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Re: Firefox alternatives?

From Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Firefox alternatives?
Date 2024-12-12 13:20 +0100
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On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 00:44:06 -0500, eben@gmx.us wrote:
> On 12/12/24 00:28, David Christensen wrote:
> >
> > I have installed the NoScript extension in Firefox.  I typically enable only
> > enough JavaScript to get a site working.  YouTube recently changed their
> > site such that videos stall after about a minute if google.com is blocked. 
> > When I enabled google.com, Firefox became very sluggish.
> 
> Hmm I have Firefox with Noscript and watch a fair amount of Youtube.
> google.com does not get to run JS and I've noticed no ill effects.
> Ghostery's blocking 7 things on that site (it says) and most of them have
> "Google" in the name.  Perhaps that's the difference?  There's also
> "Adblocker for Youtube™".

I normally watch Youtube videos in Google Chrome.  My experience is
that everything works well except certain live streams -- these will
consume more and more memory until the tab "crashes" with a "something
went wrong" message, and a Reload button.  Pressing the Reload button
reconnects to the live stream and then the cycle repeats.

Premieres and regular videos aren't an issue.  Just live streams.  And
I'm not sure if it's all of them, or some of them.

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Re: Firefox alternatives? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-12-12 06:30 +0100
  Re: Firefox alternatives? eben@gmx.us - 2024-12-12 06:50 +0100
    Re: Firefox alternatives? Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2024-12-12 10:10 +0100
    Re: Firefox alternatives? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-12-12 13:20 +0100
      Re: Firefox alternatives? John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2024-12-12 15:30 +0100
      Re: Firefox alternatives? eben@gmx.us - 2024-12-12 16:50 +0100
    Re: Firefox alternatives? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-12-12 18:50 +0100

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