I'm seeing a lot of people saying gmail and youtube are slow in Firefox. This may not sound like a good answer, but consider using a dedicated video player such as mpv for youtube, and an email client instead of webmail.
Web browsers are some of the worst-performing software we have today. Asking them to do more than display documents and web pages never seems to go well.
I was a die hard Chrome user until about 4 years ago, switched to Firefox since then and I rarely feel the need to open Chrome, which I keep around just for the occasional testing of websites.
I never had problems with YouTube. That said Gmail or the GSuite Admin are a little slower in Firefox.
But you know what?
They are slow enough in Chrome too. Latest Gmail is a piece of shit.
So the solution to that was to switch to a desktop client (Mailmate, which can handle Gmail just fine) and for my personal email I switched to FastMail. And I'm very happy about it.
Get out of the Google bubble. The air is clean on this side of the fence ;-)
Gmail is really crazy slow on Firefox, it’s such a deal breaker. I have regularly 30s to load the web application, it’s closer to 2-5s on Edge with the same setup (same ad blockers, etc).
The problem isn't Firefox. The problem is chrome. Since it has a biggest market share and most of the web developers use it. Websites tend to be more optimized for Chromium engine than Firefox. I moved to Firefox and Gmail and other google apps work terribly slow. I'm trying to find a new email provider now . Does anyone have recommendations?
Oddly enough I haven't had too many issues with YouTube's slowness (as a Firefox user). I mean, it's slow, but "tolerable". It's the new Gmail that's horrifically slow now. It takes a good 20 seconds to get to the point where I can interact with it, and then each interaction takes another 10 seconds.
For the past 3 years I've noticed gmail being extra slow on Firefox. Every other site loads almost instantly, except gmail. Even when I used to use Facebook, it would load fairly quick. Chrome wasn't much quicker or slower. Except for gmail. Gmail loads almost instantly on Chrome. I've basically given up on using mail's web interface even though I much prefer it over all linux mail clients.
Gmail always used to slow down Firefox so much that I switched to an email client. Now Firefox runs much much better. I regret cursing Firefox for so many months.
It's not just you. Gmail has become so slow to load for me that I wonder if they've deliberately sabotaged it on Firefox. Amazing how it's 2019 and web apps somehow seem to be less usable than they were ten years ago. I miss fast desktop apps.
What version of Firefox are you running? You are either exaggerating greatly or have other issues with your system. I run the latest stable release of Firefox and the performance of Gmail (particularly the features you mention) is fine. I’d be happy to upload a screen recording to verify.
I actually prefer videos in Firefox because of picture in picture. But yeah, with Gmail in Firefox you've had to basically switch to HTML mode. It's gotten a lot better though in recent releases.
I am using firefox since 2008, google services are lacking performance in firefox from last 2 years.
First it was only youtube videos, but now it has expanded to docs and other services also.
From last six months Gmail never opens on first attempt in my firefox second is required, but if I switch to chrome it not only magically opens at first attempt but with faster page load.
Web browsers are some of the worst-performing software we have today. Asking them to do more than display documents and web pages never seems to go well.
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