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Firefox is freezing during flash videos, from anywebsite youtube or whatever, I dont know what to do..

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Happened a few days ago, every time I play a flash video on my Firefox only! chrome and explorer works fine , the image freezes I need to start clicking around and all my icons turn black and it returns to normal and then freezes again, what the hell? this is my favorite browser and I don't want to move to chrome, so please help :(

Happened a few days ago, every time I play a flash video on my Firefox only! chrome and explorer works fine , the image freezes I need to start clicking around and all my icons turn black and it returns to normal and then freezes again, what the hell? this is my favorite browser and I don't want to move to chrome, so please help :(

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You can try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.

Close and restart Firefox after modifying the setting to make the change effective.

You can check if there is an update for your graphics display driver and check for hardware acceleration related issues.

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Note that some websites now use the HTML5 player.

Make sure you are not blocking content.

Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web link} by holding down the <Shift> (Mac=Options) key, and then starting Firefox.

A small dialog should appear. Click Start In Safe Mode (not Refresh). Is the problem still there?


https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/fix-video-audio-problems-firefox-windows

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/fix-common-audio-and-video-issues

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/html5-audio-and-video-firefox

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You can try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.

Close and restart Firefox after modifying the setting to make the change effective.

You can check if there is an update for your graphics display driver and check for hardware acceleration related issues.