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yjhunjhunwala
Copper Contributor
Apr 20, 2021

Edge Dev Freezes - Youtube

The browser freezes while watching youtube videos. No fixed pattern as far as I can notice. Works fine if YouTube playing video on different tab. 

 

Edge Dev Version - 91.0.852.0

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  • HotCakeX's avatar
    HotCakeX
    MVP
    Apr 20, 2021

    Hi,
    are you using any custom flags? edge://flags/
    try turning off all of your extensions, restart browser and try again see if it still happens: edge://extensions/

     

    if problem happens when going full screen, also try it with hardware acceleration off: edge://settings/system

    • yjhunjhunwala's avatar
      yjhunjhunwala
      Copper Contributor
      Apr 20, 2021

      HotCakeX The problem occurred even with extensions off.

      No custom flags running - Default settings

      Although it was happening in normal window, tried turning off hardware acceleration. Freezing has stopped after that.

      Could you shed some light why hardware acceleration may cause this?

      • HotCakeX's avatar
        HotCakeX
        MVP
        Apr 20, 2021
        I've experienced this too, on my PC using Intel built in GPU, I'm not sure if you're using an Intel GPU too, are you?
        hardware acceleration basically uses your GPU to decode videos you see on the Internet like YouTube, with that turned off, Edge only uses CPU for that task.
        can you also confirm which OS version are you using?

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