Youtube Videos Play/Stop In 2 Seconds

Such is the world today with google that people who understand that problems exist are apt to simply type into google the important bit of information about their problem and call up a nice page like this to find out why exactly with Firefox and Flash their embedded Youtube videos play for about two seconds without sound before stopping. Even with the download itself finishing and refusing to show you the video. It did it here and there in my previous version of Firefox but upgrading to Firefox 3.0 and clearing out the profile and starting from scratch it should have corrected if it was my problem.

It wasn't.

The problem is with Flash 9.0.115.0 and the solution is downgrading:

Uninstall the current version you have installed get a copy of 9.0.47.0 and watch videos again.

The instruction for uninstalling are a bit draconian (get uninstaller, run it in the command line! ZOMG!) but required.

To celebrate... here's Hey There Delilah (are you suppose to italicize music video names?). Google visitors coming in to see if there's a solution to your problem... don't you wish you could play this?

The internet has ads?

For the last several years I've used firefox and ad block constantly. Due to an issue that cropped up with Firefox 3 refusing to play embedded youtube videos I decided to just export my bookmark, backup my profile, and start a fresh install with Firefox 3.0. This lead to the temporary effect of having ad block not installed...

Holy crap. The internet is full of ads. There's one of semistreaming video of a guy grabbing letters. They are to the sides of my favorite site. They are at the top as well! Remember folks, you heard it on this blog first... there are ads on the internet!

Programs to use:

I have been around computers since preschool during the 80s, and now my whole family pretty soundly has computers all over the place and so the best programs for certain tasks get found and used. So, as nobody reads this blog and it's sooo pressing to know. The following are programs you should use.

Firefox
Web browsing with a much improved browser. I also highly recommend getting adblock as an add-on.

Stickies
Post it notes for your computer desktop. Many members of my family use them, and use the network features as well. It is not uncommon to toss notes around the house with the program.

Trillian
Instant Messenger client for all the major instant messenger software suites. It does ICQ, AOL, MSN, Yahoo... and save the hassle of caring about the messengers and having too many odd tray programs.

Net Meter
Displays bandwidth usage and statistics for your computer. You can tell how much information is moving through your system.

mIRC
Basically the it program for IRC communications. Has a built in language and a vast number of scripts for it. I've written quite a few myself.

FastStone Image Viewer
Graphics viewer. I use to use ACDSee for such a purpose, but they got too clunky.

Team Talk 3
Very basic network speech capabilities, a must for slightly dispersed LAN parties.

Stroke It
Mouse Gestures for windows. Draw a 'C' to close. 'W' for web. Amazing how often they are exceedingly useful.

Azureus
Still makes the list even though Vuze is just stupid. Great bit torrent client with a good set of fantastic features.