I’m using Mozilla Firefox 128.5.1esr.
I’m having problems trying to watch videos on Youtube, where it keeps crashing. I don’t know what it could be.
Right at the begin of the video, or somewhere later. When somewhere later always on the same place with the same video?
Thus only the video “crash” (and what does that mean exactly?) or thus Firefox crash.
Please some more detail for those that can not look over your shoulder.
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Try with another browser … same crashes??
From the beginning of the video. The video has its frames frozen, as if I were running an extremely heavy game. That was an analogy.
And is that after some update, or directly your first video after system installation?
Did you follow the advice to switch Vendor to Packman to get full multi-media support?
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It is from the installation. I didn’t put pacman repository.
Then that is the first thing to do before complaining about not proper functioning multi-media.
To add The Packman repository (as root):
zypper ar -cfp 90 'https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Leap_$releasever/' packman
To do the Vendor switch (again of course as root):
zypper dup --from packman
Then try your videos again an report here.
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You run noscript?? be sure to allow all the needed URLs. Had the same problem (some google change???) Video would run for about 5 min then freeze. Allowing more in noscript fixed it here
I did what he indicated. But the repository installed old versions and there were conflicts. I removed it and decided not to use it. For example, ffmpeg was an older version.
Sorry, but this is unclear. Exactness is requires for those that can not look over your shoulder. Showing with copy/paste is much better then any story telling.
And when you gave changed your repo list, please show a new listing.
That should have been
sudo zypper dup --from packman --allow-vendor-change
You are probably correct. I always thought that zypper would be “clever” enough to understand that dupping from a particular repo would include vendor changing. But I am wrong, or it change over time.
Pretty much Firefox or any browser for that matter will run Youtube out of the box
zypper lr -d
Will show us your repos
inxi -F
will tell us about your system and hardware
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@marleysantos439 Using firefox release (stable, v133.x) and developer edition (beta, v134.x) and me, too, I have experienced freezes in a similar way you are describing. I have lots of privacy and security addons in my firefox’es.
However, freezing mostly went away when running firefox in troubleshooting mode where addons are turned off. In my view, the issue comes from privacy and anti tracking or anti fingerprinting gear.
A friend of mine suggested installing brave browser, and - voila - that provides for a 2nd chance. If some video would freeze on YouTube on firefox, just copy its URL over to brave and off you go.
In your case, crashing / freezing might stem from using NoScript. Well, you use NoScript for a reason, so use it and get yourself another browser, maybe brave is a good choice for you, too.
BTW, the crashing / freezing sets in right when our ublock or noscript gear does its job blocking an ad on YouTube. In the old days, Google would not care, but now they are more inclined to dole out pain for those who try to block their ads.
Maybe this is not the answer you were hoping for, same for me! However, blocking ads on YouTube plus Googles ways countering it seems to stay with us for some time, so maybe installing different browsers on your system - just in case - is the way to go?
Hope it helps! - Regards, M.
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I experienced recently crashes of youtube videos after exactly one minute with FF 133.0.3. The culprit seems to be NoScript, in my case I had to (temporary) allow “jnn-pa.googleapis.com”, which is “experimental and far from being complete yet.” On the other hand, uBlock Origin still works fine. Hope this helps.
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I solved the problems by removing Firefox that is installed on the system and placing Firefox on Flatpak instead.
To remove Firefox from the system use:
sudo zypper rm firefox -y
Then access Flathub at Install Firefox on Linux | Flathub
And then install it following the steps shown or via the command line:
flatpak install flathub org.mozilla.firefox
Remembering that you need to have Flatpak activated on your machine.
If you don’t know how to activate, go to:
In response, I left a step-by-step guide on how I solved it.
I had to install Firefox on Flatpak, that’s the only way it worked.
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