How Netflix works: the stuff that happens when you hit Play

Re:How Netflix works: the stuff that happens when you hit Play by crypt1d on Sunday November 05, 2017 @06:01AM (#15628940)

FWIW, Firefox has been behaving quite weird for me for the last 2-4 weeks (Linux version). It randomly freezes and slows down during page loading, even crashed a few times. Seems to happen mostly when there is some video content on one of the tabs, so I'm blaiming the plugins for now. Kinda sucks because I switched from Chrome few months ago only. I really hope I didn't make a mistake.

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Re:How Netflix works: the stuff that happens when you hit Play by bababooey on Sunday November 05, 2017 @08:20AM (#15629249)

Same thing happened to me last year. I got very hyped up on the switch. But then it turned into hot garbage.

Tried to get support on the firefox subreddit and they told me I shouldn't be using Firefox Beta if I'm not "technically inclined". Okay, so I switched to the normal release and it was too slow for me to even bother. Back to Google...

I'm wondering if their new quantum engine fixes issues. Are you on that newest version?

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Re:How Netflix works: the stuff that happens when you hit Play by JBlue42 on Sunday November 05, 2017 @02:19PM (#15631040)

Have also had issues for a month or so now. Weird stuff like trying to do a search in incognito mode, which should do a Google search, and it spinning forever.

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