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Re:I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back by Timshel on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @09:21AM (#42697504)
> Currently the main attack facing Firefox is coming from advertising companies such as YouTube.

While I agree; between an up-to-date uBlock Origin and https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/chrome-mask YT is quite usable.

Long term I'm more worried by Mozilla leadership than Google shenanigans.

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Re:I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back by normie3000 on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @09:26AM (#42697578)
From your link:

> Please don't use Chrome Mask on YouTube. It won't resolve any issues, and it will make your experience worse over time. If some issue got fixed after toggling Chrome Mask on, it most likely got fixed by the addon clearing the cache. But you can do that yourself, too, without the need for this addon.

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Re:I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back by Timshel on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @09:51AM (#42697869)
I can't seem to find your citation from the add-on page.

Might be a placebo but YT appear more responsive with it on than off after a ctrl+f5.

Edit: appears to be in the reviews: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-mask/r...

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Re:I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back by inferiorhuman on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @11:15PM (#42707236) 

  YT is quite usable
Ehh. Youtube has been problematic for 3 or 4 Firefox versions now. If you leave a video open long enough memory usage skyrockets and the page becomes unresponsive.

Supposedly it's just been fixed?

https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1i182q7/firefox_13...

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