 will play in the container. Load times are also wonky, but that's about it.
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#78Seems to be okay for me on FF 129.0.2 + uBlock Origin, running on Windows 11. Looking through the Reddit comments, users running older versions of FF may be affected? Seeing a few people commenting that they're seeing this YT issue with v88, 110, 115 ESR and 121.
Same here, with the caveat that Google has managed to successfully bully me into paying for Premium some time ago. Not sure if any Premium users are affected.
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#79Works fine for me. Firefox on Linux.
Same for me.
I have yt premium + ublock origin, perhaps this is related to their war non premium users having adblock.
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#80Imo, it's just too difficult to maintain compatibility through a natural language specification. Things like browsers need some kind of open source reference implementation to act as a spec to maintain interoperability. https://benoitessiambre.com/specification.html
It existed and was called Amaya.[1] Unfortunately it was way too expensive to keep it up to date with the ever-evolving specifications, and slowing down spec development was a non-starter. So it was canned. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaya_(web_editor)
WSYIWYG web editing seems to be impossible. CMS systems seem to have mostly given up on interactive HTML editors and switched to things like markdown.
I want to like Dreamweaver but whenever I try to use it there is a 1-2 sec delay between me typing text in and it appearing on the screen.
Most HTML editors behave like they are possessed by the devil: try to select the text in an and somehow it either selects everything but the first character or it selects all the text before the and also the .