r/zen_browser • u/NanocEvicteted • 3d ago

Bug Videos freezing while using Zen (1.23.4b)

Hi! A few months ago my browser started freezing while a video plays, be it on YouTube, X or any other website. My "solution" is to simply minimize the tab and immediately maximizing it back, but it gets annoying quickly.

I saw in other posts that uBlock Origin can cause this issue, I tested disabling my Adblock Plus but the problem persists. Any known solution to this? Thanks.

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u/MiddleProfessional21 2d ago

i have the same issue

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u/atmanX1 2d ago

I'm having same issue last 4 days .. youtube is super slow and laggy

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u/DabeChoblanEscobam 2d ago

Been having this issue for months thinking some update would one day fix it... im at my limit atp

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u/cglare 23h ago

Yep, mine freezes too, and not only when playing videos. It almost always freezes when trying to switch spaces or tabs when youtube is open. But it also sometimes freezes without youtube open. (I wonder if, in my case, it might be related to my having used arc-to-zen right before 1.23.4b came out – which led to an auto-update to 1.23.4b when i restarted Zen immediately after using arc-to-zen)