About this tag
The browser video buffering tag covers troubleshooting discussions about videos that repeatedly pause, play unevenly, or fail to start in web browsers. The available discussion describes a sudden problem affecting video playback across multiple sites, including YouTube, rather than a single service. It occurs in both Microsoft Edge and Mozilla Firefox on a clean Windows 11 Home system, with playback appearing to buffer before becoming jumpy or stopping again. This page is relevant for readers investigating browser-wide video buffering, cross-browser playback issues, and settings or system changes that may help identify why online video performance has deteriorated.
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    All of a succen - videos are constantly buffering and jumpy

    Hello all... All of a sudden - without me making any adjustments or changes - whenever I try to play a video in a browser - the video will not play. It looks like it's buffering, or if it does play, it's jumpy and then stops, buffering again. I've now tried this in all of my browsers - mainly...