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Only? No. Best? Yes, it's not even close.

I got the Chrome extension that adds the "Open in Firefox" option to the hyperlink right-click menu. That's how I view all YouTube videos.

I'd switch completely to Firefox except for all my data being on Google. It's clear that eventually I will switch to Firefox completely.

Google is pure evil.

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I don't understand, all my data sits on Google too but I never use Chrome for anything? What issues are you having?

1. Laziness.

2. My employer requires Chrome or Edge to access all resources.

My data is google too and I own a pixel phone, but I only use Firefox and my google data is perfectly accessible using it.

Why not migrate your data off? As far as browser stuff goes, it's not that hard of a switch.

Laziness.

Also I swear YouTube runs much worse on FF. But that's secondary.

That second part was indeed pretty self evident years ago, but I regularly watch 4k content on YouTube on low powered machine these days and can't say I see the difference anymore.

You might still in a power usage graph.

Eh, maybe, maybe not. I watch YouTube content, not power usage graphs, perceived performance is good enough for what I do with it. If I'm on battery I'm probably not watching in 4k anyway, at which point the difference in power use should be pretty negligible.

Got curious, so I did a very unscientific experiment. Playing 3 1080 music videos in FF pulls about 60W here. In Chrome, about 50W. No videos playing is about 30W.

If it's uBlock or 3.33W, I know which I'm choosing.

It's more about "abdicating to the Chromium monopoly" than "uBlock" in my case, in which case that 3.33W isn't so bad for me. YMMV I guess.

I'm not saying it's FF's fault, but it undeniably runs worse on my machine.

I switched my family off Google after almost 20 years on our own domain. In hindsight it was ridiculously easy, although there are still some weird Google account required links that ultimately have me just moving on. Yt does run worse on FF but that's because of unlock (I believe) they tend to stall out intentionally instead of showing you ads and attempt to get you to switch.

Yeah, I believe the stall-out issue is sabotage, but it also visibly takes longer to just render the page. On FF, a YT page jumps around for almost two whole seconds while it renders for me (not to play the video - to render the page). This may also be sabotage by Google, I don't know.

YouTube runs worse on FF if you have uBO. They do it on purpose. But if you were to use a clean Firefox install it's pretty comparable. Ofc YT is optimized for Chromium which is another factor

When you first install Firefox, there's an option to import all your data from Chrome.

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