Firefox trouble -- any idea why my browser suddenly won't play Youtube videos?

Asked by Nullo (22028

) July 7th, 2011

The affliction seems limited to Youtube videos only, and only videos viewed from the main site. Embedded videos work per normal. If it helps, I have Flash Block installed, requiring that I authorize each flash element that wants to run on my page.
When I go to watch the video, I click the ‘play’ button and the screen remains dark and noisome.

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Have you updated to FF5 and Flash 10.3?

osquid (35

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Do you have your Flash Player Hardware Acceleration enabled?
If you do, try disabling it.

Brian1946 (32592

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Mine just did that. Restart your browser. worked for me.

Russell_D_SpacePoet (6454

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Youtube is having issues. Either start by going to the main YouTube site for starting, or, any video you want to play, put an S after the http. So it is https://www.youtube.com/

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One more possible fix is cleaning out your internet cache and other temp files. I use C-Cleaner by Piriform, a free utility that also fixes registry errors.

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