[SOLVED] Flash randomly crashes or does nothing on Youtube

[onlooker]

I'm using Firefox ESR 17.0.6 and I'm having a hard time watching videos on YouTube. So far it hasn't crashed on other sites like Vimeo and such, but then again, I don't use them as often as YouTube. I've had the flash plug-in crash several times at random (complete with the sad-face lego brick-thing) and other times the video won't even load. As in, the Youtube video GUI loads fine and the video doesn't. The buttons seem responsive, but the video still fails to load. I tried waiting for 30 minutes for a 15-minute 480p video to load, thinking I was perhaps impatient, but still nothing.

Everything was installed via the Software Management tool and I have the following repositories enabled: Core Release, Core Updates, Nonfree Release, Nonfree Updates, Tainted Release and Tainted Updates.

EDIT: Forgot to mention that I've tried using it in Konqueror and it seems to work fine there.

[oj]

Are you in the html5 trial on youtube? https://www.youtube.com/html5

[onlooker]

No, I am not. Last time I tried it fullscreen didn't work, some videos only went up to 360p while their flash counterparts were 720p and some videos just defaulted back to flash anyway.

[doktor5000]

Please have a look at our MAQeia for flash player plugin: viewtopic.php?f=34&t=880

[onlooker]

Installing flash-player-plugin-kde seems to have fixed it. Thank you!

[doktor5000]

flash-player-plugin-kde only provides the KDE applet to control flash player settings from KDE control center, it should work without ...
Did you have flash-player-plugin installed before or not?

[onlooker]

Yeah, I had flash-player-plugin, but not flash-player-plugin-kde. And I swear, it hasn't crashed since.

[isadora]

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