Ask HN: Is YouTube slower on Firefox than Chrome?

I'm on Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS using top-of-market, workstation-grade hardware, and when I'm watching YouTube on Firefox 82.0.2, the videos keep buffering. I have a 55 Mbps down Internet connection, and this didn't happen before. I had a sneaking suspicion that YouTube would work better on Chrome, opened YouTube using `google-chrome-stable` 86.0.4240.183 and it worked beautifully.

It's been frustrating this year because there's a bunch of little changes made to Google apps in order to make it break on Firefox, like Google Sheets added an extra carriage return on Firefox that wasn't present in Chrome, and Google Meet forcibly errors out with a "network connection" issue that requires Chrome. Also the `youtube-dl` ban thing, I'm using somebody's fork right now but not sure how long that will last.

Just wondering if other people are experiencing these "buffering" errors.