When I’m watching YouTube videos on Firefox, I often get small freezes of the video with the sound working well and the subtitles also. It can repeat every 5-10 seconds and other times it does not happen over 30-60 seconds. (or more, I’m not truly using a timer of course)
Did not see this bug on Odysee nor on Chromium.
Cause
Not yet known.
FireFox did not have this issue this computer when I used Artix Linux (Arch-based) and Pop OS.
Makes me think of garbage collector behaviors but Firefox is written in Rust, it does not make sense.
Same here. ISP and LAN tested for issues - all is fine, only couple of Linux computers (including F38 box) are having this problem. It started in ~second half of August, after the upgrade within F38 line of upgrades. At the time couldn’t find more people having same/similar issues and thought that’s me unlucky.
I experienced something similar after I installed the Fedora 38.
The issue maybe was after I installed unnecessary mesa drivers from RPMFusion (Howto/Multimedia - RPM Fusion).
In the end of day I kept the mesa-va-drivers and only installed mesa-vdpau-drivers-freeworld.
Of course not the i686 version (used in the 32bits blatforms).
Thank you very much,
I started with fedora 37 and then i upgraded first at Fedora 38 and then at Fedora 39. I hadn’t notice that after fedora 37 it is necessary to install the freeworld version of the mesa drivers to get the video encoders along with the drivers.
This is not always the solution, i have run both the Flatpak firefox, and the .rpm
While I did experience some issues since August, it was mostly because of my use of adblockers and privacy tools. Accepting Cookies and terms on the accounts I use (2 main accounts) The issues went away if I whitelist YouTube. On my alt accounts, the issue persist.
Can confirm, FreeTube is experiencing these issues as they are merely a front end for YouTube and block all ads.
Running the Flatpak can break your workflow with various apps, KeepassXC does not work if both are in a Flatpak. Along with other apps within a Flatpak to Flatpak communication.
Also note Google has been aggresive recently towards Firefox users.
I also have this but I am using Brave as browser. When the picture freezes I have to click the pause button so the sound also stops and then hit play again where the video rushes to catch on with the sound. I not only have that when watching Youtube but also when I watch TV via a website. Now that I know more people have it I know it is not my hardware which makes me kinda happy. No idea what is causing it.