Sound and video freezing up Firefox

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--- On Fri, 7/31/09, Ray Parrish <crp at cmc.net> wrote:

From: Ray Parrish <crp at cmc.net>
Subject: Re: Sound and video freezing up Firefox
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Date: Friday, July 31, 2009, 8:51 PM

Ray Parrish wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Since this morning anytime I attempt to load sound like Pandora Radio or 
> videos from hulu.com on Hardy Heron and the latest version of Firefox my 
> browser freezes up. Is anyone else having this problem, or can someone 
> suggest a fix for it?
>
> Later, Ray Parrish
>   
>Correction, Pandora and Hulu are freezing up Firefox, but archive.org 
plays video just fine, so this seems to be a flash related problem, as 
flash is used on the other two sites. I have already tried the Hulu.com 
suggested method of releasing and reallocating storage area for flash by 
>using it's settings context menu entry.

Ray, I had no problem playing  hula videos but couldn't find Pandora.  I am running Jaunty Jack-64bit though but had problems running all embedded videos and audios with Hardy and Intrepid until I ran update-alternatives and changed flash from swf to flashplugin(player)-nonfree.  If your about:plugins shows only a Shockwave Flash 9.0 r999 and not a Shockwave Flash 10.0 r22 Then it might be worth a try with update-alternatives.  I always install flashplugin-nonfree on my versions of Ubuntu and it seems that Ubuntu insists you choose which plugin to use via update-alternatives.  May not be your problem but has always worked for me.
HTH,
Leonard Chatagnier
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