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Firefox shockwave crashing when browing youtube and clicking back button while video playing ?

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dsharma3
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Whenever I am playing a youtube video in firefox and press back button the whole browser hangs and I get the wierd Shockwave plugin is busy...error.I have seen many users posted the same problem to Mozilla but not sure why there is no solution posted.Please release an update to fix this problem quickly.

I am using Mozilla Firefox 25.0.1 on Windows 7 machine.

Whenever I am playing a youtube video in firefox and press back button the whole browser hangs and I get the wierd Shockwave plugin is busy...error.I have seen many users posted the same problem to Mozilla but not sure why there is no solution posted.Please release an update to fix this problem quickly. I am using Mozilla Firefox 25.0.1 on Windows 7 machine.

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iamjayakumars
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Hello,

Some problems with Flash video playback can be resolved by disabling hardware acceleration in your Flash Player settings. (See this article for more information on using the Flash plugin in Firefox).

To disable hardware acceleration in Flash Player:

  1. Go to this Adobe Flash Player Help page.
  2. Right-click on the Flash Player logo on that page.
  3. Click on Settings in the context menu. The Adobe Flash Player Settings screen will open.
  4. Click on the icon at the bottom-left of the Adobe Flash Player Settings window to open the Display panel.

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  5. Remove the check mark from Enable hardware acceleration.
  6. Click Close to close the Adobe Flash Player Settings Window.
  7. Restart Firefox.

This Flash Player Help - Display Settings page has more information on Flash Player hardware acceleration, if you're interested.

Does this solve the problem? Let us know.

dsharma3
dsharma3 Ìbéèrè olóhun
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This doesn't solve the problem.This is easily reproducible...just try to quickly browse Youtube and use back button sometime wile video playing.This never happens in chrome so not a graphics card or hardware issue.

iamjayakumars
iamjayakumars
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Try with Beta version, show times the issue with flash not with firefox

k_amol
k_amol
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Update your flashplayer/silverlight plug-ins