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Re:I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back by asdfasdf1 on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @08:50AM (#42697182)
about youtube being totally unusable on firefox: is it just youtube/google being evil as is customary or also firefox having loads of memory leaks, as its usual too? (plenty of mem leak bugs with video/audio reported over the years, many very recent and still open)
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Re:I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back by danielbln on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @09:15AM (#42697444)
I was about to write that YouTube works flawlessly for me in Firefox on Mac, but I just upgraded to a monster of a M4 MBP, so it's probably just overcoming these issues (malicious or otherwise) via brute force.
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Re:I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back by kome on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @09:32AM (#42697629)
I watch youtube on a 10 years old macbook air 11, and it works flawlessly with firefox and ublock origin.
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Re:I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back by josephd79 on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @09:36AM (#42697686)
I've used firefox for a very long time and have never had an issue with youtube...
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Re:I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back by prmoustache on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @09:36AM (#42697688)
Firefox + ublock origin seems to be the combo allowing me the best user experience with youtube. I have no idea what the previous poster is talking about really.
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Re:I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back by dartos on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @09:00AM (#42697277)
Yes
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Re:I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back by dismalaf on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @09:25AM (#42697561)
YouTube works perfectly on Firefox if you pay for YouTube Premium. Haven't noticed any bugs, if it leaks memory or something it's not noticeable on my machine.
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Re:I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back by EdwardKrayer on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @09:56PM (#42706794)
Firefox+uBO on Fedora/W11 here, with Firefox being my primary browser for close to 8 years. I only run in to an issues maybe once a year, where I have to pop open Edge/Chrome for some random edge cases to work. I've used Firefox on dodgy, overly burdened and hacked together systems with no issues that were memorable.

The only problem I really remember is at one point Firefox having issues under linux when NVIDIA was swapping their main driver over to the "open-sourced" version, there was some performance issues with decoding, not unusable - but it was resolved within a week.

But, this is just my experience.

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