Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. This thread was archived. Please ask a new question if you need help. At random times, sometimes minutes, sometimes hours apart from eachother, firefox seem to freeze my pc. I've tried googling the issue, but I couldn't find anything helpful anywhere. Try disabling graphics hardware acceleration in Firefox. Since this feature was added to Firefox it has gradually improved but there are still a few glitches.
You will need to restart Firefox for this to take effect so save all work first e. If the problem is resolved, you should check for updates for your graphics driver by following the steps mentioned in these Knowledge base articles:. Mac: Open the "Applications" folder. Linux: Check your user manual.
If you installed Firefox with the distro-based package manager, you should use the same way to uninstall it. If you downloaded and installed the binary package from the Firefox download page, simply remove the folder Firefox in your home directory.
Do not remove the Mozilla Thunderbird folder if there is one. After rebooting the computer, run a registry scanner if you have one. Then run the installer. Thank you for this response. This happens every single time. It used to work fine. I've even disable accelerate video. Nothing seems to work. Then the very first time I pull up youtube it will work great but when I close down the browser then reopen it and go to youtube, I have the same exact problem as before.
Firefox will pull up youtube with no problem when I uninstall the flashplayer of course can't see videos then but once it's installed youtube freezes. Also Internet Explorer pulls up youtube videos great, just like Firefox used to do. Don't know what's wrong or what's happened but youtube immediately freezes or hangs Firefox when flashplayer is installed in firefox. Hey guys I think we've got a fix for this one. As most often the case the glitch is not with FF but with some plugin or incompatible piece of SW.
Troubleshoot: Uninstall FF, uninstall flashplayer, uninstall all brower toolbars add ons etc. DO NOT add, enable, attach anything else at all. Just Bare FF and Only most recent flash player. The big spinning platter disk has not failed in the interim and no SMART analysis gave me any indication it was going bad so maybe it was just this Protected Mode issue; that would be interesting.
Alan Wade There are many posts that ask for help without being clear or giving details of their problems, you are one of them! There are plenty of resources to help you learn programming, many of which don't cost anything. Here are the best. It is not the flash version, I have the latest version and some videos freeze every few seconds. A bit of a shock since I always considered Firefox to be superior than IE. Its simple brother, You need to update your flash player.
I would recommend using Google Chrome. This happens to me too. So this doesn't happen everytime but when watching many videos it will eventually crash. Happens in safe mode with only flash enabled.
Tried reinstalling Firefox and flash players. Do this Not ony Youtube but Flash is doing that, several time a session on flash enabled sites. Change the browser. Have u installed the appropriate flash player? Uninstall using your uninstaller. I had similar problem with flash videos. Have you tried using youtube on other web browsers? What are the hardware specs of your computer?
Did youtube always not work, or is this a recent issue. Which version of Firefox did you first notice this problem in?
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