Hi,
I'm really fed up with this problem. I had this issue with Windows 8, then in 8.1 and now in Windows 10.
The same happened with Geforce 470 and now with Geforce 960.… (閱讀更多)
Hi,
I'm really fed up with this problem. I had this issue with Windows 8, then in 8.1 and now in Windows 10.
The same happened with Geforce 470 and now with Geforce 960.
Description:
- Open FF, go to youtube.com, click a video
- Press play, click on video, pause it, change time of video, does not matter but seems like this makes it worse (= takes longer)
- After a few seconds FF hangs totally for 5-30 seconds
- Any change of window size will sometimes trigger this again
System:
Windows 10 Professional 64-bit and 6 core i7
Desktop with 32GB of RAM
Boot drive is Samsung EVO SSD (FF and profile folder reside in there)
This has happened with many versions of Firefox in past 1.5-2 years at least.
- It now happens with latest beta (41.0b9)
- It also happens with latest FF non-beta version
- It used to happen with Flash videos in youtube.com
- It now also happens with HTML5 videos
It's really hard see why this happens.
- This does not happen with embedded youtube videos
- This does not happen with any other video site
- This does not happen at gaming.youtube.com
- This does not happen with other browsers
I'm suspecting it has something to do with how FF "renders" youtube.com video page.
I've tried to fix it many times, using hacks such as:
- Disabling/changing stuff from about:config - Using hacks I've found by searching similar issues.
- Starting FF in safe mode
- Disable FF hardware rendering
- Cleanup cache
- Doing cleanup settings using about:support / Refresh
- Manually removing plugin file leftovers from profile folder
- Set allow full access for FF exe files in firewall
- Checked for viruses, I've got AVG free running all the time
- Disabled previously mentioned virus scanner
- Updated display driver
- Did rollback in system restore, I had installed one software (UE4.9) but that didn't seem to cause it
These changes don't make any difference.
8 months or so ago, in Windows 8.1 after installing some earlier version of FF the problems went away. After updating to Windows 10 a month or so ago, everything worked just fine. Now that this started happening once again yesterday.
I've no idea what goes on under the hood, since I'm not a web developer, but this sucks.
When I open Tools/Webdeveloper/Performance window and start recording, then if I play youtube video (it hangs for some time) and stop recording, graph shows drop of framerate from 60 to 0-1FPS or something similar.
Windows task manager also shows that FF is in unresponsive state when this happens.
My guess
It seems to me that this is just some issue how FF handles youtube.com. It's not happening just with video playback, neither was it limited to Flash only as it now happens with youtube.com pages that have HTML5 videos.
I've seen many posts and threads while googling talking about similar symptoms, but none of the solutions seem to work. Either the problem is different or solutions are outdated as FF is updated and things have changed.
I might be naturally wrong, as I just don't know what causes this and I can't pinpoint the cause for this problem. I feel like I'm about to go chrome only for YT.
Any help / suggestions how to fix this are welcome!