Both Firefox and Chrome lock up when I click on a YouTube video to play it. Chrome, at least, gives me this pop-up error message:

What is the cure for this?

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Maestro

Try to download the shockwave player again.

It's here:

http://www.adobe.com/products/shockwaveplayer/

Hope that helps.

Edit: Forgot to thank you for putting up all those good vids on youtube! Great work, keep it up!

Edited May 21, 201016 yr by DanaDeLuxe

Actually youtube requirement is for Adobe (Macromedia) Flash Player 7.0+ plug-in. Get Adobe

Problem solved. I did what I should have done in the first place. I did a full shutdown, went to have a cup of tea, came back 20 minutes later, started the computer again, and I can view YouTube videos again. But I was really scared there for a moment.

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Maestro

Problem solved. I did what I should have done in the first place. I did a full shutdown, went to have a cup of tea, came back 20 minutes later, started the computer again, and I can view YouTube videos again. But I was really scared there for a moment.

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Maestro

Youtube withdrawal, now that's just sad.

Actually I had a similar problem recently with a message to upgrade Flash. Flash movies (youtube, etc.) just stopped working. Uninstalling & re-installing, no help. Used Adobe's "special" flash player removal tool, still no youtube. Saw the version would never change from 7.x to 9.x which was the update. Appears there removal is not very effective as it keeps the old dll and puts the new dll in a different place but continues using the old one. Found the old one and deleted it and voila, the new version started working and had flash capability again. In case others run into it, here are links to the solutions.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13554_3-9858449-33.html

http://news.cnet.com/problems-updating-the...fox-heres-help/