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apaz

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Registered: 2018-07-23

Posts: 130

[SOLVED] Youtube freezes with Firefox

For the past few days watching Youtube videos on Firefox has become impossible; continuous freezes and even crashes. From the "journal" I get an incredible number of messages but I am not able to interpret them. There are also systemd-coredump. I suspect it all started with the last QT update, but I've tried clearing the KDE cache and rebuilding "kbuildsycoca5" but no improvement. Enabling/disabling hardware acceleration on Firefox is useless. I use X11 but it's the same with Wayland too.
With Chromium's appimage it works fine.
I leave the journalctl link if you can help to find the cause of the problem.
journal.txt

Last edited by apaz (2022-03-12 09:07:36)

chrisgrul

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Registered: 2022-01-10

Posts: 8

Re: [SOLVED] Youtube freezes with Firefox

Looks like RDD is crashing, might be a bug in Firefox, try Googling RDD crashing Firefox. I don't know much about it.

In the meantime you could try a Firefox-based browser like Firedragon (AUR), see if you have similar issues, otherwise use a Chromium based browser as an alternative

apaz

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Registered: 2018-07-23

Posts: 130

Re: [SOLVED] Youtube freezes with Firefox

Thanks; following your suggestion I solved it by setting the option to "false":

media.rdd-ffmpeg.enabled

I guess that way I lose hardware acceleration; but never mind.

Last edited by apaz (2022-03-12 09:08:37)