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Re:Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox by 323 on Saturday May 28, 2022 @07:41AM (#31539525)
Firefox is my main browser for many years now, but there are two categories of sites that I only open in Chrome:

Video heavy sites, especially YouTube. It loads extremely slowly compared to Chrome. And has much more video stuttering. Probably Google is sabotaging YouTube in Firefox.

Complex interactive sites, like crypto exchanges. They are slow and with many rendering artefacts in Firefox. Probably because they don't even bother testing in Firefox.

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Re:Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox by nemetroid on Saturday May 28, 2022 @08:20AM (#31539749)
> Video heavy sites, especially YouTube. It loads extremely slowly compared to Chrome. And has much more video stuttering.

I recently had similar issues, and it turned out that Firefox’s cache was constantly nearly-full. Clearing the cache returned YouTube to normal.

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Re:Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox by whoisthemachine on Saturday May 28, 2022 @09:37AM (#31540227)
Ah yes, cache eviction, one of two hard problems in computer science...
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Re:Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox by guerrilla on Saturday May 28, 2022 @08:08AM (#31539671)
> Video heavy sites, especially YouTube. It loads extremely slowly compared to Chrome. And has much more video stuttering. Probably Google is sabotaging YouTube in Firefox.

Hmmm... I've never had this problem and I use YouTube heavily. You sure your video acceleration and codecs and all that are set up right?

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Re:Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox by ris58h on Saturday May 28, 2022 @10:15AM (#31540497)
It's a known issue https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1658392 I have a laptop with Intel HD graphics and Firefox can't play fullhd video on x2 speed. It freezes every second. Chrome on the same machine plays the same video flawlessly.
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Re:Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox by wildrhythms on Saturday May 28, 2022 @08:23AM (#31539769)
How does one 'set up' video acceleration and codecs?
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Re:Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox by guerrilla on Saturday May 28, 2022 @08:40AM (#31539870)
I don't remember but I had to enable something in FF for acceleration at one point and I assume you'd have to have the right codecs installed. This is on Arch Linux.
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Re:Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox by robonerd on Saturday May 28, 2022 @01:25PM (#31542073)
> Video heavy sites, especially YouTube.

Right-click -> Open With mpv

It's a pain in the ass, but the performance gap is immense. On a desktop I wouldn't bother, but on my laptop this has a real impact on battery life.

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Re:Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox by sharno on Sunday May 29, 2022 @12:33AM (#31546413)
Do you need a special addon to do so? Or does it show up if you have both apps installed?
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Re:Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox by robonerd on Sunday May 29, 2022 @01:43PM (#31551062)
You need an extension and some sort of shim script for it to work, but it's well worth it in my opinion.
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Re:Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox by cassepipe on Saturday May 28, 2022 @01:19PM (#31542029)
I was wondering if it was still possible to stream a youtube video out in VLC of if it has been made impossible
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Re:Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox by freebuju on Saturday May 28, 2022 @01:43PM (#31542229)
It has always been possible to open YouTube links on VLC. If you want to do so with even less clicks from your browser, there's a open with mpv extension. Can't link it now as am on mobile.
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