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I work on YouTube's front-end and we work very hard to maintain cross-browser compatibility.

YouTube used Polyfill for Firefox, which was 5x slower.

It worked just fine if you pretended to be Chrome by changing the user agent.

What does "cross-browser" mean? Do you test any browsers other than Firefox and Chrome?

At this stage there are only 3-ish modern web engines (Those plus WebKit).