Firefox locking with YouTube

Bart Silverstrim bsilver at chrononomicon.com
Tue Jul 3 14:31:26 UTC 2007



Jonathan Kaye wrote:
> 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?

I'm also using 2.0.0.4.  I didn't check the Flash plugin, but did try 
installing the flashplugin-nonfree after it started happening but either 
FF isn't using it or it isn't solving the issue.

What website should I try using to test it, if you know another one that 
is working for you that I could also try?




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