Firefox3 and Adobe Flash Issue

Users of Firefox3 (including me) have complained that certain Flash videos don’t play on Windows XP or Vista, when using the current Flash player version 9. On YouTube, CNET TV, and other sites, embedded videos will start, but they halt after two seconds.

Both Mozilla and Adobe have been aware of the issue since late May, but as yet no permanent  solution has been found. For some people suffering from this bug, it’s intermittent.

To date there are few workaround solutions:

• Install the Flash 10 player, which is still in beta. Unfortunately, many Flash video sites don’t recognize that Flash 10 is a valid and current player. CNN, for example, thinks Flash 10 beta is older than Flash 8, asks users to upgrade to Flash 9, and thus won’t play at all.
• Install the IETab Firefox extension to switch back and forth. This problem does not occur with IE
• Just restart Firefox without enabling the old tabs

[Via Webware]

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