YouTube videos in full-screen mode block Firefox

[Suvayu Ali]

On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 07:35:20PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 7:13 PM, Joe Zeff <joe at zeff.us> wrote:
> >>
> >> Thanks, Doug. It gets full-screen immediately, but with the image and
> >> sound both frozen for one minute or so. Also Firefox freezes for the
> >> same time.
> >
> > Does the window go dark?  If so, that indicates that Firefox is very, very
> > busy; if not, either you don't have things set for that or it's something
> > else causing this.
> 
> Thanks, Joe. You pointed to the right direction: too many open tabs
> (hundreds, I mean) were causing the issue.

My hunch is you were swapping which caused the issue.  Hundreds of tabs
should not be a problem.  I regularly have that many tabs open without
any problems (197 at the moment).  It could be one of the tabs was
consuming a lot of memory forcing FF to swapping.

Cheers,

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Suvayu

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