Youtube webside is not usable on firefox
I installed Firefox yesterday, and everything was fine for a day. Today, when I play a YouTube video, the entire page freezes - I can't pause it, select text, or do anything. The page starts responding after about 10 seconds from last interaction.
Compared to Chrome, I can play 20 YouTube videos at once and everything works fine.
The problem only occurs on YouTube. Sites like CDA and Jellyfin work fine.
Sys: Latest Windows 11 I5-10400F Intel Arc B580 RAM 32GB 2133 MT/s
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This could be related to trying to block ads on YouTube; they seem to be retaliating if they detect an ad blocker.
No 1. I have YouTube Premium, so I don't have ads 2. I have AddBlocker disabled on the YouTube website anyway
- I've noticed that tabs with YouTube open get corrupted after a while.
When I create a new tab, everything is fine.
But after a while, it starts to get corrupted.
+ When I had background music on YouTube, after +/- 30 minutes, subsequent songs start to load longer.
So I think there's a problem with Firefox's RAM management, which is especially noticeable on YouTube when I don't refresh the tab for a long time.
- In Chrome 1, the YouTube tab could use up 1GB+ of RAM, but it's not a problem for me as long as it works well.
I don't know how Firefox handles it, but it clearly doesn't handle it very well.
This has been a problem for a while, but not a deal breaker. UNTIL 146.0 was installed this week. I can MAYBE watch 1 YouTube video, and then the system loses it's mind. Clearing the cache doesn't seem to help. Waiting (overnight say, with NO YT videos in tabs - even embedded video) MIGHT give Firefox time to do garbage collection. But this is getting stupid.
I am now keeping Chromium open just for YouTube. At some point I'm going to wonder why I just don't give up and use Chromium or Brave or ...
I've opened an issue at support (though I wasn't able to login via GitHub) but how do we get this fixed. As I said, this has been an issue for a while. Maybe it doesn't impact people who have a gaming PC with a ton of memory, but that isn't the case here.
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