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Firefox YouTube Live Streams Keep Freezing (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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Anyone else experience this? I haven't ever had this problem with Chrome. Live streams on YouTube seem to freeze once an hour or so. Actually YouTube just seems way slower and much more laggy on FireFox. I am using uBlock Origin so maybe that is throttling things, but I'm not sure.

Any advice?

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[–] adhocfungus@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

I have no advice, but I have a similar issue. Firefox on Windows 10 with just uBlock Origin.

YouTube works fine at first, but if I watch a lot of videos in a row then after an hour or so it starts to load slowly. Then it stutters, then finally I get audio and a single frame for the whole video. Shorts seem to accelerate the descent. I haven't tried live streams yet, but I bet I'd get the same result.

Completely closing all Firefox instances and reopening fixes it for an hour. It acts like a memory leak, but I'm not even close to maxing out my RAM when it crashes. My fans get loud which makes me wonder if it's botching the hardware acceleration.

Sadly I can't help beyond telling you you're not crazy.