{"id":22271,"date":"2018-07-26T15:53:14","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T19:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=22271"},"modified":"2024-04-23T13:37:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T17:37:39","slug":"youtubes-poorer-performance-in-non-chrome-browsers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/26\/youtubes-poorer-performance-in-non-chrome-browsers\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube&rsquo;s Poorer Performance in Non-Chrome Browsers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/7\/25\/17611444\/how-to-speed-up-youtube-microsoft-edge-safari-firefox\">Tom Warren<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/7\/25\/17611444\/how-to-speed-up-youtube-microsoft-edge-safari-firefox\"><p>Google launched a new YouTube design nearly a year ago, but if you&rsquo;ve been using Edge, Safari, or Firefox then you&rsquo;ve probably wondered why YouTube is loading so slowly. Mozilla program manager <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cpeterso\/status\/1021626510296285185\">Chris Peterson has highlighted the issue<\/a> this week, and it&rsquo;s not your alternative browser that&rsquo;s to blame. Google&rsquo;s redesign still relies on a deprecated shadow DOM API that&rsquo;s only implemented in Chrome, making other browsers render YouTube five times slower.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/youtube-performance-in-non-chrome-browsers\/\">Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/youtube-performance-in-non-chrome-browsers\/\">\n<p>The implication here seems to be that Google has built YouTube to run well specifically in Chrome because they want more people using their own browser, and that it&rsquo;s somewhat anticompetitive in the vein of their blocking of other products on competing platforms. I get that angle, but I think it&rsquo;s misapplied here. It seems more likely to me that Google just didn&rsquo;t adequately test YouTube in non-Chrome browsers, probably because they&rsquo;re less popular and maybe because they don&rsquo;t care.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Warren: Google launched a new YouTube design nearly a year ago, but if you&rsquo;ve been using Edge, Safari, or Firefox then you&rsquo;ve probably wondered why YouTube is loading so slowly. Mozilla program manager Chris Peterson has highlighted the issue this week, and it&rsquo;s not your alternative browser that&rsquo;s to blame. Google&rsquo;s redesign still relies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-07-26T19:53:16Z","apple_news_api_id":"43321799-921b-418b-a361-662dbcde5388","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-04-23T17:37:42Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AQzIXmZIbQYujYWYtvN5TiA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[456,30,1529,96,555],"class_list":["post-22271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-googlechrome","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-13","tag-web","tag-youtube"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22272,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22271\/revisions\/22272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}