Waterfox

Is YouTube running slow for you? This might be why.

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I’ve been noticing lately that YouTube loads slower than it used to… this article shines some light on possibly why.

In a thread on Twitter, Mozilla’s Technical Program Manager has stated that YouTube’s Polymer redesign relies heavily on the deprecated Shadow DOM v0 API, which is only available in Chrome. This in turn makes the site around five times slower on competing browsers such as Microsoft Edge and Mozila Firefox. He went on to say that:

I use Waterfox and have no interest in migrating over to Chrome… do no evil my :assy:

From SeaMonkey to Firefox to Waterfox with a side of Thunderbird

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After reading some of the usual tech sites I decided to give Waterfox a try. It’s like Firefox, but it’s 64 bit and has telemetry disabled (unlike Firefox which has been turned back on, sneaky bastards). If you already have Firefox installed it will automatically have all your settings and addons in place. So if you feel like giving it a looking over I highly recommend it. I haven’t had any problems with it so far.

I also decided to look into using Thunderbird for my email, which is really familiar to SeaMonkey’s in browser email client. In fact it imported my emails from SeaMonkey which I thought was awesome. It also comes with a calendar addon which I might be able to make use of. Now I just need to move my old emails over to my new email address since my old one was taken down by Charter Residential, because they’re a bunch of fucking morons…