Youtube becomes 'slower' over time

stu-carter commented 10 months ago

What happened?

Hi,

After about 12 hours, youtube videos start to exhibit signs of stuttering, dropped frames and becomes very slow to seek to a point in the video. e.g. when seeking, you see the spinning circle for 1 to 2 seconds. After restarting waterfox, the issue is not present.

It's hard to definitively say when this happens, but typically I've had waterfox open for at least 6 hours (not watching youtube all the time). If I launch chrome or edge, the issue is not reproducible, so it is not Windows 11 or my internet connection.

I have not noticed this since the recent upgrade to G6.0.5 - my viewing/browsing habits have not really changed since the upgrade.

Is there anything I can do to help troubleshooting?

Thanks.

Reproducible?

[ ] I have checked that this issue cannot be reproduced on Mozilla Firefox.

Version

G6

What platform are you seeing the problem on?

Windows

Relevant log output

No response

technikker commented 10 months ago

Perhaps related to this issue (see my reply for potential solution)?

https://github.com/WaterfoxCo/Waterfox/issues/3272

ioc2e3 commented 9 months ago

Unless Google ( stops messing around ) ...

Otherwise the problem will appear again and again ...

stu-carter commented 1 week ago

An update - after reading about similar behaviour on the Waterfox Reddit, I disabled the VP9 codec and so far (2 days) it has fixed the problems I reported above (which had become a lot worse in the recent updates).

Here is the thread and the setting to disable - https://www.reddit.com/r/waterfox/comments/1f352v9/comment/llrebec/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

media.mediasource.vp9.enabled = false

MrAlex94 commented 1 week ago

The VP9 decoder has been updated in the 6.5 beta if you want to test it.

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