Firefox locking with YouTube

[Jonathan Kaye]

Bart Silverstrim wrote:

> Has anyone been seeing this behavior recently, or know how to try
> troubleshooting it?
> 
> When I go to Youtube.com and click a video to play, Firefox starts
> rendering the webpage, and when it starts retrieving the video link to
> play it FF dims and "locks up", and I have to force quit Firefox.  I can
> still minimize it and move the window around and use other applications
> but FF is dead until I relaunch it (and don't restore the session to
> play the video, unless I quickly close the offending tab before it has a
> chance to try bringing up the video link).
> 
> Could a recent update have caused this, and is anyone else seeing this
> issue?
> 
> -Bart
Hi Bart,
I just tried Youtube and no problems either loading the page or playing the
videos. I'm using FF 2.0.0.4. Have you checked your Flashplayer plugin.
Does it work ok on other sites?
Cheers,
Jonathan
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