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.
