Palemoon crashes playing Youtube videos

Hi,
from a couple of week, I’m having issues with the palemoon browser: when I play videos on Youtube, the CPU usage increase and the browser became extremely slow, crashing in the end.
I tried to reset the settings to default in safe mode, but the problem persists.
I tried with brave browser, and it works perfectly

My hardware:

[salome@salome ~]$ inxi -Fxzmi
System:
  Kernel: 4.4.268-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0 
  Desktop: GNOME Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASRock model: G41M-VS3. serial: <filter> 
  BIOS: American Megatrends v: P1.60 date: 09/09/2011 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 3.86 GiB used: 1.25 GiB (32.4%) 
  RAM Report: 
  permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:
  Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core2 Quad Q9650 bits: 64 type: MCP 
  arch: Penryn rev: A cache: L2: 6 MiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 23946 
  Speed: 2992 MHz min/max: N/A Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2992 2: 2992 3: 2992 
  4: 2992 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nouveau 
  v: kernel bus-ID: 04:00.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: nouveau 
  resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo> 
  OpenGL: renderer: NVA8 v: 3.3 Mesa 21.0.3 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio vendor: ASRock 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 
  Device-2: NVIDIA High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 04:00.1 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.4.268-1-MANJARO running: yes 
  Sound Server-2: sndio v: N/A running: no 
  Sound Server-3: JACK v: 0.125.0 running: no 
  Sound Server-4: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
Network:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR8152 v2.0 Fast Ethernet vendor: ASRock 
  driver: atl1c v: 1.0.1.1-NAPI port: dc00 bus-ID: 01:00.0 
  IF: enp1s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link 
  WAN IP: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 6.37 TiB used: 82.84 GiB (1.3%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD60EFRX-68L0BN1 
  size: 5.46 TiB 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Western Digital model: WD10EZRX-00A8LB0 
  size: 931.51 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 98.88 GiB used: 82.8 GiB (83.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb3 
  ID-2: /boot size: 495.8 MiB used: 46.7 MiB (9.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb1 
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 5.03 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) 
  dev: /dev/sdb2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 32.5 C mobo: 29.0 C gpu: nouveau temp: 37.0 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 1985 fan-1: 763 fan-3: 0 fan-4: 0 fan-5: 0 
  Power: 12v: N/A 5v: N/A 3.3v: 3.33 vbat: 3.30 
Info:
  Processes: 194 Uptime: 5h 53m Init: systemd Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 
  clang: 11.1.0 Packages: 1223 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 inxi: 3.3.04

OK… yeah, now it’s clear :

https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=24831&sid=d9b47fdf80331ee29bf8723182d0120a

As usual :

FU*K GOOGLE

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See if creating these in about:config helps:

general.useragent.override.youtube.com
general.useragent.override.google.com

Both setted on

Mozilla/5.0 (%OS_SLICE% rv:71.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/71.0 PaleMoon/29.2.0

I risk to crash the browser every time, it doesn’t work for me

Resolved using Ublock origin an masking the spinningContainer (the spinner that apper when you load page contents)

My list for an unbloated youtube experience:

www.youtube.com###guide-content
www.youtube.com##.size-small.style-suggestive.ytd-masthead.style-scope
www.youtube.com###top-level-buttons
www.youtube.com##.size-default.style-destructive.ytd-video-secondary-info-renderer.style-scope > .ytd-button-renderer.style-scope.yt-simple-endpoint
www.youtube.com###continuations > .ytd-item-section-renderer.style-scope
www.youtube.com##.opened
www.youtube.com###dialog
www.youtube.com###spinnerContainer
www.youtube.com###guide-wrapper
www.youtube.com###guide
www.youtube.com###start
www.youtube.com###end
www.youtube.com###menu-container

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