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Most people believed it was on Google's side, possibly even on purpose to make people use Chrome vs. Firefox. It is no coincidence that the Firefox / Google Antitrust case kicked off two weeks ago and this magically started working better.

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/12/1198558372/doj-google-monopol...

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Read the issue I linked above. There seemed to be performance issues in Firefox, and the feature was turned off with a UA string test. At some point, spoofing the UA string made the feature work acceptably but broke other things. Then the feature was enabled, back to the versions where it worked on.

Doesn't invalidate the above claim that the slowdown could have been made by Google.

I tried Firefox with Google Meet today and found the performance to be, ehm, not to write mom about. Still, it's nice to have it and my computer is not really the latest and greatest these days (although Chrome works fine).

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