How To Fix Screen Flickering While Watching YouTube Videos In Google Chrome, Brave, & Microsoft Edge

How To Fix Screen Flickering While Watching YouTube Videos In Google Chrome, Brave Browser, & Microsoft Edge

In this video I will show you how to stop your screen from flickering while watching YouTube videos. This issue is prevalent in Chromium-based browsers such as Google Chrome, Opera, Brave Browser, and Microsoft Edge.

Steps To Fix Screen Flickering While Watching YouTube Videos In Chromium-based browsers:

1. Open your Chromium browser of choice.
2. Navigate to the top right hand corner and left click on "Customize and control (your browser name here)". Customize and control is at the top right hand corner of your browser and is displayed as one of the following icons depending on your browser:

Microsoft Edge = Three horizontal dots
Brave Browser = Three vertical lines
Google Chrome = Three vertical dots

3. Click on "Settings"
4. A new tab will open taking you into your browser settings. Find a magnifying glass icon or a search box and type the word "hardware" without the quotations.
5. You should now see System settings with three togglable options. Toggle off the system setting "Use hardware acceleration when available".
6. Close your browser by left clicking on the X icon at the top right hand corner of your browser and then reopen your browser or click on the word "Relaunch" next to the toggle to close and reopen your browser automatically.
7. Load a YouTube video of your choice and you should now experience smooth viewing experience without video/screen flickering.

Congratulations you have successfully fixed your screen flickering issue while watching YouTube videos.

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro & Context
0:40 Open Browser Settings
1:16 Navigate to Browser System Settings
1:51 Toggle Off "Use hardware acceleration when available"
2:27 Relaunch Or Restart Your Browser
3:04 Closing & Outro

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[mori]

I almost cried when the screen flickering happened on my brand new monitor and I thought it was the monitor's issue, but this fixed my problem. Thank you ;)

[ArthasFede]

Thank you!! This was driving me crazy since months. I always assume it was a drivers / video issue. The walkaround solved my problem on Brave browser.

[rachelv]

THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART AND SOUL. i’ve had this issue with my macbook from the jump about a year and a half ago. i’ve tried getting this issue fixed at the genius bar and even there they were no help. you seriously don’t even realize how much this helped, last semester i used youtube a lot for some of my classes which were online (the professors would upload their lectures here) and it was so hard for me to copy notes when the screen was constantly flickering. and it was so annoying trying to watch livestreams on youtube because my screen flickered even more on livestreams. thank you so much, this fixed it immediately.

[nandorpap]

OMG!!! Thank you! I just searched the whole internet to fix this problem....I just bought new cables... installed new drivers and spent nearly a month to fix this... I was ready to buy a new monitor when i decided to check for the last time on youtube, maybe i missed one of the videos.... I am so glad i did and i found your video. Non of the solutions worked before.. You just saved me a lot of money! You just won a subscriber!

[totallyrealname]

You're a hero, I'll never understand why there is so much to do when setting up a PC to get it to work properly, so many hidden counter-intuitive settings

[johnsavage]

Thank you so much, as an older (75) person I had already phoned my local computer shop for help. I was taking it down tomorrow and had been quoted $150.00 to fix. I came across your video today and have instantly fixed the problem. Thank you I have liked and subbed.

[BigPatFenis_]

Thank you! This problem has been driving me crazy for months and I didn't even bother to look up a solution. It worked instantly. I should be more proactive about fixing these things. Very helpful video, very simple solution 10/10

[gavinkenway]

This was genuinely a massive help. I’ve been having this issue for a few weeks now with no clue why it was happening. I went and updated all my drivers, tried different monitors, everything I could manage except a new gpu. This solved my issue when nothing else would, thank you so much

[musachi]

Hilariously, my screen flickered exactly when your captured footage did.. I was genuinely freaked out. Seriously though, thank you, this has worked a treat.

[XplicitGamer]

THANK YOU SO MUCH for this fix. I've had this issue for 6 months now and I've noticed it in the new windows 11 update and from then on I thought it was something wrong with my laptop. I had tried everything including consulting the repair shop, and they were all as clueless as me. If only I had seen This video sooner, I would have avoided 6 months of anguish and brain damage. Thank You So Much For This Incredible Fix.

[Miniputt_]

This fixed my screen flickering on youtube, and your video on how to do it was very easy to understand.
Thanks my dude.

[th_child]

this video is 2 years old...But the instructions still work today...Thanks guy, I almost went out to get a new video card, but this fixed my issue

[arifsarikaya]

It's hard to find videos like this anymore. Simple and effective. Thank you!

[mr.anonymous]

THANK 😭😭😭❤❤❤🤣😂🤣😂🌹🌹🌹🌹 I've spent the last 5 hours adjusting every setting & video image & color and definition setting and graphics settings, on both my TV & ACER Nitro laptop trying to figure this out, installing and uninstalling drivers and rolling them back & or updating them again and nothing worked. This was exactly the problem.. My stupid browser.. figures. I AM SO GREATFULL TO YOU! Finding your video saved me from dismantling my laptop again thinking it could be posibly something not connected properly.. who knows what I would have tried next if I didn't stumble on your video. 😆you sir are an 😇

[tteru]

Thank you! this started happening to me only recently and the way the flickering looked made me very worried that it was my GPU causing the issue. Glad it was a simple fix!!

[ahran_b]

Life saver. Netflix player started flickering, I tried to fix it but couldn't so I gave up and went to YouTube, but it started flickering too. It finally stopped now. Thank you.

[LAChantrose]

Thank you so very much! Just switched to Vivaldi from Firefox and thought I was gonna have to go back (which I really didn't want to do) because the flicker was driving me nuts! Solved it instantly.

[baltitooo]

Hello, I almost went crazy because I bought a laptop a few weeks ago and I'm very happy, the games run without stuttering or any kind of remarks. But I couldn't watch youtube and any other videos. I reinstalled drivers but nothing helped until today. Thank you very much, my friend, be very healthy! Very useful video! ❤

[amadeusasimov]

Wow, fixed immediately. Thank you!
I just messed with my Nvidia control panel and this flickering started happening.
I was spending forever trying to sift through my Nvidia settings thinking I messed something up there.
Weird that this is even an issue.

[castlewhispers]

It was happening on Brave, but not on Firefox so I knew it was a browser issue. But I never would have guessed this was the fix. I almost didnt finish watching your video because when you got to the part about the hardware accelerator setting I figured mine was a shoe in since it was already on. But then I listened for just a few more seconds and voila, the most counterintuitive solution; to turn it off. But why? Who knows, but it works!