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| ▲ | accrual 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Interesting, YouTube runs fairly well on my system with Firefox. I do get the "Experiencing interruptions? Find out why" pop-up often. It's funny though, the only interruption I actually experience is the pop-up. If the pop-up went away, so would all interruptions. |
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| ▲ | nicce an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| They do that on purpose. To keep you using Chrome. Some of the related posts: https://www.zdnet.com/article/youtube-is-slowing-video-loads... |
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| ▲ | jasode 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Many replies about Firefox having no problems on Youtube but I will confirm your complaint that it's an ongoing issue for some of us. I keep retrying Firefox over multiple years and it's still not quite equal to Chrome for Youtube 4k playback ... 2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28783904 2024: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42176450 2026 still talks about the problem: https://go.tabbit.ai/blog/firefox-youtube-4k-stuttering And a recent Youtube comment (2026-September) notices that Firefox doesn't run as well as Chrome on his modern high-end laptop with 64GB RAM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIE_PkuFeng&lc=UgxfGeBL6sopr... |
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| ▲ | jacquesm an hour ago | parent [-] | | 4k? That might have something to do with it. Though given a big enough box that too shouldn't be an issue. But I'm using a decade+ old thinkpad driving a fairly high res dell and it works well enough. |
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| ▲ | lelanthran an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I've used FF for the past 20 years (Linux and Windows). I have seen thousands of youtube videos in that time without a glitch. So have many hundreds of other FF users. If FF is not working on youtube for, it's not working for you and you alone. |
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| ▲ | vasachi 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I've had zero problems with Youtube on FF for I don't remember how many years. I'm on Mac though. |
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| ▲ | floydnoel 41 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I just use Brave for YT. Adblock built in! |
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| ▲ | throw0101c 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > Nope. I watch a lotta youtube on a PC, FF runs vids like crap because Google changes something, and FF struggls to play well unlike Chrome or Edge. I generally use Safari on my Apple devices (and YT works) and Firefox on any Linux machines. If something does not work on Safari I try Firefox on my Mac. In the past I've also sometimes used Chrome when no other option works. So one option could be to use Firefox as a 'general use' browser, and switch to something else on an as-needed basis. A bit of a hassle, but it may be the best compromise currently. |
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| ▲ | jacquesm 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Never had a problem with that. |
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| ▲ | lightedman 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| "Nope. I watch a lotta youtube on a PC, FF runs vids like crap because Google changes something, and FF struggls to play well unlike Chrome or Edge." You must have a hardware problem, as I'm playing 4K videos on a 1st-gen Ryzen and GTX 1080 using Firefox and I've never had a single issue since I got the machine, around the 4th week the processor was available to purchase. |
