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- Mozilla claims that YouTube loads 5x slower on Firefox in comparison to Chrome.
- Mozilla's Technical Program Manager Chris Peterson has claimed this on his Twitter handle.
Click here to see the statement of Chris Peterson .
Chris Peterson, technical program manager at Mozilla, said Wednesday the issue is due to YouTube’s API, or application programming interface, which uses a deprecated shadow DOM API. This makes YouTube run slower on other browsers like Firefox and Microsoft Edge, but not Google Chrome. The API is part of a YouTube redesign from about a year ago, but the problem persists. It also brings up questions about Google’s ability to sway users to use more of its products.
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