YouTube Flash crashes

[IDemo]

This is getting seriously maddening. If you haven't experienced this, it involves periodic extended pauses of videos at seemingly random spots. I have tried upgrading and downgrading the Flash player, unchecking hardware acceleration in the Firefox options, and running 'Speedbit Video Accelerator' (absolutely worthless). There has got to be either some solution to this problem or an alternative to Flash. Adobe does not appear to be overly concerned with eliminating the issue.

Anyone else have any suggestions?

[steve2470]

1. see if this helps you

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/985267

[IDemo]

2. Tried disabling 'protected mode'

Even though that sounds like an inadvisable step. Still locking up. Also tried 3 different HTML5 extensions, none of which seem to work even after restarting Firefox, and none have an 'options' button in the Add-On page. Even selecting HTML5 from YouTube's site doesn't appear to work. Very odd, to say the least..

[2naSalit]

3. Been having that problem for months

and I have considered my options... which are basically what you have tried. Since you have already done all that, I'll pass.

However, I suspect it is systemic and not going to change any time soon, and I think it originates with Google. I refuse to "sign in" on any page of that nature, the only "social media" I have any account with is my email, this blog and one other where I rarely make comment anymore. I have been experiencing this problem since Google went to universal accounts where you sign in to everything, including utoob, when you sign in to you email or any of the accounts, you then have everything open. Since I won't "go there" I suspect that system is making sure that I will eventually become so frustrated that I will "sign up".

Not sure what to tell you except that I suspect this is the work around to privatized anti-net neutrality where a massive conglomerate decides to make it such that you have to pay more for what was once free whether it's the law or not - yet... or it's the "test" to see if taking net neutrality away will work out as hoped.

[hunter]

4. I don't install Adobe Flash and I'm much happier for it.

Youtube generally defaults to HTML 5 gracefully and all the most irritating advertising of the internet goes away.

Some sites seem to punish you for that. Huffington Post for example is upset they can't fill your screen with Flash advertisements and will punish you with timeouts.

BBC news doesn't get upset, their site is still quite usable, but they won't let you see their videos without flash because outside the U.K. they use advertising to pay for the video bandwidth and they don't want to accommodate HTML 5 technology in-house or associate too closely with the likes of youtube or vimeo, which makes no sense to me because they allow corporations like HSBC sponsor their news videos. Like choosing a devil to sleep with.

But I don't think most people would be happy without Flash. My own thinking is that I wouldn't like any site that demands I use flash, and they probably wouldn't like me.

Other than that, I've not got much. I don't use Firefox anymore; sadly I'm mostly using WebKit (essentially Chrome) based browsers. Webkit, backed by Google and Apple, has won th browser wars.

It might be helpful to you if you uninstalled Flash entirely (which is not a straightforward thing to do in Windows) and then see if you can live without it. Beyond that, other than a switch to a WebKit based browser and maybe a subsequent reinstall of Flash, if you really must, then I got nothing.

I'm fringe and proud of it.

[IDemo]

5. I did do an uninstall of Flash

YouTube displayed a 'missing plugin' message with a link to the Adobe download page.