I tried using it daily as you do, but youtube had stability issues in Chromium a...

rambambram · on Oct 28, 2022

Ubuntu Mate 20.04 is my secret sauce, I guess. I also found Raspbian (or RPi OS as it is now called) to not always perform properly with Youtube.

StillBored · on Oct 28, 2022

Stability issues on RPI's almost always are the result of power and cooling problems.

AKA, use one of the official power adapters, and one of the large 3rd party heatsink/fan combos.

Web browsing on the rpi is painful at best, and when its "working" will be stressing the poor thing to its max, so... see above.

eliasmacpherson · on Oct 28, 2022

it stands up to stress/linpack, I've the flirc case & and official adapter. It may be something to do with trying to accelerate video. Otherwise it has never crashed.

I suspect it's a compilation flag that this ubuntu distro has set correctly that RpiOS has not, I also see some about:config messing to try for another time.

_l4jh · on Oct 28, 2022

I've had much better luck and performance using yt-dlp and mpv to watch YouTube videos on a Pi. It isn't an amazing experience as you would imagine but it is much better than trying to do it in the browser.