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Firefox stopped working with youtube. Why?

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I am running an HP Laptop. HP Pavillion dv7-6135dx to be exact. It is running Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit. I have Firefox 8.0 installed. I have always used Firefox, and ONLY want to use Firefox, but I can't play youtube videos on the new version 8.0. Not sure what happened with this update. I have tried uninstalling and re-installing. I have tried reloading flash and java, but nothing helps thus far. Could you please shine some light on this for me? Thank you. kd7sjt.

I am running an HP Laptop. HP Pavillion dv7-6135dx to be exact. It is running Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit. I have Firefox 8.0 installed. I have always used Firefox, and ONLY want to use Firefox, but I can't play youtube videos on the new version 8.0. Not sure what happened with this update. I have tried uninstalling and re-installing. I have tried reloading flash and java, but nothing helps thus far. Could you please shine some light on this for me? Thank you. kd7sjt.

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Did this start happening when you updated to the latest Flash Player? Because I'm having the same problem, but it was because I updated the Flash Player to the latest version. Can't get it to work...

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I believe so. It has to be a bug because google chrome isn't having this problem.

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Clear the cache and the cookies from sites that cause problems.

"Clear the Cache":

  • Tools > Options > Advanced > Network > Offline Storage (Cache): "Clear Now"

"Remove Cookies" from sites causing problems:

  • Tools > Options > Privacy > Cookies: "Show Cookies"

Start Firefox in Diagnose Firefox issues using Troubleshoot 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).