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sbfreak

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Registered: 2010-06-06

Posts: 149

Flashplugin freezes Firefox when making youtube video bigger.

I'm having this weird problem where if I try to make a youtube video bigger it completely freezes my firefox session.
http://i.imgur.com/MPKII.png

I'm using firefox-nightly and libvdpau-git-flashpatch(necessary so I can enjoy videos without a blue tint). nvidia driver and flashplugin are from the repos.

My /etc/adobe/mms.conf contains the following:

EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1
OverrideGPUValidation = 1

joseperezc

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Registered: 2011-03-02

Posts: 80

Re: Flashplugin freezes Firefox when making youtube video bigger.

Flashplugin always needs many cpu power and gpu too. it's a very nasty app.
If i should recomend something is: uninstall it
Because almost every video in youtube are now in a pretty html5 compatible video and can be watched without the very very nasty flashplugin.
Unless you play flash games because you have nothing to do.

So the step by step is:

1._ pacman -Rcns flashplugin
2._ Enjoy
3._ Still enjoy without hangs or being evil...

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sbfreak

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Registered: 2010-06-06

Posts: 149

Re: Flashplugin freezes Firefox when making youtube video bigger.

4_ Be annoyed when a youtube video doesn't play and you really want to see it.

Believe me.I've tried living without flash but it just didn't work out.

Last edited by sbfreak (2012-08-13 20:12:39)

joseperezc

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Registered: 2011-03-02

Posts: 80

Re: Flashplugin freezes Firefox when making youtube video bigger.

The greatest feature (of many in firefox) is the use of extensions like: http://www.bestvideodownloader.com/
you can install it for download any video in various formats and play it directly with your favorite video app.

pictures for an example:
http://s16.postimage.org/buqb8tcud/step_1.png
http://s16.postimage.org/5xmfrzvph/step_2.png

Last edited by joseperezc (2012-08-14 18:56:09)

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sbfreak

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Registered: 2010-06-06

Posts: 149

Re: Flashplugin freezes Firefox when making youtube video bigger.

In the past I've had grim experiences with video downloaders.I've been ignoring this type of addons perhaps for too long.Thank you for your suggestion.