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trolo8

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    youtube player stops
    « on: November 06, 2008, 06:31:37 PM »
    Hey guys i have mozilla firefox and when i go to youtube.com and try to play videos they always load up for a few secs then stop and load again like my internet was wronge but when i go somewhere else the internet is fine but when i use IE it alsostops .. any ideas ?

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    Re: youtube player stops
    « Reply #1 on: November 06, 2008, 06:49:48 PM »
    All I can think of right now is - have you got latest flash plug-in installed.  Unless of course it might be a caching issue.
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    Re: youtube player stops
    « Reply #2 on: November 06, 2008, 06:58:15 PM »
    More info...
    Much more in fact.
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      Re: youtube player stops
      « Reply #3 on: November 06, 2008, 07:32:05 PM »
      what kind of info ? and i have the latest flash player installed i clears my cache and cookies and temporary internet files all that stuff i did

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      Re: youtube player stops
      « Reply #4 on: November 06, 2008, 08:19:37 PM »
      Windows version, type of connection?

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        Re: youtube player stops
        « Reply #5 on: November 06, 2008, 08:22:53 PM »
        Cable ( comcast )

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        Graphics Card: GeForce 6600 GT/PCI/SSE2
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        Re: youtube player stops
        « Reply #6 on: November 06, 2008, 08:36:27 PM »
        Close Firefox. Go Start>All Programs>Mozilla Firefox, click on Mozilla Firefox (safe mode). Same thing?

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          Re: youtube player stops
          « Reply #7 on: November 07, 2008, 04:02:04 PM »
          yep same thing ..

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          Re: youtube player stops
          « Reply #8 on: November 07, 2008, 07:38:15 PM »
          Uninstall Flash, using this: http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14157
          Install fresh copy.

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            Re: youtube player stops
            « Reply #9 on: November 11, 2008, 02:39:07 AM »
            I also encountered the same problem, what Youtube told is my java is not installed making me unable to connect or view videos. What i did was i downloaded java and it somehow enable me to access Youtube again.
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            Re: youtube player stops
            « Reply #10 on: November 11, 2008, 02:55:23 AM »
            This may be useful for updating and fixing up Java:
            http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,61227.0.html

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              Re: youtube player stops
              « Reply #11 on: November 11, 2008, 01:37:31 PM »
              for now it seems to be working ty very much

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              Re: youtube player stops
              « Reply #12 on: November 12, 2008, 08:39:41 AM »
              All right, good job. ;)