{"id":269659,"date":"2018-07-26T08:23:06","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T06:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=269659"},"modified":"2018-07-26T08:25:07","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T06:25:07","slug":"google-has-slowed-down-youtube-on-firefox-and-edge-mozilla-exec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/269659-google-has-slowed-down-youtube-on-firefox-and-edge-mozilla-exec.html","title":{"rendered":"Google has slowed down YouTube on Firefox and Edge &#8211; Mozilla exec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla technical programme manager Chris Peterson stated that Google has deliberately slowed down the performance of YouTube on Mozilla&#8217;s Firefox and Microsoft&#8217;s Edge web browsers, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/mozilla-exec-says-google-slowed-youtube-down-on-non-chrome-browsers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNET reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;YouTube page load is 5-times slower in Firefox and Edge than in Chrome, because YouTube&#8217;s Polymer redesign relies on the deprecated Shadow DOM v0 API only implemented in Chrome,&#8221; Peterson <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cpeterso\/status\/1021626510296285185\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;YouTube serves a Shadow DOM polyfill to Firefox and Edge that is, unsurprisingly, slower than Chrome&#8217;s native implementation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Peterson said that on his laptop, the initial page load takes five seconds with the polyfill &#8211; compared to one second without it. Subsequent page navigation performance is comparable, he found.<\/p>\n<p>He suggested the YouTube Classic Firefox <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/youtube-classic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">extension<\/a><\/strong> to restore YouTube&#8217;s pre-Polymer design to increase the first-load performance of the site.<\/p>\n<p>To fix YouTube on Edge, you can install the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/openuserjs.org\/about\/Tampermonkey-for-Edge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tampermonkey extension<\/a><\/strong> for the browser and use a &#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/openuserjs.org\/scripts\/Cpt_mathix\/Youtube_-_Restore_Classic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube Restore Classic<\/a><\/strong>&#8221; user script.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/269523-firefox-tests-muting-autoplaying-audio.html\">Firefox tests muting autoplaying audio<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla technical programme manager Chris Peterson suggested that Google has deliberately slowed down the performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":107116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[167,2150],"class_list":["post-269659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-google","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269659"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269711,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269659\/revisions\/269711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}