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Dev channel update to 88.0.680.1 is live
Mapantz Somebody else experiencing this issue also noticed that, in order to compensate, Youtube was automatically decreasing the resolution of the video. Like, if you let it automatically choose the quality, it will bump itself down to something pitiful like 360p even when you're fullscreen and can use 10x that. Is that happening to you by any chance? Also, when this is happening, do you notice the tab using a lot of CPU according to the browser task manager? It sounds like this might be something specific to your kind of device since it's hardware dependent (turning off acceleration makes it worse) and not specific to your profile, so what kind of CPU and graphics do you have, and are your drivers up to date?
The res doesn't decrease for me.
The video speeds up when I go in to full screen - like 10x faster, but the sound continues as normal. The picture then freezes and the sound continues.
It doesn't do it on every video, but it does do it whether it's 1080p, 2K or 4K etc
CPU spikes to around 20%.
CPU is a Core i9 9900K
Using the onboard intel graphics (UHD 630) drivers are all up to date.
Mapantz Is that 20% according to the browser task manager or Window's task manager? If it's Windows, it sounds like it's maxing out a single core, which means the CPU is likely a victim, since I see no reason why one that new and powerful should be maxing out! I think at this point, since you've got a way to consistently trigger this behavior and it's persisted through multiple Dev updates, we'd need to get more detailed information from you, which can't be done here. If you go to https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/support/request and open a support ticket (and also mention this thread since you've already put so much info here), they'll be able to get the more detailed logs we'll need to get this figured out.