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Youtubes are black and won't play-loses all my tabs and app pins sometimes

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Hi, Recently after the last update my youtubes anyway will not play, they are just a black square? I've tried reloading FF 6.01 removing cookies from Youtube...nothing!

Also some times FF loses all my pinned tabs and reg tabs. This is VERY ANNOYING!

Hi, Recently after the last update my youtubes anyway will not play, they are just a black square? I've tried reloading FF 6.01 removing cookies from Youtube...nothing! Also some times FF loses all my pinned tabs and reg tabs. This is VERY ANNOYING!

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Start Firefox in Diagnose Firefox issues using Troubleshoot Mode to check if one of the extensions is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox (Tools) > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).


You can also try to disable the hardware acceleration in the Flash Player.

See:

Flash "Display settings" window:

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Reloaded Flash at the YouTube test page is blank and says movie not loaded...