# Firefox stopped playing videos **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 26, 2011, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-stopped-playing-videos/572665 "2011-02-26T03:03:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![liirogue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dbc845/32.png) [@liirogue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liirogue)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-stopped-playing-videos/572665/1 "2011-02-26T03:03:43Z")
I noticed yesterday that Firefox suddenly stopped playing videos. IE is still working fine, so I don’t think it’s my computer per se. If I go to youtube, for example, the sound will play but the video just stays black. Netflix plays just fine, but nothing else seems to work. How do I fix it? ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-stopped-playing-videos/572665/2 "2011-02-26T03:10:27Z")
There’s a new version of the flash player. Woo first! ---
**Author:** ![Alley\_Dweller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alley_dweller/32/430_2.png) [@Alley\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alley_Dweller)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-stopped-playing-videos/572665/3 "2011-02-26T03:11:07Z")
Try [redownloading the Flash player](http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/) and reinstalling it. ---
**Author:** ![liirogue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dbc845/32.png) [@liirogue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liirogue)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-stopped-playing-videos/572665/4 "2011-02-26T03:23:02Z")
No luck. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-stopped-playing-videos/572665/5 "2011-02-26T03:31:39Z")
> [@liirogue](#): > > No luck. Wait a couple of days until Flash fixes it. I remember this happened a lot a while back. New version didn’t work, then there was a string of new updates over a very short time. ---
**Author:** ![thelabdude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@thelabdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelabdude)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-stopped-playing-videos/572665/6 "2011-02-26T03:58:24Z")
So who else is tired of Flash and constantly updating? ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-stopped-playing-videos/572665/7 "2011-02-26T04:14:31Z")
> [@thelabdude](#): > > So who else is tired of Flash and constantly updating? I like flash in general but they need to do a better job with updates. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-stopped-playing-videos/572665/8 "2011-02-26T04:52:48Z")
> [@thelabdude](#): > > So who else is tired of Flash and constantly updating? Me. About 10 to 15% of the videos don’t play. ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-stopped-playing-videos/572665/9 "2011-02-26T05:16:29Z")
See [this](http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing%20the%20Flash%20plugin#w_flash-works-in-internet-explorer-but-not-in-firefox). ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-stopped-playing-videos/572665/10 "2011-02-26T05:52:20Z")
> [@x-ray\_vision](#): > > See [this](http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing%20the%20Flash%20plugin#w_flash-works-in-internet-explorer-but-not-in-firefox). I had the problem, and it happened so often, and I would fix it with the above steps, then mysteriously break. Now I just watch all video on Chrome. I just wish chrome would fix their https bs. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-stopped-playing-videos/572665/11 "2011-02-26T05:59:18Z")
Clear your cache. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-stopped-playing-videos/572665/12 "2011-02-26T07:27:34Z")
My rule is to not update Flash when they first changed big version numbers. They’ve just went from 10.1 to 10.2. If I do upgrade, I make sure I still have the old installer so I can uninstall the new version and resinstall the old version. I also believe that the IE version of Flash 10.2 works better. On my dad’s old computer, I have him using IE for any flash games, as it’s almost as fast on that P3 as the Firefox plugin is on my Sempron 3100+.