System Freezes when I stream something - Mint 20.1 Cinnamon

[karavind]

When I stream somthing in my browser (Chrome/Firefox) the system freezes after sometime. Usually it happens when I try to exit from fullscreen using Esc. It also freezes when I open a website with streaming content in it. For 2-3 seconds the mouse point stutters then it freeze completely. I gave to reboot to get things back to normal.

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System:
  Kernel: 5.4.0-72-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0 
  Desktop: Cinnamon 4.8.6 wm: muffin 4.8.1 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 
  Distro: Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Notebook v: Type1ProductConfigId 
  serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: HP model: 80C1 v: 96.44 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde v: F.1E 
  date: 12/25/2015 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 14.0 Wh condition: 14.0/41.4 Wh (34%) volts: 16.8/14.8 
  model: COMPAL PABAS0241231 type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Full 
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i3-5005U bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Broadwell rev: 4 L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx 
  bogomips: 16000 
  Speed: 1649 MHz min/max: 500/1900 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1356 2: 1391 
  3: 1610 4: 1460 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 5500 vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 
  v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:1616 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa 
  resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 5500 (BDW GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.2.6 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Broadwell-U Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:03.0 chip ID: 8086:160c 
  Device-2: Intel Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 
  chip ID: 8086:9ca0 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-72-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 4000 bus ID: 07:00.0 
  chip ID: 10ec:8136 
  IF: enp7s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rtl8723be v: kernel port: 3000 
  bus ID: 0d:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:b723 
  IF: wlp13s0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.13 TiB used: 141.14 GiB (12.2%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WDS240G2G0A-00JH30 
  size: 223.57 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 0400 scheme: GPT 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Toshiba model: MQ01ABD100 size: 931.51 GiB 
  speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter> rev: 2C scheme: GPT 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 210.66 GiB used: 141.13 GiB (67.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 49.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list 
  1: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 
  1: deb http://mirrors.evowise.com/linuxmint/packages ulyssa main upstream import backport
  2: deb http://mirror.cse.iitk.ac.in/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse
  3: deb http://mirror.cse.iitk.ac.in/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
  4: deb http://mirror.cse.iitk.ac.in/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
  5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
  6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/papirus-papirus-focal.list 
  1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/papirus/papirus/ubuntu focal main
Info:
  Processes: 193 Uptime: 17h 04m Memory: 3.76 GiB used: 1.51 GiB (40.2%) 
  Init: systemd v: 245 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 9 Shell: bash 
  v: 5.0.17 running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.0.38 

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Welcome to the forum, karavind.

Have you tried making any adjustments to the browser settings? In Firefox Preferences: General near the bottom are Performance settings one can change. Perhaps turning off hardware acceleration help your situation.