# Google allegedly crippling Firefox’s YouTube performance — company’s response to five-second video delay for non-Chrome users misses the point

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/google-allegedly-crippling-firefoxs-youtube-performance-companys-response-to-five-second-video-delay-for-non-chrome-users-misses-the-point/
- Published: 2023-11-22T09:30:49-06:00
- Author: Curated by John Wysocki

Image credit: Google, Mozilla. Article by Mark Tyson. Tom’s Hardware – November 21, 2023. On Monday, a Redditor demonstrated that a recently observed five-second video loading delay, seen when using YouTube in Firefox, could be eliminated by changing the user agent to Chrome. Today, YouTube responded with a statement received by Android Authority conflating non-Chrome video loading delay issues with the use of ad blockers. […] Click here to view original web page at www.tomshardware.com