About this tag
The edge and firefox tag brings together discussion of browser video playback problems affecting Microsoft Edge and Mozilla Firefox. The available thread describes videos that repeatedly buffer, play unevenly, or stop across multiple websites, including YouTube, despite no reported user changes. It is framed as a Windows 11 Home troubleshooting question and includes system details such as 96 GB of RAM and an Nvidia graphics card. Visitors can use this page to follow troubleshooting around shared browser behavior, video playback, and settings when the same symptoms appear in both Edge and Firefox. The conversation focuses on identifying what to check when streaming performance changes unexpectedly.
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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...