Recent Youtube/flash problems. Firefox 30.

[Marco Polo]

I hate Flash. It is nothing but a piece of shit and all it does is break, crash, and malfunction. Adobe should rot in hell for perpetuating this nonsense.

Basically, I get to watch one, if I'm I'm lucky, Youtube video. After that "an error occurs" and no video will load. It is pissing me off. Flash should have died its deserved death years ago, but retardo Adobe just keeps it going.

Is anyone else having this problem? Once "an error occurs" nothing I do makes the videos play, not even closing and restarting the browser. Even rebooting my computer doesn't reliably work. What is going on and how do I fix this crap? I have never had this problem before; it is only with Windows 8 and Firefox 30 that Youtube breaks and will not play. PIECE OF SHIT. I can't say that enough. It is such poor quality BS.

Thanks. Sorry to sound irritated but I'm fed up with Shitwave Flash and wish it would just drop off the earth and rot in its appointed room in hell.

 

[Sigurthr]

I'm having similar issues with all Google products, but I use IE and Chrome, also on Win8.1, also all browsers on 7 (laptop).

I think it is google (* and others) getting throttled by ISPs though. I can stream three movies simultaneously on Netflix but I can't watch a youtube video on 480p without it buffering every 10seconds. Half the time the page doesn't load correctly, and 40% of the time I get the "an error occurs" error. I was using google's DNS service because my ISP's is unreliable and crashes a lot, but about 80% of my DNS lookups were failing. * I'm getting similar issues with facebook, twitter, twitch, etc. Only big name places, places that would be subject to throttling. And the real telling part is that Netflix, who paid the throttler's ransom, isn't affected.

 

[Marco Polo]

Subject to throttling? Oh, that would piss me off. Last I checked, I was paying actual, non-imaginary dollars to Time Warner for internet access, so they shouldn't be "throttling" anything. If it were something like a university network, that's one thing, but I have roadrunner and I would find it very disappointing that they would "throttle" my access rather than just raising my monthly rate if they felt that my bandwidth usage was a problem.

Not that they should, I've torrented exactly one (1) movie in my lifetime, "The Fifth Element." I thought it was a cute movie so I torrented it. I don't need to torrent anything else because I already have it on a hard drive, thanks to a friend.

Reinstalling flash at the moment, maybe that will fix it, but still. Never a problem with it till yesterday or so. Wasn't HTML5 supposed to kill Flash at some point? Can it still? Pretty please?

eta: Reinstalled flash and no dice, not with Firefox 30. It's Flash player version 14 "for other browsers" but Firefox won't play anything on Youtube no matter how much I swear at it. IE will, so apparently it's a Firefox issue, maybe? Come on Mozilla

 

[Sigurthr]

I've had the issue for weeks now, and it seems hardware and software independent. It could very well be two different issues resulting in similar results, I mean the "an error occured" problem isn't exactly descriptive, heh.

Just FYI, the throttling isn't between the ISP and you, it is between the end content and the ISP; that's how they can legally get away with it. They aren't throttling your connection, just the connection of the content you want. Look up Net Neutrality for more info.

Here's an excellent explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAxMyTwmu_M