Wow YouTube is a Hog

[Dr. Dro]

using YT in firefox here, no pauses, no resource hog, everything smooth and fine. Use adblock cof cof as soon as i open YT ublock has already 50+ stuff blocked. Sponsorblock is also nice. It's the free premium version.

The problem is that OP is using a 18 year old computer

 

[inquisitor1]

Chromium-based browser

garbage browsers and anti privacy

libre wolf and ubo for the win. containers, privacy badger, no script also is good to have.

also harden libre wolf or ff but dont use it as is, EVER!!!! theres tons of stuff that can be tweaked in settings and about:config. It took me like an hour to configure LW. FF leaks like a seive as installed. it is not pro privacy out of the box and thats cause google made them their bich.

 

[Dr. Dro]

garbage browsers and anti privacy

libre wolf and ubo for the win. containers, privacy badger, no script also is good to have.

also harden libre wolf or ff but dont use it as is, EVER!!!! theres tons of stuff that can be tweaked in settings and about:config. It took me like an hour to configure LW. FF leaks like a seive as installed. it is not pro privacy out of the box and thats cause google made them their bich.

Why not just entirely disable that filthy nonfree Javascript code and browse using the terminal with w3m or links on your fully libre and free (as in freedom) GNU/Linux system?

 

[unwind-protect]

That computer should be able to display youtube just fine. Although it would have been good style to say what CPU specifically you have, OP.

 

[Onasi]

@inquisitor1
You... do realise that Chromium itself is just an engine/framework and that it IS an open-source initiative? Sure, I have many issues with Google, but nothing stops one from using pure Chromium releases and tweaking them to be rather secure, if one wants. There are obvious difficulties with that, but still. Chromium itself is currently the best browser framework availiable, hands down.

@unwind-protect
It's a Xeon E5450, it's in his specs. And no, while DISPLAYING YT might be fine, for actually playing videos he will really be better off with x264ify. That CPU is just not good enough to software decode VP9 and AV1 that YT is pushing. Shit, my 5900X is actually ramping up back and forth in YT when a AV1 video is served. Those new formats really prefer to have a GPU hardware decode.

 

[bug]

How is it? I'm leery of anything (a) Chromium (b) advertising that heavily, but I'd be interested to know what your experience has been so far. I do know that they've baked in an exemption for uBo such that it won't be nerfed in 6 months when Google kills off the WebExtensions v2 API in Chromium.

If you're considering Opera, take a look at Vivaldi. Built by the original Opera creator, lots of niceties included.

 

[Bomby569]

The problem is that OP is using a 18 year old computer

in old PC's without modern features/instruction sets, YT can indeed take them to their knees i can confirm that, i have an old i7 and it struggles.

FF leaks like a seive as installed. it is not pro privacy out of the box and thats cause google made them their bich.

i need more information on this. I use brave but i also use tor and firefox and a few others. But my main one is firefox

 

[R0H1T]

That computer should be able to display youtube just fine.

Just display YT or actually play videos, like it's supposed to? Keep in mind without hardware acceleration YT videos will drop frames like crazy & that ancient CPU also doesn't help! Anything other than H.264(videos) would probably not work, only rendering through CPU.