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[Shadowlord]

Reverse the polarity of the tutorial flow?

[Lord Shonus]

Are you talking about the fade in/fade out effect youtube uses?

No, I am talking about the "play", "quality", "youtube" and "fullscreen" (along with the others I never touch) being literally invisible if viewed on any site other than youtube itself. They work, if you already know where the control is, but you cannot see them.

[Aklyon]

That sounds only slightly more functional than my embeds are. I have to watch any embed i care about seeing on youtube itself, otherwise the video never loads.

[TheBiggerFish]

Sounds like a browser bug.

[Reverie]

Are you talking about the fade in/fade out effect youtube uses?

No, I am talking about the "play", "quality", "youtube" and "fullscreen" (along with the others I never touch) being literally invisible if viewed on any site other than youtube itself. They work, if you already know where the control is, but you cannot see them.

Can you not see the controls if the youtube plugin has cursor focus? Because if it's invisible even then, I'll second that sounding like a bug.

[Lord Shonus]

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "cursor focus" here. It happens even while fullscreened ans actively clicking on the controls.

[TheBiggerFish]

Have you clicked it, which is probably yes then.

What browser are you using?

[Lord Shonus]

Up to date Firefox.

[SealyStar]

So I've been having some serious computer issues for the last day or so. Yesterday it started temporarily freezing at semi-regular intervals and basic things like restarting didn't fix it. I slogged through it until I noticed that my CPU and RAM usage were way higher than they should be, and figured I must have some kind of virus. However, I ran MWB (most recent update, by the way) multiple times and it's picked up nothing. I'm still thinking "malware" is the most parsimonious explanation but that result is a bit strange. I also haven't experienced any negative effects other than the freezing and CPU/RAM usage.

Next I tried booting in safe mode; that solved the CPU nd memory issues, but the freezing is still happening (albeit less frequently). So now I'm looking for advice on two fronts:

1) Is it malware or just an accidental hardware/software problem?
2) In either  case, what's the best way to fix it?

(Computer is a mid-range Dell laptop with the most recent version of Windows 7, if that helps)

EDIT: Updates
-Realizing that MWB isn't the end-all-be-all of malware detectors, I also ran adwcleaner and it also didn't detect anything. Still not a definitive no, but the fact that neither program detected anything suggests that if there is malware tucked away somewhere it's some combination of new, uncommon, or well-hidden.
-Still in safe mode right now; computer appears to work fine aside from some stuff (MS Office, audio drivers) not working for presumably safe mode-related reasons. I spoke too soon about it still freezing; that only happened once, for apparently unrelated reasons.

[Rose]

Could be hard drive nearing the end of its life.

[SealyStar]

Could be hard drive nearing the end of its life.

It's remotely possible, but while I'm no computer expert I fail to see how that would lead to RAM hogging, CPU grinding, and random freezing, all of which are seemingly fixed with safe mode. And my computer is a year-and-a-half old and in seemingly good condition.

[Thief^]

It's possible your PC was already running high on the RAM and CPU use and you didn't notice because it wasn't freezing.

A hdd dying tends to cause temporary stalls, accompanied with clicking from the hdd while it tries to read the same sector over and over.

Freezing does tend to be a hardware fault of some kind. Is it still under warrantee?

[TheBiggerFish]

MWB != Antivirus, run a virus scan too.

[SealyStar]

Antivirus also turned up negative, meanwhile I'm having RAM issues again (CPU's fine). While I'm not discounting the possibility of malware completely, the problem might be a memory leak. I have a few lines of evidence - it seems to get worse the longer the computer runs, the freezing only kicks in when I'm doing RAM-heavy things like multiple Chrome tabs or MS Office (seriously Microsoft, how do you fuck up a word processor), and Chrome is having its own problems with unresponsive pages/cache loading.

Given this, how should I trace the source of the possible leak?

[TheBiggerFish]

Task manager?