Security News > 2021 > May > Microsoft Edge crashes when watching full screen YouTube videos
A Microsoft Edge bug is causing the browser to become unresponsive and crash while watching YouTube videos or reading comments.
In our tests, Microsoft Edge would become unresponsive when watching a video, and a circular loading graphic would appear.
According to TechDows, who first reported on this issue, the crashes began after users upgraded to Microsoft Edge 90.
"Thanks for posting this up! Hopefully we can get you into a good state. :)". In our tests, watching YouTube videos on the latest Microsoft Edge Canary fixed the issue, and our browser no longer crashes.
For users who do not wish to install Edge Canary, a Reddit user says you can terminate the Edge sub-process using a lot of CPU and ram to unfreeze the video.
For those affected by the YouTube crashes, you can either try Edge Canary until it's fixed in the Stable release or use a different browser while watching YouTube videos.