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by yumraj 1 day ago
Such as?
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HDBaseT 1 day ago
YouTube is an example of a site that Firefox has trouble handling.

Unsure if its a Firefox bug, Google pushing nonsense or uBlock Origin but constantly the YouTube UI Lags, video playback buffers, freeze, etc. Some days its near unuseable on Firefox, but I push through.

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tremon 5 hours ago
> YouTube is an example of a site that Firefox has trouble handling

That's fully on Google. I use plenty of other streaming sites where Firefox handles full-screen video just fine. Coming from the web search company that penalizes the rest of the Internet for slow-loading pages, Youtube is basically an embarrassment and I'm convinced this is completely intentional.

It's gotten so bad that I don't even try to watch Youtube in-browser any more; when someone posts a link that I think might be worth the effort, it goes straight into youtube-dl and I'll watch it offline or not at all.

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packetlost 1 day ago
accuweather.com was the biggest one, though it looks like they fixed it sometime in the last month.
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mrguyorama 1 day ago
I used accuweather.com in Firefox a bunch a decade ago. Did not have problems.
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packetlost 1 day ago
It was specifically broken like 4~ years ago and fixed within the last month or so.
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