Audio crackling in Chrome?

Hey there,
I've noticed some audio popping while watching YouTube videos. It’s intermittent—basically, every ten seconds or so, there's this brief crackle in the sound. Here's an example:

If you listen closely to that video, right between the 9 and 10-second mark, you can hear a small click. It happens randomly across other videos too. Interestingly, the issue doesn't happen when I use Internet Explorer.

Any ideas on how to fix this? Could use some help.

What kind of CPU and RAM usage are you seeing overall when you're watching YouTube on Chrome?

Roughly 20% 🤷

Go ahead and jump by 50% here and there.

I think Chrome might be using its own built-in flash player, whereas Edge usually relies on an external one—typically where you'd install Adobe Flash Player. You could maybe try disabling that specific component in Chrome to force it to use the Adobe version instead.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14266...e-flash-plugin
http://superuser.com/questions/50369...-google-chrome

A Chrome update will probably fix the issue eventually. Honestly, Chrome has become such a resource hog lately—that's really why I was asking about how much memory it's pulling.