When I go to YouTube, the browser becomes a little slow

[julio321]

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Description of the issue:
When I go to YouTube and play or preview a video, the YouTube page starts flickering and the browser becomes very slow. Then, when I access brave://gpu/, I see that the hardware acceleration features are disabled. After that, the CPU temperature starts rising from 45°C to 68°C, the browser becomes slow, and videos lag.
How can this issue be reproduced?

1. I open YouTube.

2. I hover the cursor over any video to preview it or select it to play.

3. The YouTube page starts flickering, hardware acceleration is disabled, the browser becomes slow, and videos lag.

Expected result:

Prevent the browser from becoming slow when accessing YouTube.

Brave Version( check About Brave): Brave 1.87.191 (Compilación oficial) (64 bits)

Chromium: 145.0.7632.120

Additional Information:

Things I’ve already tried:

- Cleared cookies and history.

- Reset the browser to factory settings.

- Removed all extensions.

- Created a new user profile with nothing installed.

- Reinstalled the browser from scratch using the official channels.

- Disabled hardware/GPU acceleration.

- I tried Brave beta and Brave Nightly and the problem is the same.I tried the Brave version in a flatpak package, ironically it works very well even though the Brave download website warns us that it doesn’t work well and I wasn’t able to replicate the problem, it only happens with the official packages.

I tried all of that, and the problem persists. I tested other browsers, and they work fine. Again, this only happens on Linux Mint 22.3; I haven’t tried other distributions.

Here’s a video where I demonstrate the problem.

Brave Bug

**My System:
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System:
Kernel: 6.17.0-14-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.3.0 clocksource: hpet
Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.6.7 tk: GTK v: 3.24.41 wm: Muffin v: 6.6.3 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.30.0
Distro: Linux Mint 22.3 Zena base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble
Machine:
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Chassis: type: 10 v: IdeaPad 3 14ALC6 serial:
Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: SDK0T76463WIN serial:
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v: GLCN51WW date: 09/28/2022
Battery:
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CPU:
Info: quad core model: AMD Ryzen 3 5300U with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP smt: enabled
arch: Zen 2 rev: 1 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 2 MiB L3: 4 MiB
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5: 1397 6: 1397 7: 1397 8: 1397 bogomips: 41521
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temp: 41.0 C
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Display: x11 server: X .Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu
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Bluetooth:
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[fanboynz]

HW Acceleration being disabled will offload video decode to the CPU, which is much slower

[MasterLink]

My experience with anything Chrome on Linux is that a lot of times, GPU acceleration just turns off.

If you go to brave://flags and look for this setting, enabling it should kickstart it, if your GPU is working correctly (even though Chrome/Brave thinks it’s not).

[julio321]

Thank you for your response, but I’ve already enabled what you suggested, and the problem persists. When monitoring brave://gpu/, the functions are disabled when I open YouTube and preview a video with the mouse pointer. Clicking on a video causes lag, the CPU temperature rises, and the fans start running. However, this doesn’t happen with the Flatpak package; the GPU functions are always active, and the CPU stays cool.

[MasterLink]

@julio321

but I’ve already enabled what you suggested

Sorry, didn’t know. You didn’t mention this in what troubleshooting you’ve done.

@julio321

However, this doesn’t happen with the Flatpak package; the GPU functions are always active, and the CPU stays cool.

Now this is interesting, I’ll leave this one with a dev because that is quite interesting and might be a corrupt file (possibly Local State).

[julio321]

I have hardware acceleration enabled, but the problem is that it automatically disables when I preview or play a video on YouTube. The browser then starts to slow down, and the CPU temperature rises considerably. This doesn’t happen with other browsers.

[julio321]

Sorry, didn’t know. You didn’t mention what troubleshooting you’ve done.

In the “Things I’ve already tried” section, it mentions all the measures I applied to try to find the solution.

Now this is interesting, I’ll leave this one with a dev because that is quite interesting and might be a corrupt file (possibly Local State).

Thanks, another thing I can mention is that it only happens on this system. I have a desktop PC with the same Linux distribution and the same kernel and there are no problems with the browser; it seems to only fail on this hardware configuration.

[MasterLink]

@julio321

In the “Things I’ve already tried” section, it mentions all the measures I applied to try to find the solution.

Nowhere once did you mention you went into flags to override the software rendering list.

That’s also an older un-edited quote which was edited a bit before you replied, but it stands.

(“this in” was added)

Nowhere.

With that, I’m gonna let someone else help. I’m not keen on this kind of “I already said…” when your post is still there and no, not once did you actually say that step.

@julio321

• Disabled hardware/GPU acceleration.

Since I’m fairly certain you’ll point to this, this does not once mention or infer flags. This infers the primary setting under brave://settings/system which would be…

These two are not the same.

[julio321]

Override software rendering list

Overrides the built-in software rendering list and enables GPU-acceleration on unsupported system configurations. – Mac, Windows, Linux, ChromeOS, Android

#ignore-gpu-blocklist

Sorry, I don’t think I understood myself well, my English is not very good, I meant that I enabled the “Override software rendering list” section, as you suggested, but the problem persists.