YouTube bug is eating up 7GB of ram and an ad blocker is the only way to solve it
(funny enough, a lot of people have been saying it's youtube forcing ads, but that's not the issue, nor is this intentional)
YouTube bug causes browser tabs to consume 7GB+ RAM through infinite button layout loops, freezing systems across Firefox, Chrome, and Edge
“your YouTube tab just consumed 7GB of RAM and froze your entire browser.
That’s not user error or aging hardware—it’s YouTube’s latest interface bug turning routine video watching into system roulette.
Reports flooded Reddit and browser forums late last week as users watched their browsers transform into digital quicksand, with tabs becoming unresponsive and entire systems grinding to a halt.”
The main issue is the Like, Dislike, and Share buttons
“Developers tracking the issue through Mozilla’s Bugzilla pinpointed the problem to YouTube’s flexible menu container below each video.
The interface enters an endless identity crisis: it checks whether all buttons fit horizontally, hides the overflow, recalculates the available space, then shows them again—repeating this cycle thousands of times per second.
Think of it like someone obsessively rearranging furniture in a room that keeps changing size.”
All browsers are experiencing the same thing
Google has said nothing
Reports have said that a temporary fix is to use ublock origin and Add this filter: www(.)youtube(.)com###menu
This removes the buttons under the player but immediately stops the memory leak and freezing.
