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		millstone on May 17, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Firefox tops Microsoft browser market share for fi... At some point, YouTube worked better with Safari than with Chrome or Firefox. YouTube would serve VP9 to browsers that supported it, but it was not hardware accelerated, so it used much more CPU.

TazeTSchnitzel on May 17, 2016 [–]

This is most likely still true. Safari only supports h.264 which has better hardware support than VP9 just now.

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