Firefox locking with YouTube

[Michael R. Head]

On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 09:44 -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> Has anyone been seeing this behavior recently, or know how to try 
> troubleshooting it?

You want to ensure you've got flash9. point your browser at the location
"about:plugins" you should find flash in there somewhere. If it's
version 7, then that's your problem. 

This may have been installed in one  of two ways. 
     1. the plugin installed itself (or you installed it as a user) at
        some point in the past. In this case, it's in your firefox
        folder.
              * To remove it, press Alt-f2 and type ~/.mozilla/firefox
                and click run
              * Browse until you find the plugins folder and remove
                anything in there related to flash
     2. the plugin was installed with synpatic (or in some other way
        known to ubuntu). In this case, you may want to use the
        backports repository to get the upgrade (this will work for both
        dapper and edgy):
        https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports

> 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
> 
-- 
Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
http://www.suppressingfire.org/~burner/
http://suppressingfire.livejournal.com
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