Are all my tabs causing Youtube to be stuttery?

[LTX]

Often when I'm watching something on Youtube (usually not HD), the video lags and stutters every few seconds. My internet connection is not the problem. Is it because I have 12 tabs open in Firefox? That really doesn't seem like THAT many...

I have searched and did not find anything relevant.

 

[r.j.s]

It might be, what is in those tabs?

 

[LTX]

Gmail, forum, MacRumors, other forum, school site, other forum, Twitter, Reddit and a couple articles found there, and Youtube.

 

[r.j.s]

Probably, that is a lot of stuff to process by one app, in addition to video.

 

[LTX]

Why doesn't content just get paged to the hard drive when not in use, or just not processed? Most of the stuff I haven't tabbed to for hours, it's just there to remind me to look at it later. I'd expect proper memory management from something like Firefox

Maybe I should try Safari 4, I hear it's 42x faster than IE7 at processing JavaScript.

 

[rjphoto]

Well, you could try closing a few tabs to see if the video plays better!