YouTube always hangs up
If you have the problem that YouTube keeps hanging up at regular intervals, there are several reasons for this. For example, programs could be out of date or severely affect performance, but a Firefox function could also lead to the error. Most problems can be easily checked and corrected if necessary.
Common causes of errors in Firefox
If YouTube keeps hanging up when playing a video, this can have various causes of errors, which are best checked one after the other:
- First of all, this may be due to the fact that your Firefox version is too old and therefore cannot optimally display the latest functions of websites. You can check this, depending on which Firefox version you are using, in the menu item "Help" with "Update Firefox" or "About Firefox".
- When playing YouTube videos, you also need the Flash Player, which you should also update if necessary. The easiest way to check whether your version is up-to-date is to use the Plugin check check from Mozilla. If there is a newer version, you should click on the yellow "Update" button to the right of "Shockwave Flash".
- In addition, installed add-ons can significantly slow down the performance of Firefox and thus also the displayed content or even cause the content to hang. To rule out this possibility, you can start Firefox in what is known as "safe mode", in which the add-ons are deactivated, among other things. The easiest way to do this is to click on "With deactivated add-ons ..." under "Help" and confirm this with "Restart". To exit the mode again, all you have to do is restart Firefox.
- Lastly, the problem could also be that your computer is overloaded because another process is using too many resources. You can find this out via the Task Manager, which you can start with a right-click on the Windows taskbar. In your toolbar you will then see the current workload of your computer or can also see this in the "Processes" tab. If you should have a full load, you can find out the process that is responsible for the load by clicking on "CPU". Quit this program or, if necessary, run a virus scan on your computer if the entry does not tell you anything.
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YouTube is still hanging
If your viewed videos are still jerking or YouTube hangs up completely, this could be due to the session recovery.
- This automatically saves the open tabs every ten to fifteen seconds so that you can open them again at the exact location you are currently viewing in the event of a Firefox crash. However, this function can cause YouTube to jerk or jerk every ten to fifteen seconds even hangs because too many tabs are open at once and your PC is overloaded with the amount to be processed is.
- Of course, to fix this, you could just have fewer tabs open when you're on YouTube Video play. It would be more convenient, however, if you simply increase the time interval for saving.
- You can do this in the configuration menu of Firefox, which you can call up with the address "about: config". If necessary, click on the button "I will be careful ..." and then enter the text "browser.sessionstore" in the search field above. Then double-click on the first entry "browser.sessionstore.intervall" and then enter the desired time interval. Since many YouTube videos should only last about five minutes, you could enter, for example, "300,000", which corresponds to 300,000 milliseconds, so 300 seconds and thus 5 minutes. Click OK and then close configuration.
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