I love Firefox, but I can’t shake the feeling that it is slower on YouTube. My tinfoil hat theory is that Google somehow throttles YouTube on Firefox.

[–] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

One thing you can test is to apply a Chrome user-agent on Firefox when visiting YouTube. In my personal experience that actually noticeably improves the situation.

[–] HKPiax@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That’s super interesting! I’m not versed enough though, do you have like a tutorial you recommend or should I just Google it?

[–] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There's a bunch of extensions that allow you to switch user-agent easily, I personally use this one, it includes a list of known strings to choose between as well.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

And to check that it’s working, there are websites you can go to which will tell you what browser they have detected you are using.

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