Firefox locking with YouTube

[Jonathan Kaye]

Bart Silverstrim wrote:

> 
> 
> 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", > 
<snip>
> 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.
> 
You can check if FF is using your plugin by typing about:plugins is the FF
address bar. You should see something like this:

Shockwave Flash

    File name: libflashplayer.so
    Shockwave Flash 9.0 r31

If you don't see a shockwave flash entry then your plugin is not installed
correctly.
HTH,
Jonathan
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