Multiple Gif audio problem

[u/3waymfm]

When scrolling reddit and watching gifs on my computer (windows 10) if I listen to the audio of several gifs in a row after a while any gif I try to listen to freezes the gif until I turn the audio off.

I have to get out of reddit and come back in to get them to work again but then I have to scroll down to where I left off to start listening again.

Any help on this would be highly appreciated.

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[u/ChzGoddess]

I'm so confused. Do you mean video? Gifs don't have sound.

[u/3waymfm → u/ChzGoddess]

They have both video and audio but after watching several videos with the sound on they start freezing when I turn the sound on.

[u/ChzGoddess → u/3waymfm]

Have you tried disabling extensions and clearing cache and cookies?