Random YouTube videos almost cause system halt with lag in Chromium on Debian 9.8 i686. Drivers and web browser seem up to date.
Most YouTube videos, for example this video plays with no issues whatsoever, nice and smooth, with at most 720p resolution.
Some videos others videos like this one and this one almost crash the browser, and on one occasion simultaneously caused the chromium process to consume 70% CPU usage and stop responding.
Unimaginable lag.
I can't see any rhyme or reason to these issues, and they make YouTube close to un-usable.
The hardware could be considered underpowered, but a lot of HD video plays fine.
I have tried other browsers, Iceweasel plays them but plays all videos slowly, Midori, Xombrero, and Minitube don’t play at all.