Is anyone else having problems with youtube freezing intermittently for a few seconds even when the video is fully loaded?
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Posted Aug 18, 2009, 8:27 PM UTC · edited
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Yep. You're not alone. Well, you may be alone, I don't know about your personal life. I'm just also having this problem.
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Upvoted out of kinship.
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You have my sword.
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And my ass.
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I'm not touching either of those.
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And My Axe.
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I've found that youtube has just been loading slower in general lately. I've made playlists of music videos that I keep on in the background as I'm working and in the last month or so, half of them don't bugger fast enough to keep from pausing for a couple seconds every 15 secs or so.
edit: I meant to say "buffer", but I'm leaving the typo there for posterity.
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I think it's a flash thing.
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I have the same issue. FireFox, OS X 10.5.8
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Isn't it obvious? The tubes are clogged. Call the plumber.
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I had this problem recently. This may be totally wrong, but it seemed to be related to the new ads they're showing during the videos. I had ABP enabled for youtube, so I disabled it. It seems to have solved the problem.
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It's Firefox. One of your other tabs is spiking the CPU -- this doesn't happen on multi-process browsers like Chrome for instance.
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does too
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Happens on a 4 month old Macbook Pro only running firefox too.
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only when I used Vista.
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without much detail, hard to say, but are you perhaps running windows 7 beta? If so, there is a problem with nvidia network controllers. I had this exact issue with any streamed media (regardless of if the movie is loaded or not). Windows thinks that you have the most recent drivers if you have it auto detect, so the only way around this is to go to nvidia's site and get their newest driver. (maybe try this if your running vista/nvidia network card too?)
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I have four computers with XP and Windows 7, one with an ATI graphics card, one with some other integrated ATI something-or-other, one with an Intel GMA 950, and one with an Intel GMA x4500. All have the same problem, and only with Youtube- not other video streams.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but I think maybe Youtube has issues.
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You should also look into upgrading your flash to the newest version available.
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I blame youtube, they have gone to shit lately
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Yes. It seems to have gone away though. I figured that it was a Firefox post-update glitch.
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Actually, I am confuse
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YESSSSSS!!!!!! FUCKING GOD DAMNIT THIS IS FUCKING ANNOYING IT PISSES THE FUCKING SHIT OUT OF ME OFF!!!!!!!!!! FUCK!!
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Yes. Every damn day.
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I used to have this problem in Firefox, and it was caused by tab data being backed up every ten seconds.
So how do you fix this?
In about:config, change the browser.sessionstore.interval to a higher number. Mine is at 100000.
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Success! Thanks dude!
Will give that a shot and report back.
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:EDIT: Seems to work. Cheers!
I will also say that this seems to have fixed my problem of streaming Netflix (uses Silverlight) intermittently and inexplicably stuttering. Firefox should be ashamed. I still love them, though. Especially since this problem has now been solved. * Maybe it's somehow unrelated, but I know it was an uncorrectable problem before (even with restarts, etc.), and now it's not a problem.
how about in Chrome?
How about in opera? it happens to me a lot too.
i would also love to know how to fix in opera!
Where/how would I access this "about:config"?
There's an explanation here.
Type it into your location bar.
Is there a number that is too large?
I think the longer the interval the greater risk you present to yourself. I myself did set it for 100 seconds. But I use my computer for time wasting. If it was a work computer were I don't watch youtube. I think 10 seconds is actually good. So if the browser crashed at least I have some tabs I was still using instead of... none.
Is that milliseconds?
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wow, that worked great. Thank you very much.
I have been searching about this problem forever, I can't thank you enough!