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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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– CoceCommented May 21, 2017 at 17:49
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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.– MK01Commented May 22, 2017 at 2:42
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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.– CoceCommented May 22, 2017 at 18:35