# Youtube with Firefox 28 quit working. Discussions on Google have me overwhelmed. **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 21, 2014, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-with-firefox-28-quit-working-discussions-on-google-have-me-overwhelmed/686639 "2014-04-21T22:39:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-with-firefox-28-quit-working-discussions-on-google-have-me-overwhelmed/686639/1 "2014-04-21T22:39:15Z")
YouTube suddenly quit with working with my FF28. Just sets there. Does nothing. The little activity indicator at mid-screen don’t even turn. YouTube works with my IE. (Win 7.x) Went a Goggling and found this is reported many places. Some even boast of solutions but I don’t understand. Not sure others do either as there are no ‘thanks, that worked’ responses. Do you know of any fix? I can use IE. More of a curiosity than a need. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-with-firefox-28-quit-working-discussions-on-google-have-me-overwhelmed/686639/2 "2014-04-21T22:47:00Z")
Reported for forum change. ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-with-firefox-28-quit-working-discussions-on-google-have-me-overwhelmed/686639/3 "2014-04-21T23:29:39Z")
Works for me. FF28, Ubuntu Linux. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-with-firefox-28-quit-working-discussions-on-google-have-me-overwhelmed/686639/4 "2014-04-22T01:23:19Z")
> [@janeslogin](#): > > Do you know of any fix? I can use IE. More of a curiosity than a need. Try upgrading or re-installing your Adobe Flash player. You can [download it here.](http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/) And please, for the love of all that’s holy, avoid using IE – it’s the Internet’s biggest virus vector. :o ---
**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:** [April 22, 2014, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-with-firefox-28-quit-working-discussions-on-google-have-me-overwhelmed/686639/5 "2014-04-22T03:30:10Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > Try upgrading or re-installing your Adobe Flash player. You can [download it here.](http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/) > > And please, for the love of all that’s holy, avoid using IE – it’s the Internet’s biggest virus vector. :o Also, be sure to look for the instructions about uninstalling, because your Flash may be so messed up that a reinstall won’t properly uninstall everything. You may have to download a special program to clean it all out. If that doesn’t work, you can also try reinstalling Firefox. If that doesn’t work, you may have to [reset Firefox](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/reset-firefox-easily-fix-most-problems). You’ll have to reinstall any extensions (aka add-ons), but everything else will still be there (unless you’ve tweaked advanced settings under the hood–which I doubt, since you’re asking this question). ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-with-firefox-28-quit-working-discussions-on-google-have-me-overwhelmed/686639/6 "2014-04-22T03:34:42Z")
**Moderator Action** Since this problem isn’t related to the SDMB, let’s move it somewhere more appropriate. Moving thread from About This Message Board to General Questions. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-with-firefox-28-quit-working-discussions-on-google-have-me-overwhelmed/686639/7 "2014-04-22T04:45:05Z")
Or you can try skipping Flash altogether and make YouTube play video in HTML5 mode: [https://www.youtube.com/html5](https://www.youtube.com/html5) ---
**Author:** ![Myglaren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Myglaren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myglaren)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-with-firefox-28-quit-working-discussions-on-google-have-me-overwhelmed/686639/8 "2014-04-22T05:30:54Z")
> [@Canadjun](#): > > Works for me. FF28, Ubuntu Linux. Same here, Ff28/Linux Mint Petra & Ubuntu Saucy Chromium is glitchy though. ---
**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-with-firefox-28-quit-working-discussions-on-google-have-me-overwhelmed/686639/9 "2014-04-23T22:18:33Z")
> [@Reply](#): > > Or you can try skipping Flash altogether and make YouTube play video in HTML5 mode: > [https://www.youtube.com/html5](https://www.youtube.com/html5) That worked.Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-with-firefox-28-quit-working-discussions-on-google-have-me-overwhelmed/686639/10 "2014-04-24T06:50:58Z")
When this happened to me it was because there was a setting in Flash player for “enable hardware acceleration”. Shutting this off fixed the problem. I was able to turn it on again later without the problem coming back. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-with-firefox-28-quit-working-discussions-on-google-have-me-overwhelmed/686639/11 "2014-04-24T07:52:16Z")
> [@janeslogin](#): > > That worked.Thanks. Be advised though that not all YouTube videos will work with HTML5. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-with-firefox-28-quit-working-discussions-on-google-have-me-overwhelmed/686639/12 "2014-04-25T00:34:28Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > Be advised though that not all YouTube videos will work with HTML5. Oh? I didn’t know that. When does it not work? (I had thought the HTML5 player was just a replacement for the Flash player, and that the actual videos stayed the same encoding. What makes them different in terms of playback ability?) ---
**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2014, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-with-firefox-28-quit-working-discussions-on-google-have-me-overwhelmed/686639/13 "2014-04-26T23:58:40Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > Try upgrading or re-installing your Adobe Flash player. You can [download it here.](http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/) … Rumored to be a problem with comparability between Adobe Flash and FF28. ---
**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:** [April 27, 2014, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-with-firefox-28-quit-working-discussions-on-google-have-me-overwhelmed/686639/14 "2014-04-27T09:37:43Z")
> [@Reply](#): > > Oh? I didn’t know that. When does it not work? (I had thought the HTML5 player was just a replacement for the Flash player, and that the actual videos stayed the same encoding. What makes them different in terms of playback ability?) Only files that are in or have been converted to the HTML5 video codec that works in your browser are available. This covers most videos, however. There are also some official channels that don’t seem to be available in HTML5. I’m not sure if they just haven’t been properly converted for some reason, or if the way YouTube handles them is different. Either way, I bet it’s something in their contract. I had trouble with videos from the Ellen Show, for example. (At least, I think that was it.) EDIT: I think there also might be problems if you have too complex notations on your video. At least, that used to be a problem. The HTML5 video player has come a long way, but it’s still in beta. ---
**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-with-firefox-28-quit-working-discussions-on-google-have-me-overwhelmed/686639/15 "2014-04-28T23:32:39Z")
Now it is rumored that FF29.x will come out tomorrow AND there will be a plethora of unfamiliar problems.