May you give an example of a web page that triggers the issue? (e.g. if it's a video, link to the specific video if possible) Also, have you tried another browser such as Chromium or Epiphany?
>From the following lines it looks like it's a media plugin that's taking up all your CPU which is causing the stuttering issues you are seeing. 3095 matti 20 0 351m 90m 21m R 130 4.5 8:10.74 plugin-containe 1766 matti 9 -11 161m 5784 4192 S 17 0.3 0:45.08 pulseaudio 1875 matti 20 0 619m 213m 33m S 17 10.6 11:09.95 firefox As a potential workaround for Youtube (as I suspect the Flash Player), you may want to try to enable HTML5 (rather than Flash): http://www.youtube.com/html5 ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006843 Title: ubuntu 12.04 freezes and othertimes get very slow when wathing on youtube to the point that i need to reeboot the computer To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1006843/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
