something odd

Anyone experiencing an issue with youtube shorts? here's one, when playing for between 15 to 20 minutes the edge page will just lockup. the only thing going is to close the window. Am i the only one? or am I out of my mind.

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I noticed something similar on YouTube recently, not just in the shorts. The page will lock up, meaning the keyboard cursor and PageUp-PageDown wouldn't work, but using the mouse to click somewhere on the page and then mouse-scroll would. I'm not sure what the solutions are yet, except for what you mentioned—closing the page—but I think backing out of the page also worked for me.

My browser is Firefox ESR 140.8; I haven't tried Edge out yet.

It also happens intermittently when using realplayer music videos off my network