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CPU slows to a crawl when playing Youtube 118.0.1

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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Intel® Core™ i7-3520M CPU @ 2.90GHz × 4

Intel® HD Graphics 4000 (IVB GT2)

No dedicated graphics, just the intel graphics

I accidentally updated from 117 to 118.0.1 today (usually I skip every other update). Since then playing Youtube videos tends to slow the processor to a crawl with high CPU utilization, while RAM utilization remains low, and even other programs are very slow to interact with until the playing Youtube tab is closed.

I'm guessing this is related to the CVE-2023-5217 fix?

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739
Making moves

It seems to be working fine now, maybe it was another transient issue.