Tabs crash constantly on Youtube
Recently (within the last few days) tabs have began crashing on youtube. Specifically if a video player page is loaded, but the player itself is paused for any length of time.
I have tried and successfully reproduced the issue with safe mode, I've also successfully reproduced the issue with a new profile. I've also successfully reproduced the issue with an entirely new ~/.mozilla directory.
It appears (based on what I can see) something on the page is triggered, then memory spikes and the tab crashes.
What else should I try to resolve this?
Réiteach roghnaithe
Hi,
Since reporting this bug the issue has since been resolved. I'm honestly not sure what resulted in resolving the problem, I can only guess that at some point an update swapped out, or make unavailable some function firefox was relying on, after rebooting I was back in a sane environment and things started working fine.
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Can you try downloading another version and just running it from the extracted folder? I'm running 3 version on my laptop and have not seen that issue.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#product-desktop-release
Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20201223
KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.77.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.10.1-1-default
OS Type: 64-bit
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-4810MQ CPU @ 2.80GHz
Memory: 31.0 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa DRI Intel® HD Graphics 4600
Or just download the same version and run it from the folder.
Réiteach Roghnaithe
Hi,
Since reporting this bug the issue has since been resolved. I'm honestly not sure what resulted in resolving the problem, I can only guess that at some point an update swapped out, or make unavailable some function firefox was relying on, after rebooting I was back in a sane environment and things started working fine.