Youtube Crashing page

[Forgottenleo]

Forgottenleo last edited by

youtube loads pages fine you can hover over videos and will show you the preview but if you click on video and trys for 20 secs to load either add or video then crashes the page. I have done cleared cookies,cashe,restored opera,restart computer and even uninstalled and reinstaled opera and still crashes. i have ran the internet speed test it was 436mbps download and 40mbps upload. i went over to firefox to see if i could run the same video it worked so its not on youtube side. need help plz
i run linux mint 21.3 cinnamon
both tracking and add blocking are off

[gloewa]

gloewa @Forgottenleo last edited by

@Forgottenleo the same with PCLinuxOS. Previous version of opera worked as it should.

Opera User since Version 3.x

[koerch]

koerch last edited by

Can confirm this on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS (amd64), Opera from Flathub.

~$ flatpak list|grep Opera
Opera com.opera.Opera 122.0.5643.17 stable system

[pstawicki]

pstawicki last edited by pstawicki

Same here, Running Linux Mint 21.2 (Mate), recently after updating Opera One to 122.0.5643.17 (system package, not Flathub) it was crashing youtube as descibed by @Forgottenleo
I tried updating uBlockOrigin Quick Fixes but no help. Disablint uBO also did not help either, no OperaAdblock. I do have an Pi-Hole that filters most of the ads.
Maybe now it would work better since there was a recent Chromium update and I have routine that copies the codecs from Chromium after update, but I did not try yet.
What I did was downgrading Opera to 121.0.5600.50 by downloading the opera-stable_121.0.5600.50_amd64.deb from opera ftp, and install it via cmd: sudo dpkg -i opera-stable_121.0.5600.50_amd64.deb

Hope this issue will be fixed soon. For now I will wait till the next Opera version.

[peterhuba]

peterhuba last edited by

Same here, YouTube crashes when attempting to play a video.
Using the Ubuntu-based ZorinOS.
It happens with and without the built-in adblocker turned on.

It seems like the following happens:

• YouTube video's page loads fine
• when clicking the play button (autoplay isn't triggered for some reason), these two requests are being sent and then it crashes right after it:

VM10:414 
 POST https://www.youtube.com/api/stats/qoe?fmt=<... OMITTED PARAMS IN MY EXAMPLE> net::ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT
VM10:414 
 POST https://www.youtube.com/api/stats/qoe?fmt=<... OMITTED PARAMS IN MY EXAMPLE> net::ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT


The blocking appears to happen even if I turn off the built-in ad blocker and have no blocker/privacy extensions installed.