Firefox freezes with Flash player or HTML 5 when watching videos on Youtube
Hello everyone, This is driving me crazy! I've been trying to fix this a couple of times but no luck.
I'm trying to watch youtube videos on firefox and so whenever i try to enable flash player it just freezes my firefox...
I've uninstalled flash, installed latest/oldest, uninstalled firefox, restarted my comp, deleted the directory, disabled hardware acceleration, cleared cache and no luck...
When I use html 5 it doesn't freeze though I don't want to use it because it doesn't have 240p quality option.
Sometimes when flash player is enabled it doesn't freeze instantly only when i enable html5, play a video, close it then enable flash player addon then load the video which doesn't freeze until 3 mintues then freezes completely.
Ideas? Thank you.
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Recent crashes of certain multimedia contents (this includes Youtube videos, certain flash games and other applications) in conjunction with Firefox are most probably caused by a recent Flash 11.3 update and/or a malfunctioning Real Player browser plugin.
In order to remedy the problem, please perform the steps mentioned in these Knowledge Base articles:
Flash Plugin - Keep it up to date and troubleshoot problems
Adobe Flash plugin has crashed - Prevent it from happening again
Flash 11.3 doesn't load video in Firefox
Other, more technical information about these issues can be found under these Links:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1018071?tstart=0
http://blogs.adobe.com/asset/2012/06/inside-flash-player-protected-mode-for-firefox.html
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Try to boot the computer in Windows Safe mode with network support (press F8 on the boot screen) as a test to see if that helps.
yalam96 , I've tried these and it doesn't work... And i'm telling you it doesn't happen with only the latest flash.. I also tried downgrading and this happen so don't give me tutorials about flash 11.5....
cor-el, I don't get how that's supposed to help me? I don't want to use my pc on Safe mode with networking and besides my connection doesn't work on that mode.
I really need helpful answers and i'm very tired of trying.
Thanks.
I had the same problems. My solution was to ditch FF 17 and downgrade to FF 16. I don't have any issues with 16, but I have little faith this will be fixed soon since I tried FF 18 beta, and it crashes all the time too. I may start using Chrome if FF doesn't become stable again.
I downgraded all the way to Firefox 2 and it still freezes... I even tried the latest Firefox 18 beta and same thing ; (
It seems that what could have caused it is that I always manually hit the power off switch instead of [ start > -- > Shutdown ] which might have corrupted files or probably didn't install flash correctly.
After I uninstalled - [ start - shutdown ] installed Firefox/Flash and again [ start - shutdown ] it seems that it loads longer then freezes.
I guess switching it off from the power button manually was a habit which no longer will persist.
Have any of you tried activating the task manager and seeing if something is using most of your computer resources. Firefox's plugin-container.exe is pulling 99% of the CPU resources when this happens to me. Mozilla has not acknowledged this as a problem yet though it appears to have been going on for some time. Chrome plays the suspect videos fine.
You can do a check for problems with current Flash plugin versions and try these:
- disable protected mode in the Flash plugin (Flash 11.3+ on Windows Vista and later)
- disable hardware acceleration in the Flash plugin
- disable a possible RealPlayer Browser Record Plugin extension for Firefox and update the RealPlayer if installed
cor-el, I believe that I have tried all of that. and the RealPlayer level is 16.01+. Can you or someone at firefox reproduce the problem with the link included? Thanks
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