Recently somebody I know was experiencing a problem in his Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome browsers. When trying to view a video in YouTube, the video wouldn’t play properly. It would either have no sound or completely stop after playing for a few seconds. It could only really be 2 possibilities, and that is an unstable internet connection or flash player has a problem since YouTube uses flash player to stream its videos. It was confirmed that the problem only appeared in Chrome and Firefox but worked perfectly in Internet Explorer browser.
Immediately, this tells us that the installed flash player is either corrupted or an outdated version of flash is being used which doesn’t support YouTube or is not properly compatible with the specific versions of Chrome or Firefox. The solution to fix this problem is to completely uninstall the currently installed flash player, download the latest version and then install it.
For Chrome users
These days where Chrome is concerned, things are getting a little tricky because the Adobe Flash player used in Chrome is now integrated within Chrome itself. This means that uninstalling Flash from Control Panel or using the Flash Player Uninstaller tool will have no effect on Chrome’s Flash Player. You will either need to remove and reinstall Chrome completely or wait until there is an update in which case the Flash plugin component will get updated at the same time.
However, there is a workaround which can force Chrome to use the standard Flash Player by disabling the integrated plugin meaning you can update, remove, or reinstall as normal.
1. Type chrome://plugins into the Chrome address bar.
2. Click on Details at the far right to expand the list and look for a section entitled Flash in which you might have 1, 2 or possibly 3 dll files listed.
3. Look at the Location of each of these files and click the disable link for gcswf32.dll and pepflashplayer.dll too if you have it. Both files should have Google\Chrome\Application\ in the path and come from the Users folder.
If you also have a DLL located in C:\Windows this is the standard Flash Player and you can leave it enabled and try to see if Flash works now Chromes own player is turned off. If it still doesn’t work then follow the steps to reinstall a new version of the Flash Player. If you don’t have a Flash DLL with a location in C:\Windows, simply follow the procedure to install the Flash Player.
Uninstall and Reinstall Flash Player
Instead of uninstalling flash player from Control Panel, I’d suggest you to use the official uninstaller provided by Adobe. There is one version of Adobe Flash Player uninstaller for Windows, and a few different ones for Mac. Before running the uninstaller, make sure you’ve closed all your web browsers, any games and also instant messenger programs such as Yahoo Messenger and Windows Live Messenger because the uninstaller cannot remove files currently in use. Click Yes when asked to confirm if you want to uninstall Adobe Flash Player and click Close.
Once you’ve finished uninstalling Adobe Flash Player, now download the latest version of Flash Player from the link below.
This page will let you manually select what operating system you are on and what browser you are trying to install the latest Flash Player for. Choose your operating system from the dropdown in step 1, and for Windows choose “Flash Player for other browsers” in step 2. Make sure to untick the adware option and click the button to download.
When the download has completed, again close any web browsers and instant messengers that are currently running, then run the installer.
Now you should have no problems in viewing videos that requires Flash Player. If it still didn’t work, just restart your computer after the flash update. Chrome users can continue to use this Flash Player until the next Chrome update where you can try again from the chrome://plugins page by enabling the internal version if you wish. If not, just carry on using this separately installed version.
10x! work’s great for chrome.
I’ve search for quite some time for a solution of youtube videos skipping in firefox, this did the trick, thank you so much!!!!!!
Είχα και γω το ίδιο πρόβλημα. Ο Firefox kai o chrome δεν επαιζαν video. Εγκατέστησα το
Adobe® Flash® Player Plugin Installer και τωρα όλα είναι ok.
It probably won’t work for everyone, but:
I just disabled the shockwave flash player from the firefox add ons dialog (plugins tab).
I tried to watch a video.
followed its flash installation instructions(don’t know if this was necessary, same version).
After re-enabling the shockwave plugin YouTube worked fine.
No restart of FireFox was even necessary.
This has been driving me crazy for days.
Thanks so much!!! I uninstalled Flash player and reinstalled a new updated version…so far so good.
I have the problem saying adobe flash not installed or java not on, I have installed newest firefox, adobe flash and also java and still same problem, videos only work in explorer. Please HELP
Im using a extension in Firefox, called “Flah Switcher” witch allows me to see wich version of flash does youtube videos behave better.. right now im using flash 9 r124…
I was having this problem, videos would stop loading after a few seconds, and after trying everything, I found my solution:
Disabling the Adblock Plus add-on seems to have done the trick. now everything works fine.
Hope this helps someone out there.
I downloaded the newest version of Google chrome and you tube still won’t play.
i use mozilla and IE , 1.I have deleted the adobe file and reinstalled
2.I have copy and pasted a dll file into the mozilla folder that another forum said it might be missing so i copy and pasted the file 3.I right clicked one of the tabs on screen to bring up a small youtube settings and tried changing some settings 4.I have tried tools>options and tried disabling and enabling block pop up windows that doesnt work 5.ive deletd the caches and cookies 6.all my wires are connected, my internet is fine , 7.ive tried everything the youtube help menu suggested 8,I deleted all spyware folders and files and all accelerating add ons that i attached
i AM lost do I have to reinstall java or sumthin
help please
everything i hav tried doesnt work it stops every 45 seconds no matter what i do , i have tried every possible thing to do my youtube clip just pauses even if you skip ahead it wont play the rest of the clip, it was working fine until a couple months back and now it pauses time after time
can you please help me noone else can
I too have faced this problem on Ubuntu. Definitely this problem is with ubuntu network manager. I mainly faced this type of loss of connection for sometime like 1-2 minutes or so on ADSL+ type of connection. After sometime it\’ll reconnect again. This will be irritating. What we can do is to disconnect and reconnect again and check whether Ubuntu is well connected to internet. This worked for me.
Hi Raymond. I frequently have the same problem but I have the latest in Flash, Firefox version, etc. installed.
As sometimes I don´t have time or I don´t want to restart Firefox (which fixes the problem), what I do is to load the Youtube video in an Internet Explorer tab using the “IE TAB” plugin and that fixes it. I can hear and play the video without problems.
Hope it helps somebody ;)
Regards from Peru
Thank you Ray
nice tip
And for Linux, it’s as simple as opening Synaptic and using that :lol:
thanx for the tip !!!
i remember this! thanks, only instead of Google Chrome, it was IE. instead of downloading it from the adobe page after it detected my OS and current browser, i just clicked on IE. thanks again.
I have once get that problem. My solution is to skip few seconds ahead, and the video will play well.
If you want to see which Flash Player is installed, visit this site:
macromedia.com/software/flash/about/
Good news for youtube, I believe it was a plug-in issue that should be fixed with the latest version of Google Chrome. If people were running something earlier than 0.3.154.6, then they were asked to please update.
Great Tip
Thanks