Firefox and Adobe Flash not working out

Hi all!

So I've been having this problem recently. When I use Firefox to watch YouTube videos, and I pause the video, the Flash plugin crashes, which is annoying because if it's a longer video and I've paused it at a certain time, then I have to reload the page and let the whole video load again.

This doesn't happen instantly when I pause the video, sometimes it will take 5-10 minutes before it crashes, sometimes I'll pause the video, close my laptop lid and 1 minute later come back, and see the crashed plugin.

I've tried Google searches, but they yield nothing that has worked thus far. I know it's a Firefox problem because it doesn't happen on Opera or IE.

I use Firefox daily and am used to it; I really don't want to switch browsers. I tried getting used to Opera and it still didn't feel right, I don't trust Google enough to use chrome and IE is...well, ****.

Anyone else have this problem or a possible fix? If it helps I am using Firefox 11.0.

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Comments

JDMurray

It sounds like a memory leak problem. Make sure your Flash in FireFox is updated. It is a separate update from Flash in IE and Chrome.

Novalith478

JDMurray wrote: »

It sounds like a memory leak problem. Make sure your Flash in FireFox is updated. It is a separate update from Flash in IE and Chrome.

I finally was able to update Flash (Adobe's update software kept giving me errors), so let's hope it works now.

msteinhilber

I have the same issue, latest Firefox and Flash - but I only experience the issue only once and it only happens after I've logged into my machine using Remote Desktop. Kill the plugin-container.exe process and reload the page and all is well again. Haven't found a fix for it yet, curious if you use Remote Desktop or not because I haven't had the issue on my workstations or reports of it on hundreds of other workstations with Firefox and Flash throughout my companies network except for machines I access with Remote Desktop.

JDMurray

Is this problem occurring only very recently? The latest Patch Tuesday had updates for RDP and remote access.