Youtube website issues
February 7th, 2020
The video stream stutters from time to time.
But that’s not the biggest issue.
When I scroll down, it takes several seconds before something happens, and when something happens I usually don’t end where I want to be.
The website stutters, the stream stutters. No or very slow responsiveness.
I experience this on several PC’s, strangely.
I’m mainly using Firefox but noticed same thing on IE8.
I do have a lot of tabs all the time.
I had the same problem and I normally use opera, then one friend suggested chrome to watch videos, i believed it will make no difference, until i tried myself…
try google chrome, and if you do not wanna install another explorer, try the portable version..
Good luck
I have no problem installing another browser.
So I went to the website and downloaded and installed Chrome. And yeah, boom, all the problems I was having are gone. I can scroll, click, nothing is stuttering and nothing is blocking.
This looks good.
To make it final I’ll have to run Chrome as extensive as I use Firefox and see how it goes.
But so far so good. Thanks.
Just weird that a good browser as Firefox can’t handle youtube
Just weird that a good browser as Firefox can't handle youtube
There’s nothing wrong with Firefox and Youtube – works just fine for me
Few things you could try:
– Check your processor usage while videos are playing – Check your available RAM while the videos are playing
– Right-click the video, select Settings and check whether the option to Enable hardware acceleration is enabled
– Try disabling addons that you have installed and see if that makes a difference
– You could try clearing out your cache/cookies
– Try reinstalling Firefox
Just weird that a good browser as Firefox can't handle youtube
There's nothing wrong with Firefox and Youtube - works just fine for me
Few things you could try:
- Check your processor usage while videos are playing - Check your available RAM while the videos are playing
- Right-click the video, select Settings and check whether the option to Enable hardware acceleration is enabled
- Try disabling addons that you have installed and see if that makes a difference
- You could try clearing out your cache/cookies
- Try reinstalling Firefox
I know that there probably is no general issue, otherwise I would have easily found some info.
I’ve tried reinstalling Firefox, reinstalling Flash, enabling hardware acceleration. I’ve 8GB ram and Firefox is peaking at 800MB with lots of tabs open. But I have plenty of free memory.
I just think that running with to much addons and to much tabs starts making things complicated.
If Google Chrome can handle extensions and excessive tabs then I’ll just take peace with it and use Chrome.
Besides, I have a feeling Chrome works very good. I may start using it as my primary browser and see if it still works well with the load I’m used to put on my browser
Just weird that a good browser as Firefox can't handle youtube
There's nothing wrong with Firefox and Youtube - works just fine for me
Few things you could try:
- Check your processor usage while videos are playing - Check your available RAM while the videos are playing
- Right-click the video, select Settings and check whether the option to Enable hardware acceleration is enabled
- Try disabling addons that you have installed and see if that makes a difference
- You could try clearing out your cache/cookies
- Try reinstalling Firefox
I know that there probably is no general issue, otherwise I would have easily found some info.
I've tried reinstalling Firefox, reinstalling Flash, enabling hardware acceleration. I've 8GB ram and Firefox is peaking at 800MB with lots of tabs open. But I have plenty of free memory.
I just think that running with to much addons and to much tabs starts making things complicated.
If Google Chrome can handle extensions and excessive tabs then I'll just take peace with it and use Chrome.
Besides, I have a feeling Chrome works very good. I may start using it as my primary browser and see if it still works well with the load I'm used to put on my browser
Yup, use whatever works for you! Firefox has become known for being a memory hog although it’s improving with each version.
If you have Internet Download Manager installed, You tube may slow and hang, update to the latest version of IDM and all should be good
I have no problem installing another browser.
So I went to the website and downloaded and installed Chrome. And yeah, boom, all the problems I was having are gone. I can scroll, click, nothing is stuttering and nothing is blocking.
This looks good.
To make it final I'll have to run Chrome as extensive as I use Firefox and see how it goes.
But so far so good. Thanks.
Just weird that a good browser as Firefox can't handle youtube
Good to know ur problem is solved for now! glad i could help… I know the problem is not a general one, but it happens for some ISPs (it is ISP related) and it is not related with ur speed! but all i am certain of, is that google chrome just solves everything… may be google wants you to use chrome
anyway, peace
Well Google own Youtube so I’m guessing they are making it more or less incompatible with other browsers so everyone has to download Chrome to use Youtube. But yep I have the same problems when on Opera and fine when on Chrome.
thank you