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Huge memory useage while palying YouTube videos

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Hi, When i play more then 5min some YouTube video it takes 1Gb+ of RAM and absolutely lagging whole browser which is unusable.

My add-ons : Ublock and NoScript

CPU: Core i7 920 GPU: Radeon rx 480 Firefox version 60.0 (64-bit)

I will be grateful for any advice.

Hi, When i play more then 5min some YouTube video it takes 1Gb+ of RAM and absolutely lagging whole browser which is unusable. My add-ons : Ublock and NoScript CPU: Core i7 920 GPU: Radeon rx 480 Firefox version 60.0 (64-bit) I will be grateful for any advice.

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I understand that when you watch youtube videos that Firefox uses alot of RAM, more than expected.

Can you please report back on these troubleshooting steps to see if there is a difference: Firefox uses too much memory or CPU resources - How to fix