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Firefox won't play videos unless I keep moving the mouse! Ugh!
tomos:
Firefox lately has been annoying wrto flash video playback. [...] I felt like in 2014, flash videos were causing slowness/freezes/crashing in firefox all the time, like multiple times a day.
-superboyac (February 05, 2015, 05:21 PM)
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same here.
Firefox and Adobe Flash Player relationship seems to be a recurring problem.
Vurbal:
Doesn't Chrome use its own, built-in version of Flash instead of the one installed in Windows?
MilesAhead:
Doesn't Chrome use its own, built-in version of Flash instead of the one installed in Windows?
-Vurbal (February 05, 2015, 07:53 PM)
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I think the old Opera versions do also. If you install the x64 Opera 12.17 it's a good diagnostic tool. Also it's fast.
http://www.opera.com/download/guide/?os=windows&ver=12.17&local=y
Edit: I'm running 12.14 x64 on Windows 8.0 x64. I don't use it often. But it seems to work fine from what I can see.
BGM:
I put Slimjet on the other computer and my comrade is having no problems playing videos.
He couldn't watch them in IE or Firefox (with only a few addons), but with the Chrome-based Slimjet - no problem.
I'd still like to solve this because I love Firefox.
Thanks for y'all's comments, by the way.
4wd:
Just as a matter of interest, does the same happen with HTML5 content?
https://www.youtube.com/html5
This is IceDragon, (Comodo's version of Firefox):
Click the button to have Youtube try and serve videos in HTML5 rather than Flash.
I'd also uninstall the Flash Player while testing, (just to make sure).
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