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For the last few weeks i am unable to watch youtube videos , I have updated firefox to 3.6 , i have uninstalled and reinstalled adobe flash to the newest version, i have tried in safe mode to get it to work i have disabled all extensions ...nothing works !!!!! i have even uninstalled firefox and reinstalled still no luck ..whats odd is that i can watch movies fine with my windows media player and quicktime offline ..and i can watch videos on yahoo that use flash and i can play flash games but all youtube videos just wont play and it says the adobe plug in has crashed .. ..i love firefox !!!!! please help !

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For the last few weeks i am unable to watch youtube videos , I have updated firefox to 3.6 , i have uninstalled and reinstalled adobe flash to the newest version, i have tried in safe mode to get it to work i have disabled all extensions ...nothing works !!!!! i have even uninstalled firefox and reinstalled still no luck ..whats odd is that i can watch movies fine with my windows media player and quicktime offline ..and i can watch videos on yahoo that use flash and i can play flash games but all youtube videos just wont play and it says the adobe plug in has crashed .. ..i love firefox !!!!! please help ! == URL of affected sites == http://

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Ok I fixed it !!!!! :) I disabled hardware acceleration in the adobe flash player settings ...now it works ...thanks to me

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Isisombululo esiKhethiweyo

Ok I fixed it !!!!! :) I disabled hardware acceleration in the adobe flash player settings ...now it works ...thanks to me

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So how does one disable Hardware accel in win7 x64 ?

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On any webpage with Flash content, right-click on the Flash player, click "Settings", select the Display tab and uncheck “Enable hardware acceleration"

Ref: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/help01.html

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Flash#Performance_or_display_issues_with_certain_Flash_videos

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I don't have a problem with youtube but I do have the problem with http://new.music.yahoo.com

I don't think I had the problem before I updated to FF 3.6.10 and Flash 10.1.85.3

No sound or video but the site keeps pulling bandwidth in a never ending cycle!

Note. I've disable Hardware acceleration for Flash.

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I cant watch youtube videos at youtube only, if youtube video is embedded on another web page (some websites, not all) I can watch vid just fine, disabled hardware acceleration and still no good,, I can watch videos just fine on youtube with Chrome, but I hate Chrome. Help, I really dont wanna hafta use Chrome!

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Okay, after reading about probs with embedded youtube vids and deleting cookies I deleted cookies and is working fine now, thank god I dont have to use Chrome. thanx!

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I tried turning off Hardware Acceleration, but i couldnt do it in the mozilla browser for obvious reasons (it requires flash). So I tried it in Internet Explorer and tried to watch a Youtube video, nothing... I tried deleting all my cookies, nothing... What do i do?! D=

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Just started having this problem this morning. Running FF 5.0 Tried changing flash settings to "Dont use hardware acceleration". No help.

Went to FF help page, verified all add on's/plugins were at latest level. Still no go.

If I brought up a youtube video, the frame is there but nothing ever loads or starts. No start/pause buttone displat. Right clicking inside the video frame I get a small popup that shows the ver of flash that I have and also says video not loaded.

Oddly, when I go to youtube.com, there is a flash movie advertisements on the home page that starts playing fine (I right clicked on this to change the hardware acceleration settings).

Ended up clearing cookines/cache and that seems to have taken care of it.

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had the same problem today. The only solution that worked was clearing all cookies and cache. works fine now :)