Youtube - Flash Crashing due to bad ad on 2 computers with Firefox

[DaveLembke]

Found it interesting today that an ad at the top of www.Youtube.com for Samsung Galaxy was showing as a green rectangular window but yet the watermark etc shown as Galaxy, which I assume is Samsung Galaxy, and it was crashing Flash Plugin and causing Firefox to lock up. After about 20 seconds a message popped up giving choice to wait or shutdown the flash plugin that is not responding. Tried this 3 times on same computer, then gave up on my desktop and fired up my netbook and same issue happened with latest Firefox and Youtube main page's Galaxy ad crashing it.

Maybe when I go to Youtube later, they will have fixed or moved on to a different advertisement that doesnt crash Flash on Firefox and render Youtube non-functional, since without Flash youtube cant play videos etc. Did not test it with IE or any other browser.

Seems as though this ad is a corrupt file linked to their main site, or doesnt play well with latest Firefox and Flash Plugin.

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

The ad won't get past the first 3 seconds for me.

I use adblock so I would never have noticed it. Had to disable it to see what you were talking about.

[DaveLembke]

Maybe I should be using adblock 

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

I love it.

With adblock:
http://i.imgur.com/39KY5LY.png

Without adblock:
http://i.imgur.com/cvHGZN8.png


With adblock:
http://i.imgur.com/BV70MZf.png

Without adblock:
http://i.imgur.com/Y0DOMh9.png

I love that it gets rid of that stuff on the left.

[DaveLembke]

VERY COOL!!! 

Going to try that out when I get home from work!

[soybean]

The ad at the top of www.Youtube.com for Samsung Galaxy played fine for me in IE10 and Opera 12.15 on my Windows 8 laptop.  I don't have Firefox installed on this computer.

[DaveLembke]

Interesting that it appears to be an issue with Firefox's Flash Plugin then.

Only other difference is that your running Windows 8 and Carbon and I are running Win 7

[soybean]

I just tried on my Win 7 desktop system, using Firefox 19... and it worked.  It seemed a bit slow in displaying the ad but once it was displayed, I could expand the ad and clicked to forward and backward arrows that appear in the expanded view of the ad.

Just out of curiosity, what antivirus program are you using?  And, any other protections apps running in the background?

[DaveLembke]

Only using MSSE, no other protections other than whats already built into FF20 with virus scan for downloads etc.

Also guessing that with enough people using FF20, that Youtube aka Google may have gotten complaints to fix it by now, since 6 hrs have gone by since I had the issue at home with 2 different computers both running FF20, and cant test it from Gov computer.