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by chinathrow5 hours ago |
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upvoteby dickeeT2 hours ago|
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is it as greedy as chrome for the ram?
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upvoteby dspillett2 hours ago|
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In my recent experience: definitely yes, though not significantly worse. Unless you have [many] hundreds of tabs open (which I do as I have neither executive function nor organisational skills), or have a machine with very limited RAM, I don't think you'll notice a difference.

This is anecdata, of course, take with a pinch of your preferred flavouring powder.

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upvoteby mapt1 hours ago|
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Chrome on Windows is running with thousands of tabs "open" over dozens of windows, but it does practically max out on a certain number of tabs per window (not just the GUI, but something in the memory architecture), and it does stack fat cache which will crash the whole thing if it digs deeper than your available space.

Windows even runs (semi-playably) 2020's shooters in this condition, though you need to kill any windows close to the tab limit that are full of recently opened tabs.

[Yes, I know, the horror]

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upvoteby theandrewbailey2 hours ago|
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Yes: https://www.phoronix.com/review/firefox-chrome-2026/4

> Chrome also came in at slightly lower memory consumption across all the benchmarks with total memory usage on average at 4.67GB to Firefox at 4.83GB.

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upvoteby sevenzero5 hours ago|
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upvoteby sham14 hours ago|
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Yes, actually!

Well, it does require you to install an extension[0], but it can be done.

[0]: <https://github.com/mozilla/video-bg-play>

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upvoteby sevenzero4 hours ago|
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Thats good to know, but I am a "out of the box" person. I never want to have to manually install extensions as thats just more stuff to remember when setting up a new machine. Yea thats a me problem, but still.
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upvoteby input_sh4 hours ago|
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It used to support it out-of-the-box as well, but it's technically against YouTube's ToS to allow this without paying for a premium, so now you need this as an extra hoop.
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upvoteby robin_reala2 hours ago|
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Why should a browser be policing YouTube’s ToS for them?
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upvoteby Aachen1 hours ago|
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Agreed, this sounds strange indeed. Much more likely is that Google found a reliable way to detect the screen status using a standard feature and Mozilla just implements the standard neutrally
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upvoteby input_sh2 hours ago|
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Wouldn't know, as I have never been in charge of one, but I imagine Google having the power to make your browser completely irrelevant would be a pretty strong incentive.
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upvoteby kioleanu4 hours ago|
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You want to have your cake and eat it too, I think the best solution in your case is paying for youtube
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upvoteby sevenzero3 hours ago|
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Or I just keep using brave and not pay for the biggest media corpo that just passed Disney in revenue.
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upvoteby Fnoord1 hours ago|
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Was Brave pre-installed on your computer or did you remember to install it?
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upvoteby Aachen1 hours ago|
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You don't install software on your machines that didn't come pre-installed/configured?
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upvoteby chneu39 minutes ago|
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They're literally asking for a paid YouTube feature to be free "out of the box". Lol wild.
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upvoteby sevenzero14 minutes ago|
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Nah I want general media playback in the background. Doesn't matter if its Youtube or any other platform. I dont want giga corpos to monetize my attention. Youtube does well enough from ads anyway ;)
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upvoteby dspillett2 hours ago|
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Even youtube's app itself doesn't allow that unless you pay. I suspect they've nobbled most browsers into not allowing it, either by technical measures or (more likely) the strong-arm tactic of saying “if you don't block this we'll find a way to make the entire of youtube practically unusable on your browser”.

I've been using Grayjay recently which does allow that, amongst a number of other useful features (integrating other media sources, lack of adverts every few minutes in some content). Might be worth considering as an option.

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upvoteby phs318u1 hours ago|
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Kagi’s Orion browser on iOS is able to play YT vids in the background.
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upvoteby high_na_euv1 hours ago|
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You can play yt video in firefox with locked screen but you need to use desktop mode
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upvoteby lukan4 hours ago|
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It allows you to play youtube without ads with ublock origin.
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upvoteby sevenzero4 hours ago|
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I used ublock origin for a while, but I kept having issues with it on Youtube due to Youtubes anti adblock measurements. Brave for some reason always had a fix for it pretty quickly, so I never experienced these issues with it. Maybe I could try a different browser again on my next machine.
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upvoteby freehorse4 hours ago|
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In iOS kinda yes; you have to request desktop version, and once you activate the lock screen for the first time you have to press “play”. Then it just plays and auto plays in the background.

Don’t know about android, but there is also an extension there that blocks the visibility page api for YouTube.

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upvoteby purerandomness2 hours ago|
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Why not simply use NewPipe [0]?

You also get ad filtering and you can download Audio/Video streams from within the app.

[0] https://newpipe.net/

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upvoteby tdeck4 hours ago|
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Yes. That's the primary reason I use it, but you have to install an extension called "Video Background Play Fix".
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upvoteby ranger_danger4 hours ago|
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Tubular app does, and it blocks ads
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