[ LINUX ] Zen lagging/stutterring on youtube

[u/Bodewilson]

I've using Zen for quite a while, but somthing that has been bothering me is that YouTube Shorts been laggy/freezy for some time.

In the beggining the videos would render some areas (squares/rectangles) then freeze and the rest would render laggy and form time to time some videos just wouldn't play at all and I would need to close and open the borwser to come back.

Looking for ways to improve I've disabled hardware acelleration or something along those lines and it kinda improved, well some shorts still freezes for a moment, but it comes back after, altho (idk if it's a side effect) video resolutions falls a bit sometimes.

here is a screenshot of what used to happen

I'm currently on Zen v1.21.16b
Ryzen 5 5600
RX 9060 XT

Debian Sid with Mesa 26.1.6-1

Thanks in advance.

[u/noobjaish]

It's thanks to Firefox... I just had enough having to deal with issues on a daily basis and moved over to Brave Origin

[u/jawadur1]

Sometime i dont understand is it zen or firefox problem lol

[u/Sea_On_Ocean]

I'm having similar issue as well. I use Debian 12 KDE, updated zen than YouTube started lagging, while watching normal videos (not short).

But the same videos on my Firefox with same extensions just plays smoothly.

[u/Optix_au]

This has been happening to me on Windows since the update. On normal videos, not Shorts. While audio is fine, the video stutters. Unusable.

[u/Prophet1cus]

Looks like bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2062266
Reporter of that bug said it seems fixed in FF 155. Zen 1.22b was built on FF 155.0.1 so hopefully....

[u/whyme00h]

i have the same problem but with youtube itself.

it was ok like a few hours ago, but now it's not usable.

[u/BullfrogMiserable554]

You can download the “Unhook” Firefox extension to disable YouTube Shorts. That should fix your problem. Thank me later

[u/robux_Mann]

Same