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Firefox temporarily locks up when opening Youtube links, and the player is all messed up.

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Erionn
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When opening youtube links from anyway(IM, google, reddit etc), Youtube will hang for a few seconds, and show up black(http://i.imgur.com/oKkqy.png).

This only started happening recently and I hadn't done anything to either flash or firefox.

When opening youtube links from anyway(IM, google, reddit etc), Youtube will hang for a few seconds, and show up black(http://i.imgur.com/oKkqy.png). This only started happening recently and I hadn't done anything to either flash or firefox.

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Erionn
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Found out it was some HTML5 trial that I was automatically forced into on Youtube. Opting out fixed it.