Going back a page on Youtube doesn't always load same page, or at same spot
I recently made the switch to Firefox full time a few weeks ago, and in that time, I have been getting more and more annoying at how Firefox renders Youtube.com.
If I'm on my feed, and I click to watch a video, watch it and go back, I never know what I'm going to see when it goes back a page. Obviously it goes back to youtube.com, but I never know if it's going to load at the top of my feed, or about ten rows down. Even if I click a video in the very first row, and then go back a page, it may or may not load at the top of my feed. I could also actually click a video on the tenth row, and then when I go back, it might load at the top of my feed, though that is not as common, it has happened. It also sort of, kind of, reloads the page when it goes back, but never goes back to the point on my feed at the spot where the video I just watched is, as Chrome and Brave do.
This is not how Chrome or Brave do things, and yes, I know they use a different engine, and I'm sure that's the reason for this issue. Chrome or Brave, if I'm watching a video and click back to my feed, they are much better at loading what is in cache, even if I the video was on the 100th row. I can then manually refresh if I want to.
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I would like to add that I can click a video on the 100th row, and when I click back, it goes back to the tenth row.
Now it's doing it when I open the browser. Youtube is one of my launch tabs, and it launched a whole new instance already down at the tenth row of my feed, not at the top.
Someone has to have some kind of idea what is happening here as it's driving me nuts.
Not really. Google is serving different versions of code/features to different users so only they know what they're doing. And yes, they mostly code things to work on their Blink engine.
The only thing you can affect from your side is to restart into Troubleshoot Mode from Help menu to load without addons to see if some are interfering — and open the same in new Private Tab to see how it looks when you're not getting the same session identification with A/B test experiments.
(I don't have a "feed" or "rows", but from search results I can apparently go back and forth with the scroll position being remembered, not sure if it's just the way the feed scripting is done — if you reproduce in private tab without addons you might be interested in submitting a "Report Broken Site" to the compatibility team.)
How do you not have a feed on youtube? Do you not have a youtube/google account?
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