Suspected YouTube bug spikes RAM over 7gbs users report lag and frozen tabs

I'm amazed by how bad web browsers are at handling web pages requests for too much RAM. I have an html files with just a one-line JavaScript command to create a 1 GiB array, that I open a few tabs of, whenever I need to stress test a computer:

    var allocation = new Array(1073741824).fill(0);

For an ecosystem that is so VM-heavy, I'm surprised there isn't a system like Linux cgroups, to limit the CPU and RAM usage of any given page.

I'm glad I'm not the only one, this was giving me big problems, with Firefox on my mac

I'd click on a youtube video, nothing would happen, and I'd tab over to my CPU monitor (which I kept running for just this purpose.) and I'd see the load up around 230%. I'd have to kill the process and usually give up on the video. It would only happen to some videos, but consistently the same ones. And I'd definitely see a problem with the buttons below the video - seemed like when the tab locked up sometimes the far right button would be rendered beneath the column on the right, like the reflow failed.

I haven't seen it happen again in the last few days.

I am glad someone is writing about this youtube on Chrome desktop regularly consumes over 1 gig of ram. Even running it on FF with uBlock doesn't seem to help much.

When I use 3rd party yt sites like skipvids.com I rarely go above 300 mb of ram

YouTube is a website to list videos and play videos, it shouldn’t have to be this complicated.

I have experienced this with Zen on mac. Time to try out alternative frontends.

Definitely experienced this as my macOS ran out of ram multiple times freezing all apps meanwhile Firefox was using something like 20 gigs at the time of freeze

Google playstore sucks. Their stats lags sometimes by days.

Google has figured out perhaps quality isn't needed to keep customers around.

“Google says 75% of the company's new code is AI-generated”

„Fix the performance regression due to the menu layout recalculation loop bug. Make no mistake.“

bigquery studio will do this on a fresh page load.