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Firefox won't let me play any videos (youtube, hulu, or otherwise)

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ajjp
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Yesterday Firefox stopped loading videos. At first I thought I had been blocked by google because I used download helper to rip audio from a bunch of videos (lectures, not illegal downloads). But then I noticed Hulu wouldn't load and even facebook's video player wasn't working. I tried viewing videos on chrome and it worked fine. I cleared the cache on firefox, ensured I had the latest version of flash and firefox, but that didn't help. Eventually I uninstalled firefox and reinstalled it and that seemed to help, but then this morning I started getting the same error again.

Any ideas?

Yesterday Firefox stopped loading videos. At first I thought I had been blocked by google because I used download helper to rip audio from a bunch of videos (lectures, not illegal downloads). But then I noticed Hulu wouldn't load and even facebook's video player wasn't working. I tried viewing videos on chrome and it worked fine. I cleared the cache on firefox, ensured I had the latest version of flash and firefox, but that didn't help. Eventually I uninstalled firefox and reinstalled it and that seemed to help, but then this morning I started getting the same error again. Any ideas?

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philipp
philipp
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hello ajjp, do the solutions given at Flash 11.3 doesn't load video in Firefox work for you?

cor-el
cor-el
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IE and Google Chrome come with their own versions of the flash plugin, but Firefox uses a different version.

You can also try steps these for issues with the current Flash plugin:

  • disable a possible RealPlayer Browser Record Plugin extension for Firefox and update the RealPlayer if installed
  • disable protected mode in Flash 11.3 and later
  • disable hardware acceleration in the Flash plugin

See also: