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When I watch videos on YouTube, the computer starts freezing. Sometimes it unfreezes after 10 seconds or so, but sometimes it doesn't. It happens both in Firefox and Chromium, although in Chromium it's not as bad.

I searched through this question and none of the solutions I read about worked for me. Freezing still happens.

How do I solve it?

EDIT: Here's an output of lspci

variecs@variecs-N550JV:~$ lspci -k | grep -EA2 'VGA|3D'
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06)
    Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 11cd
    Kernel driver in use: i915
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01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107M [GeForce GT 750M] (rev a1)
    Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 11cd
    Kernel driver in use: nouveau

EDIT 2: turns out it was a NVIDIA driver issue, reinstalling it helped fix it.

Variecs
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You need to install a driver for your Nvidia adapter.

Run in terminal

sudo apt-get install nvidia-352 nvidia-prime

and reboot.

Pilot6
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If you are using Adobe Flash player, you should know that Adobe Flash Player support and updates for linux platform has been stopped.

you should disable Flash plugin and try html5 video players. fortunately youtube support html5 video.

To disable Flash Plugin you can do as follow:

    Press CTRL+SHIFT+A
    Go to the PLUGIN section, and disable Shockwave flash player.
    Reload the Youtube video. Now It will use HTML 5 player to play it.
Mahdi
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I've had this problem from time to time and what usually works, is to either use alt+tab or if you have workspaces enabled, switching to another one using alt+ctrl+right arrow or something. Then kill the flash-plugin and you should be fine.

Jo-Erlend Schinstad
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