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Firefox keeps locking up.

SilpheedSilpheed Registered User regular
edited January 2012 in Moe's Stupid Technology Tavern
Hi everyone.

Recently I've had some problems with Firefox that I've never had before. I'm an avid LP reader and a lot of these are video LP's which is where the problem appears. Any time that I try to run a Youtube link (or an embedded video link on these forums) Firefox locks up completly and I have to kill the Firefox process in the Task Manager. Has anyone else run into this problem? I've had a look at the Firefox forums but they've been less than helpful.

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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu PIGEON Registered User regular
    edited January 2012
    http://www.opera.com/

    Alternatively disable all your plugins and see if it keeps happening.

    TychoCelchuuu on
  • The AnonymousThe Anonymous Uh, uh, uhhhhhh... Uh, uh.Registered User regular
    What versions of Firefox and Flash plugin are you using? Have you tried killing plugin-container.exe instead of Firefox?

  • EliminationElimination Registered User regular
    I have this problem on 3 seperate computers all not even using plugins other than basic flash ones and such. I ended up surmising that its an issue with the flash plugin in general with the most recent firefox. I uninstalled and switched over to Google Chrome and haven't had any issues since.

    PSN: PA_Elimination 3DS: 4399-2012-1711 Steam: http://steamcommunity.com/id/TheElimination/
  • SilpheedSilpheed Registered User regular
    The Anonymous wrote:
    What versions of Firefox and Flash plugin are you using? Have you tried killing plugin-container.exe instead of Firefox?
    I've tried to kill the plugin-container.exe but that didn't work, unfortunatly.I'm currently using Firefox 9.0.1and my current flash plugin seems to be Shockwave Flash 11.1 r102.

  • The AnonymousThe Anonymous Uh, uh, uhhhhhh... Uh, uh.Registered User regular
    Try reinstalling the Flash plugin. If that doesn't help, you'll probably need to either switch to another browser (or try the Firefox 10 Beta), or disable Flash and enable the YouTube HTML5 player instead.

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