See if there are updates for your graphics drivers https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/upgrade-graphics-drivers-use-hardware-acceleration

All of my drivers have the latest updates. And I have 32 Gigs of memory, so it's not a memory issue. I tried the setting changes in the article, but it still freezes whenever a news story with an attached video comes up.

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Make sure you are not blocking content.

Diagnose Firefox issues using Troubleshoot(Safe) Mode {web link}

A small dialog should appear. Click Start In Troubleshoot(Safe) Mode (not Refresh). Is the problem still there?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-protection-firefox-desktop

Many site issues can be caused by corrupt cookies or cache.

Warning ! ! This will log you out of sites you're logged in to. You may also lose any settings for that website.

• Delete cookies to remove the information websites have stored on your computer {web link}

• How to clear the Firefox cache {web link}

Here are a few links that are freezing my Firefox browser this morning:

https://finance.yahoo.com/

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/covid-19-delta-variant-may-threaten-consumer-spending-103335039.html

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/rodgers-last-dance-nf-ls-vaccine-measures-5-key-impressions-from-cowboys-camp-020208593.html

I regularly clean up my cookies and cache, so I don't think that's the issue.

One other thing I've noticed, when the page freezes my browser, the memory usage on my PC from Firefox keeps growing like a memory leak. I have a page frozen now and the memory usage on Firefox is over 10 gigs.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-slow-how-make-it-faster

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-many-cpu-resources-how-fix

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-much-memory-ram

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-hangs-or-not-responding

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-takes-long-time-start-up

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/quick-fixes-if-your-firefox-slows-down

MemTest LAST UPDATED : 12/04/2020 Could you please run a tool from http://memtest.org/ in order to check the integrity of your RAM?

You will need a thumb or disk drive to install it on.

Do you let Windows handle the page file or did you set a fixed size ? Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Performance -> Settings

If you use a fixed size for the page file then try the former and let Windows handle the page file. How to determine the appropriate page file size for 64-bit versions of Windows {web link}

I let Windows handle the page files.

I don't think this is a PC issue. When I call up the same pages on Chrome, I don't have any issues at all.

You can have issues with one program without it affecting another. Even with the same type of program.

Did you check out all the links?

I have checked out the links, but I don't see anything there that would appear to help. The problem is with Yahoo new stories that have a video attached to them that automatically loads and plays when you bring up the page. Is there a way to stop videos from playing? I don't need to see them, so if I could stop that it would seem to me that would fix the issue.

I called for more help.

You can look at these prefs on the the about:config page to see what settings work for you to block autoplay.

• media.autoplay.default = 5 [0:allow;1:blockAudible;2:Prompt;5:blockAll]
• media.autoplay.blocking_policy = 2
• media.autoplay.allow-extension-background-pages = false
• media.autoplay.block-event.enabled = true

You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I accept the risk!" to continue.

• https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-config-editor-firefox

• https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-autoplay

I tried those config changes, and still got an auto-play video that froze the browser:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/tucker-carlson-laura-ingraham-mocked-110027089.html

Is there anything being done about this? It still happens, though not as frequently as before. Something new though. I brought up Yahoo Finance, and left it up in the browser when went to get lunch. When I got back about half an hour later, the browser was frozen and when I looked in task manager Firefox was using 17 gigs of memory and growing before I clicked end task.