Nouri Alnahawi asks:
Hi guys,
Yesterday I was watching stuff online as usual when suddenly all videos stopped playing, even YouTube videos would only buffer 10-20 seconds and then stop. I normally use Firefox, so I switched to Chrome, and this problem didn’t happen so I can rule out connection or bandwidth problems.
I have noticed that there are some weird processes appearing in the task manager in addition to a high CPU usage when I start Firefox. It’s nearly 100% all the time! I tried uninstalling and reinstalling Firefox, disabling some add-ons, but nothing worked.
Could it be some kind of a bug or malicious program that got stuck on Firefox ? I really need help because I love Firefox and this just sucks.
Thanks!
13 Answers -
ferdinan Sitohang
August 15, 2012As i know that firefox has 14.0.1 for its newest version, i see that your is version 15(may be it is a beta version). Indeed firefox has a problem when it is accessing a youtube, because it consumes more of your resources rather than chrome. But try to use a stable one i think.
Reý Aetar
August 15, 2012just disable all google services
stop any process associated to google like google updater and others (they comes with any google product like chrome picassa and so on then try playing sometimes the problem happens in my pc also you wont be able to download also youtube videos and data from some other sites and firefox stops from loading pages sometimes..
Its not a firefox problem
Aman Verma
August 15, 2012may be flash player problem
GrrGrrr
August 15, 2012what were the processes u saw consuming 100% CPU?
Well for starters firefox.exe also plug-in-container.exe and something called Idle Process. However I see a lot of new weird suspicious stuff.
August 15, 2012Min Shum
August 15, 2012Are you using FF 15 for developers. I bet the reason your Firefox does not play videos is because the current version of the Flash player is not compatible with the Beta version of FF.
gmc
August 15, 2012Flash is the programme that handles videos in your browser. And there was a Flash update yesterday. If you have your FF add-ons set to “auto-update”, Flash will have updated automatically. I suspect this new version of Flash may be the culprit for the stuttering you’re experiencing when viewing videos, as it caused issues for me too. Steps:
1. Remove Flash using the Adobe Flash removal tool.
2. Reboot.
3. Load an earlier version of Flash [I'm using early April 2012 release.]
The removal tool AND the 5th April release of flash re both included in the following Adobe download:
Version: 11.2 – Released 5/04/2012.
http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/archived-flash-player-versions.html
Thanks man
The new flash version was the problem, and the newest firefox version is also unstable.
August 16, 2012gmc
August 15, 2012p.s. BEFORE you do the above, make sure you set auto-update OFF in all your browsers! Otherwise the update will just happen again after all your hard work.
Kylee Kanavas
August 15, 2012Try reinstalling your flash, or your computer. Sometimes the flash will crash in chrome.
Reinstall computer! What a stupid idea. It would take me weeks to redo all settings as I like it for my hundreds of programs. Reinstalling the operating system is for noobs.
August 30, 2012I have a Windows 2000 system that has run for 10 years without reinstalling.
You have to learn some basics in computer administration.
josemon maliakal
August 20, 2012you better install a flash player plugin for your firefox
Guy
August 20, 2012Try this :
http://www.i-services.com/membres/forum/messages.php?uid=153839&sid=102187&idsujet=27399&pgi=0#is_top
Tell me if this works!
Guy
April Eum
August 21, 2012try to upgrade to the latest flash player for your Firefox browser
Amit Sinha
September 1, 2012update your adobe flash version and shock wave player and use current version of firefox.
If problem persists check for viruses and malware.
There might be other reason for buffering the videos is that other applications using your network resources same time or your are try to watching the videos in peak time
Hiren Patel
September 13, 2012Update Firefox & Adobe Flash Player To resolve the issue.