Re: What is going on with firefox
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 11:03:13 +0100, Sijmen J. Mulder wrote:
> Feeling you! My browsing experience has also been steadily declining. I
> have an i5-6600 with 48 GB of RAM, which is aging, but it shouldn't
> struggle having a few video tabs open. YouTube's UI is often actively
> lagging, with hover effects only appearing after a little while, delayed
> response to playback controls, etc.
>
> My blame however goes mostly towards YouTube's bloat. Firefox struggling
> with it is a symptom, not the cause.
My own experience with Youtube inside Google Chrome is that it works
fine most of the time, but if I watch a LIVE stream, it has some kind
of massive memory leak. The tab will consume more and more memory,
up to about 5 GB, at which point the tab "crashes" with a "something
went wrong" error message, and a reload button. Pressing reload
restarts the live stream, and the leakage starts over.
It takes about 30 to 60 minutes, I think, for the tab to crash.
I don't have this problem with PREMIERES or with regular Youtube videos.
Only LIVE streams.
I don't know whether this problem is unique to Google Chrome. If you're
seeing something similar in Firefox, then you might want to compare
your experiences with mine.
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