Comment by shakna
10 months ago
Changing Firefox's UserAgent to Chrome's, results in a speed-up. Because when the useragent isn't Chrome, YouTube checks for feature availability, whilst on Chrome, they just assume it is all there.
10 months ago
Changing Firefox's UserAgent to Chrome's, results in a speed-up. Because when the useragent isn't Chrome, YouTube checks for feature availability, whilst on Chrome, they just assume it is all there.
Thanks for giving me a specific example. At this point in the evolution of web standards and their implementations, that kind of UA check is stupid enough that I can believe there is at least some level of intent to not also making assumptions about available features on other browsers.