[ndnxhs]

That's because YouTube uses non standard HTML features that only work in chrome and then polyfills it for every other browser so it works like shit unless you use chrome.

[cpeterso]

If YouTube page loads are slow for you in Firefox, you can install the "YouTube Classic" extension to opt-out of YouTube's (2017) Polymer design. This extension doesn't affect video playback, just the page layout.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-class...

[chupasaurus]

Even though it's still not there, YT team is working towards standard compliance [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18053935

[ndnxhs]

Its amazing how low the bar for quality is on major google websites. How did such a broken feature end up running on YouTube for a year?

[M2Ys4U]

Works on Chrome, Google doesn't care about anything else.