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Using Flash to view any video in Firefox causes whole system to hang.

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jmixmaster
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For the last month or so, whenever I watch YouTube or anything flash related, my WHOLE system will freeze. Not for just a second, but for 2+ minutes sometimes. The audio repeats and I can't do anything except wait it out. It's becoming really annoying because it happens more often than not. This bug has also survived a Windows clean install at least 3 versions of Firefox, and 10.3+ Flash versions.

All hardware acceleration is disabled both in Firefox, and Flash. This is just getting to be really ridiculous.

For the last month or so, whenever I watch YouTube or anything flash related, my WHOLE system will freeze. Not for just a second, but for 2+ minutes sometimes. The audio repeats and I can't do anything except wait it out. It's becoming really annoying because it happens more often than not. This bug has also survived a Windows clean install at least 3 versions of Firefox, and 10.3+ Flash versions. All hardware acceleration is disabled both in Firefox, and Flash. This is just getting to be really ridiculous.

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user633449
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Have you updated your graphics driver? Upgrade your graphics drivers to use hardware acceleration and WebGL

cor-el
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You can check for problems caused by recent Flash updates and try these:

  • 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