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jasondee94

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Nov 5, 2022
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Hi everyone! Recently I ran into a problem with my Macbook Pro A1502 (early 2015) that bothered me so much and I could really use your help. This laptop has been crashing several times with glitches on screen and infinite audio loop while playing full-screen YouTube videos with Safari -- the built-in browser in macOS, which hasn't occured at all while I was watching full-screen videos on other sites. By 'crashing' I mean totally frozen -- neither can I move my mouse cursor nor can I get any keyboard feedback. I'd appreciate it if you could help me with this. This has been troubling me for long. Thank you guys soooooo much!
(P. S. I have NOT tested this in any other browser like Google Chrome... as I assume that Google Chrome comsumes more power since it does not support 'METAL' -- the hardware acceleration for graphics. Also, I'm using the default screen resolution. No 'scaled resolution' has been enabled.)
 

HDFan

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Jun 30, 2007
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This laptop has been crashing several times with glitches on screen and infinite audio loop while playing full-screen YouTube videos with Safari

Try in Chrome and Firefox. Don't worry about power when you are diagnosing.
 
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