do you never encounter opening youtube video in a new tab only for video itself to load, while rest of the page doesn't?

I experience this, but only with YouTube Shorts. Video loads, but none of the elements around it.

kiwijamo 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That's never happened for me and I normally watch 5-10+ YouTube videos daily. Firefox.

wiml 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That sounds pretty nice. Is there a way to do it on purpose?

recursive 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I've never seen that. I use Firefox.

mikkupikku 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That happens to me about 50% of the time. I assume it's google engineers not testing on Firefox.

	▲	mavamaarten 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Hah. I always assume it's them actively trying to make the experience worse on anything that is not Chrome.

raydev 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Are you running any extensions that modify content?

riidom 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yes happens sometimes to me, Vivaldi.

busymom0 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This has happened to me frequently.

Also many times, the video won't play. If I reload the page, then it will play.

I have, and recently, i nothing is loading until i open a new video in another tab, then all of a sudden both pages start loading and playing :s