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07-Nov-2008, 04:28 PM #1
Unhappy Firefox
I recently downloaded Firefox to make surfing the internet faster for me. Ever since I downloaded it, I've having problems with certain sites like YouTube to load or even downloading certain videos would always crash the browser. Why is this happening?

I have XP.
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07-Nov-2008, 04:37 PM #2
this sounds like a problem with Firefox and not your operating system. However I'm not too sure. I'm been using Firefox and recently experience crashes on random sites. are you using the newest version like myself?
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07-Nov-2008, 05:43 PM #3
Did you install the add-on for Flash?
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07-Nov-2008, 07:18 PM #4
Here is the link for the latest,as of Nov.7 2008,Adobe flash player.
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
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07-Nov-2008, 07:41 PM #5
Make sure you add on adobe flash player as suggested and also java runtime, even if they are already installed, they need to be installed into Firefox also.
"Tools", "Add-ons", "Get Extensions", "Plugins" and run them all.
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08-Nov-2008, 02:12 AM #6
Also check that you have the java script running because it has to work to bring up the box at youtube that the flash or other player loads in.
Then your need the other player add-on like flash etc to play.
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08-Nov-2008, 06:26 AM #7
i've been using firefox for a long time and have never had problems, crashes,etc with any sites.
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08-Nov-2008, 07:03 AM #8
Same here. One time back years ago getting a upgrade update on FF 1.5 where it wants to close and open or reboot I got a error and something got all screwed up and I could not open FF. But rebooted the computer and did the check for updates again or something and it then finished what it did when it screwed up and all was OK. But that was the worse thing but it was all fixed in no time.
Only other bad thing was and it effected Netscape also was not really Netscape or FF but Flash would lock up Netscape. FF would act up after flash loaded. But after a newer version of flash or after what ever version of flash that stopped but that was the flash and not netscape or FF.
Any other trouble I have had has been small and it was just a add-on that was buggy and uninstall that add-on and the trouble is gone.
Use Netscape from version 2 so have seen lots of funny things happen and even with Firefox feeling like your still using Netscape it works so much better and the add-ons make it even more better.
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10-Nov-2008, 01:19 PM #9
I have Firefox 3 on my computer now.
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10-Nov-2008, 05:17 PM #10
Try running in safe mode to see what happens.
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