MacBook Pro freezing while streaming YouTube video

Do any owners of M1 MacBook Pro 16" know why my machine running Catalina sometimes freezes while streaming a YouTube video and has to be hard rebooted? Does anyone know a fix?

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Posted on Jul 24, 2022 10:38 PM

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kaz-k

Level 9

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Jul 25, 2022 5:44 AM in response to Mark2ain

Hi,

You would better upgrade your MacBook Pro to Monterey which could solve the issue, though you should get backup by Carbon Copy Cloner or TimeMachine before update to Monterey in a case you would face with trouble.

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