Comment by laserbeam
2 years ago
I've recently done a pc upgrade and am now enjoying 64 gigs of ram. Decided to watch a live stream on youtube this weekend.
Firefox: 22 GB of ram usage for the youtube tab after ~15 minutes. Tab became unresponsive.
Edge: Out of memory error after ~5 minutes.
Chrome: working fine, the youtube tab sitting peacefully ay 400-600 MB.
I don't know what your problem is exactly but this is not normal behavior on Firefox at least. Check your extensions to begin with, or for a quick test, try watching a video in a prvivate tab.
Just, ublock origin, a password manager, and the kagi extension for my search engine. ublock origin was installed on all browsers. I'm not even trying to watch it without ublock, as that would be an unreasonable thing to do in general.
I know this is not normal behaviour, and it's likely unintetional, but I'll be damn sure google won't bother to fix it. I'm most surprised by Edge as it's running chromium and it should share some similarity to chrome.
Not sure what is specific in your setup but I have watched numerous live stream on firefox and tab never became unresponsive. Haven't checked the ram but my laptop had half of yours and the live were running for an hour or so.
I had the same issue, it turned out to be some random addon I installed years ago. Check if the problem also occurs with everything but uBlock Origin disabled.