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[–] zewm@lemmy.world -3 points 1 month ago (6 children)

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.

[–] kewjo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] zewm@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago

Maybe the same issue that Silverblue has with the Firefox from the Fedora repo. The Flathub repo Firefox has the non-free codecs in it.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] zewm@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

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

[–] besmtt@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] zewm@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month 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.

[–] coaxil@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

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

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I recommend some variant of the h264ify plugin if you're having weird video issues with firefox based browsers.

There's some nonsense going on with some of the codecs Youtube uses + FF... YT used to let you more manually set your codec preferences, now they don't, but the h264ify plugins basically allow you to set those prefs yourself, and by default just disallow the problematic ones.

[–] zewm@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I just nuked it and went with regular Fedora and it works fine now. It was only a problem on Bazzite.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Huh. Well, glad you found a solution!