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I have a fairly old laptop running Windows 7 32bit. It is slow but good enough to watch fullscreen videos in media player. However watching anything on youtube is plain impossible. It starts fine but after a few minutes (even not fullscreen) gets insanely choppy with CPU utilization sitting at 100% (taken by Chrome).
The system is clean and performs more or less ok otherwise.

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Do you have Chrome to the latest version?

Try emptying caches, editing cookies, and restarting the browser.

Try to view the video in an incognito mode.

Enable Javascript, go to Settigs-> Show advanced settings-> in the Privacy section click Content Setting-> in the Javascript section select Allow JavaScript to run on all sites (recommended). Restart Chrome.

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  • Incognito mode has the same problem.
    – MK01
    Commented May 19, 2017 at 17:46
  • Try removing hardware acceleration, go to Google Chrome's settings and in the search bar search for "hardware" and uncheck if it is present. Also try to update the Flash Player
    – Coce
    Commented May 21, 2017 at 17:49
  • yeah that didn't help. I ended up throwing in a small SSD drive and reinstalling windows. It is better now, but of course i don't know whether it is SSD, clean Windows or slightly different drivers that made the difference.
    – MK01
    Commented May 22, 2017 at 2:42
  • Another solution could be to remove all garbage and temporary files, cookies,malware,spyware and the like through a completely free and reliable software, called SUPERAntispyware. These files can cause slowdowns across the computer, especially on the browser.
    – Coce
    Commented May 22, 2017 at 18:35

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