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Because that is exactly what we have all been clamoring for. Gee thanks Google.

Ok, that is more than a bit dismissive and I shouldn't be as cynical as I am about it but I switched to Firefox for a reason, this crap just keeps interfering. But oh wait, want to watch Youtube.tv in Firefox, oh so sorry you can't because it won't do video acceleration. I remember when you had to run Silverlight to watch Netflix too, that sucked as well.

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I recently started to run into new IE6 stuff - bank plugin for certificates that was made only for Chrome, then on mobile some ecommerce site which simply didn't work in mobile FF (real one, on android), stuff like that. I suspect there will be way more of this monopolistic crap now that FF has fallen below 10% and Edge died.

I use Chrome for a few spare things (like Youtube and full-screen gslides) but for all else FF or Safari (both with ublock+umatrix) are much better. FF handles XML rendering way way faster than Chrome - great for my job.

How do you run umatrix with Safari? I’ve thought it’s not available.

I got that part wrong - sorry to tease. No uMatrix in my Safari. Just content blocker + ublock-origin.

For youtube watching, youtube-dl works nicely for much of youtube, and after you download the video, presumably your local player can make use of all your hardware acceleration that might be available.

http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/about.html

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