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What is this referring to?
Probably talking about how there was code found in YouTube that makes playing videos slower on Firefox. It was supposedly a bug but I believe this happened recently along with Google declaring war on ad blockers. So obviously a lot of people believe it wasn't just a bug.
The code specifically looked for "Firefox" in your UA and started a 5 second wait timer. There's no way it was a bug, you don't just add idle waits into your website.
I mean I've seen some weird workarounds when stuff isn't loading in when they're supposed to..
But yeah this is probably not that.
I don't know if they had some specific thing on their mind, but generally Firefox pretty much needs to do whatever Google wants with the web standards, because Firefox is close to becoming irrelevant (which is a damn shame, I've been using that browser for forever).
Also, Google is a (the?) major source of funding for Mozilla, so they have a lot of clout with them.