Strange..I can’t imagine why streaming a video would be so RAM intensive on your end. Since we’re using Youtube (popular, well-established platform) I wouldn’t think it’s anything I can fix as the streamer..BUT it just occured to me: I wonder if it’s our website’s chat system. I’ve seen that thing slow down significantly.
I’ll rope in our webdev @nphaskins to see if he can look into the chat being a potential problem. In the meantime here’s a few things you could try:
- Try watching another youtube livestream to see if firefox eats up similarly high RAM usage.
- During the next CGC stream maybe try watching on a different browser like Chrome.
- During the next CGC live stream click the Youtube link in the stream video to watch directly on Youtube. You could close the CGC livestream page (until you wanted to post a comment). This would be a good test to determine if the chat box is the bottleneck.
Sorry for the issue. That’s a major buzzkill when a stream is going on 😕
