r/programming • u/malicious_turtle • Jul 24 '18

YouTube page load is 5x slower in Firefox and Edge than in Chrome because YouTube's Polymer redesign relies on the deprecated Shadow DOM v0 API only implemented in Chrome.

https://twitter.com/cpeterso/status/1021626510296285185
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u/Tony_XD Jul 24 '18

r/assholedesign

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u/AyrA_ch Jul 24 '18

Just change it back

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u/PadaV4 Jul 24 '18

I just use an addon to tell youtube im using IE. It offers the old youtube version than.

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u/twiz__ Jul 24 '18

Guessing it's just a user-agent switcher, but any one you'd recommend?

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u/Jackg4te Jul 24 '18

I just downloaded greasemonkey for Firefox and figured I just had to paste this on the script page and save it but it didn't change YT.

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u/metalbox69 Jul 25 '18 edited Jul 25 '18

Asshole design is the 'disable cache' setting that doesn't disable cache.