We’ve shared some complaints about the issue by affected users below: ( Source) Nonetheless, now it seems that some users are being troubled by the autoplay function on YouTube since the option does not seem to stay off even after manually disabling it multiple times. Thus, the autoplay feature on YouTube is a genius idea from the company to encourage viewers to spend more time on the site or app. In fact, the more videos you end up watching the more money YouTube earns.
Original story (published on December 11, 2020) follows:Īdmit it, we’ve all gone down the YouTube autoplay road at least once and ended up spending hours watching random content ranging from cat videos to conspiracy theories and everything in between.īeing one of the biggest video-sharing platforms in the world, there’s almost an endless catalog of videos to watch on the platform that YouTube wants viewers to get hooked on.
However, this workaround too has been a hit and miss.New updates are being added at the bottom of this story……. One of the workarounds mentioned in the posts was to head to the browser’s task manager (by hitting shift+esc) and ending the task that is consuming the most resources. However, the mentioned problem reported by users seems to be a different one, where YouTube begins loading the video in full-screen and then freezes the browser, often causing a crash. To be clear, the Redmond firm has been tracking issues with YouTube playback caused by some ad blocking extensions in the Dev channel builds. Additionally, the company is also requesting feedback and crash reports from those that have been affected. The individual added that those facing browser crashes can try downloading and running the latest Canary builds to check if their issues have been addressed via the bug fix that’s implemented in that version of the browser. However, the same engineer confirmed yesterday on Reddit that the bug is likely more significant and that there are a “couple of situations around this”. Reddit threads detailing the issue ( spotted by Techdows) date back to 15 days ago, with more users running stable version 90 builds seemingly starting to be plagued in the recent days.Ī response from a Microsoft engineer in the forums two weeks ago urged users to try disabling hardware acceleration as a workaround. Reports have been pouring in about users facing constant browser crashes when streaming videos on YouTube. If you have been facing issues with streaming YouTube videos on Microsoft Edge, you may not be alone.
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