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youtube not working

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i get a black youtube screen even that the page working. and nothing happend

i get a black youtube screen even that the page working. and nothing happend

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YouTube has recently changed their player from Flash to HTML5 player. This is now set as default.

  1. If this is causing your problems, you can set the player back to Flash by using the Firefox add-on YouTube Flash Video Player.
  2. If you are using Flash and the problem occurs, try turning of hardware acceleration as it may cause problems with playing back videos(right-click on any flash video > Settings > Display > Uncheck Enable Hardware Acceleration).
  3. Try booting in Safe Mode ans select Disable add-ons from the dialog window. If the problem doesn't occur anymore, try disabling the Firefox add-ons one by one (in normal mode) and check which one is causing trouble.
  4. If the problems still occur, check out the following pages:

I hope one of these troubleshooting steps helps.

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