• zewm@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Did they fix the horrible performance of Firefox based browsers? That was deal breaker for me. YouTube videos would lag and stutter for 1-2 seconds before playing. Smooth as butter on chrome based browsers. I don’t want to rely on chrome based browsers.

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      2 months ago

      have been using bazzite for a while now and don’t have issues with Firefox, could be tests Google are running. they recently are targeting users of adblockers and artificially setting high load times in hopes users disable them. a decent alternative is freetube (on flathub) which is anonymous so you can’t login but you can import playlists and includes ad+sponsor block. they’re pretty fast at fixing Google’s attempts to break it too, sometimes you might have to change instances to get it working.

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        2 months ago

        This feels more like a codecs issue tbh. Not a bandwidth problem. It’s more hardware lag if that makes sense.

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      2 months ago

      I just installed and run my browser through a Fedora toolbox (distrobox) and it fixed that problem completely.

      I use FreeTube for yt, but that has issues with IP blocks and stuff while using a VPN, but it works if I switch servers once or twice.

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        2 months ago

        Didn’t think of that but too late now. Just nuked and went with Fedora proper.

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      2 months ago

      I personally wouldn’t describe it as horrible, but it is good to hear someone else seeing problems with video playback on YT. Just curious though, did you have any add-ons? I do and I need to compare playback without them. Hrmm

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        2 months ago

        I did clean installs no addons of zen and librewolf and all of them had the same laggy stutter the first 1-2 seconds a video loads.

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      2 months ago

      I yeeted the installed one and just went with the rpm Firefox, works a treat