code-charity
🐞Going on a channel/Videos the Add-On causes page freeze
Concise Description
Going to channel/videos the Add-On causes page freeze but only for some channels and not all.
"This page is slowing down Firefox. To speed up your browser, stop this page." Then you can click "Stop" and the tab closes.
Browser/s
Firefox
Other Browser:
'Steps to reproduce' - Which of our features is required for the bug to happen?
I activated hotkeys for video speed in your addon (dont know if it has anything to do with that) -> But going on some channels then on Videos causes the page to freeze and show the message as shown in the image
Since when?
approx. 2 months
Does the bug still happen when you log out of YouTube?
None
..No? Then please paste your yt.config_.EXPERIMENT_FLAGS. Twice (With the error & Without)
No response
Are any errors or related log-messages shown in the Browser-Console? (F12)
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Tested as the only active extension? (incognito mode or another browser users):
Yes
Expected preferred behavior:
Videos clickable without page freeze
ImprovedTube Version
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Your Settings (From the Extension's ⋮-Hamburger menu > Settings > Backup & reset > Export settings)
Your YouTube-Document
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OS / Device:
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I am also currently experiencing this exact issue on Firefox on some channels. It hangs when switching to the video tab on a channel page. I can either wait to receive the message from Firefox and the page will close or if I copy the url quick, close the tab, and paste the url back into a new tab the page opens fine.
I'm not sure what is actually causing this leak but 90% of the time when I click on the video tab it begins to hang and will consume all of your ram and crash, if you were to let it.
I have a video of the problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2JhORymrso
And I have the .json file that corresponds with my Improve YouTube settings. improvedtube.json
The video shows that whenever I click on a "videos" tab the memory leak happens but when I disable "Improve YouTube" the tab displays correctly.
I have tested it and confirmed the same results while using: Windows 10 and Windows 11 Firefox 129-133 (both x86 and x64 versions) AddOn version: 4.1185, it was also in at least several older versions.
I have not tested the issue with Chrome.
It has been going on for a few months now but i just avoided clicking the videos tab and putting off writing a bug report.
I hope someone is able to make more out of this than me.
I am also having this issue which is reflected in https://github.com/code-charity/youtube/issues/2779#issuecomment-2732075449
I've found out that whenever is a blocklist enabled, it causes this behaviour. It does NOT matter if there are any entries in the blocklist at all. I.e. even if the channels/videos lists are empty it will still cause a crash as long as the blocklist feature is activated.
I've found out that whenever is a blocklist enabled, it causes this behaviour. It does NOT matter if there are any entries in the blocklist at all. I.e. even if the channels/videos lists are empty it will still cause a crash as long as the blocklist feature is activated.
Yep, something about the blocklist continues to loop when loading a new category, videos/playlist/shorts/ect, on a creator's homepage. The solution is just to not have the blocklist enabled. What browser are you using, btw? I wonder because I don't know if it also effects Chrome.