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Youtube videos Overlay on my desktop whenever I minimize Firefox.

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When I watch videos on you tube they play fine. but, when I minimize the window, the video overlays on whatever was behind it. This includes the desktop and all other programs.

The only way I can get it to disappear is to close the browser. This started happening with the last minor update of Firefox.

Any help.

When I watch videos on you tube they play fine. but, when I minimize the window, the video overlays on whatever was behind it. This includes the desktop and all other programs. The only way I can get it to disappear is to close the browser. This started happening with the last minor update of Firefox. Any help.

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You can try to disable hardware acceleration, solved the problem for me

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Same here on ubuntu 10.10. It's more general than youtube, it occurs for example with the flash app on http://aide.voyages-sncf.com/toute-la.../la-pose-d-option.

It's quite annoying, because contrary to Zach012ary, it does not disappear when I close the browser. I have to logout from my session!

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This can be a problem with the Firefox Flash plugin update to version 10.2 r152.

You can try to uninstall Flash and install the previous Flash 10.1 r102 version to see if that works.

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Well I went back to a older version of Flash Player like you described. It Didn't work, There was No Change At all.

I also Used Firefox in Safe Mode With all Add-ons Disabled. Again No Change.

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You can try to disable hardware acceleration, solved the problem for me