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Firefox not playing Youtube videos, please help?

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FFAoibh
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Simple question, still, nothing I've tried has worked. The video is just a black rectangle on the page. It happens with every video on Youtube.

I had version 12 of Firefox and it didn't work, upgraded to 13, still not working. I do not have real player installed, I downgraded Flash to 10 point something, disabled the Shockwave flash and still they won't play! Getting ticked off and sick of having to use IE.

Someone please help me?

Simple question, still, nothing I've tried has worked. The video is just a black rectangle on the page. It happens with every video on Youtube. I had version 12 of Firefox and it didn't work, upgraded to 13, still not working. I do not have real player installed, I downgraded Flash to 10 point something, disabled the Shockwave flash and still they won't play! Getting ticked off and sick of having to use IE. Someone please help me?

FFAoibh மூலமாக திருத்தப்பட்டது

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Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).

Try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.

Try to "disable the hardware acceleration" in the Flash Player.

See also:

Flash "Display settings" window:

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sallu25
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Go to the site below and follow the directions there. I just fixed it for myself. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/flash-113-crashes#w_step-1-uninstall-flash-11-3

FFAoibh
FFAoibh கேள்வியின் உரிமையாளர்
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Thanks sallu25, but I already tried that. It was the exact same article in fact, still it made no difference. :(

cor-el
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தீர்வு தேர்ந்தெடுக்கப்பட்டது

Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).

Try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.

Try to "disable the hardware acceleration" in the Flash Player.

See also:

Flash "Display settings" window:

FFAoibh
FFAoibh கேள்வியின் உரிமையாளர்
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Thanks you cor-el! It worked fine in safe mode and it turns out the first extension Adblock Plus 2.1.1 was faulty. (And no, I had not ad blocked the Youtube videos lol) Thank you so much!