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Posted December 05, 2014
So, for maybe 2 or 3 days that i'm having this problem with youtube, sometimes it opens the site and others just give me the "the connection has timed out" message and in with google search, some images shows up and others don't.
I've tried IE (same problem) and Chrome (works perfectly) so i wonder, does anyone knows what's the problem?
It's the same with the other laptop so it's not only my computer and i've already tried opening a new FF window with no addons (safe mode), the problem remains.

Any ideas (besides the obvious "move on to Chrome")?
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Posted December 05, 2014
Your ISP might be the culprit. Try a DNS change, if that doesn't fix, call your ISP.

OpenSNS IPs
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
Posted December 05, 2014
Do you use Avast antivirus? I had some performance issues lately, one was that updating FF slowed my system to a crawl. Moved to Bitdefender Free. Much better now.
Posted December 05, 2014
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Cyraxpt: Any ideas (besides the obvious "move on to Chrome")?
Resign from YouTube? :)
Posted December 05, 2014
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OlivawR: Your ISP might be the culprit. Try a DNS change, if that doesn't fix, call your ISP.

OpenSNS IPs
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
Most popular and probably fastest DNS I know is 8.8.8.8 (google).
Posted December 05, 2014
Oh, yeah, because I don't use one, check AV.
Posted December 05, 2014
I would do a Malwarebytes scan. Even though you have the same problem on two computers this is often caused by some sort of malicious software.
Posted December 05, 2014
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OlivawR: Your ISP might be the culprit. Try a DNS change, if that doesn't fix, call your ISP.

OpenSNS IPs
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
But why would only affect firefox and not Chrome? And i'm not good with that kind of stuff, would putting (temporarily) my local laptop ip on the DMZ work for the test?
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chevkoch: Do you use Avast antivirus? I had some performance issues lately, one was that updating FF slowed my system to a crawl. Moved to Bitdefender Free. Much better now.
Nope, Kaspersky Internet Security 2015 and i already checked if it was related to the AV.
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Cyraxpt: Any ideas (besides the obvious "move on to Chrome")?
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zeffyr: Resign from YouTube? :)
Butz whr w1ll i c mah pewpewdie vids? :'(
Posted December 05, 2014
About FF, I use it exclusively and it has issues with html5 players on some machines since version ~32.
At work for example, with any version above 31, I cannot watch any html5 videos either on gog.com or directly on youtube.com or any other website for that matter.

it started the video, then reloads, the playback flickers and after a while it just loads endless.

p.s. on my gaming rig at home, ff has no problems with html5.
Post edited December 05, 2014 by disi
Posted December 05, 2014
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disi: About FF, I use it exclusively and it has issues with html5 players on some machines since version ~32.
At work for example, with any version above 31, I cannot watch any html5 videos either on gog.com or directly on youtube.com or any other website for that matter.

it started the video, then reloads, the playback flickers and after a while it just loads endless.

p.s. on my gaming rig at home, ff has no problems with html5.
FireFox having memory problems again?
Posted December 05, 2014
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disi: About FF, I use it exclusively and it has issues with html5 players on some machines since version ~32.
At work for example, with any version above 31, I cannot watch any html5 videos either on gog.com or directly on youtube.com or any other website for that matter.

p.s. on my gaming rig at home, ff has no problems with html5.
I noticed that since it had that problem where it stopped the video halfway and i had to refresh the page but they eventually fixed that (it took them a while though). I also used to watch videos at 1080p but since that update to 60fps (that doesn't work on ff) that the framerate is total garbage so i have to watch it in 720p.
Posted December 05, 2014
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disi: About FF, I use it exclusively and it has issues with html5 players on some machines since version ~32.
At work for example, with any version above 31, I cannot watch any html5 videos either on gog.com or directly on youtube.com or any other website for that matter.

p.s. on my gaming rig at home, ff has no problems with html5.
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Cyraxpt: I noticed that since it had that problem where it stopped the video halfway and i had to refresh the page but they eventually fixed that (it took them a while though). I also used to watch videos at 1080p but since that update to 60fps (that doesn't work on ff) that the framerate is total garbage so i have to watch it in 720p.
Sorry for spamming this thread but I've had similar problems related to Flash. When a new FireFox or Flash version is installed I'm usually fine.
Posted December 05, 2014
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OlivawR: Your ISP might be the culprit. Try a DNS change, if that doesn't fix, call your ISP.

OpenSNS IPs
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
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Cyraxpt: But why would only affect firefox and not Chrome? And i'm not good with that kind of stuff, would putting (temporarily) my local laptop ip on the DMZ work for the test?
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chevkoch: Do you use Avast antivirus? I had some performance issues lately, one was that updating FF slowed my system to a crawl. Moved to Bitdefender Free. Much better now.
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Cyraxpt: Nope, Kaspersky Internet Security 2015 and i already checked if it was related to the AV.
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zeffyr: Resign from YouTube? :)
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Cyraxpt: Butz whr w1ll i c mah pewpewdie vids? :'(
Chrome has its own DNS cache.
Posted December 05, 2014
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Cyraxpt: I noticed that since it had that problem where it stopped the video halfway and i had to refresh the page but they eventually fixed that (it took them a while though). I also used to watch videos at 1080p but since that update to 60fps (that doesn't work on ff) that the framerate is total garbage so i have to watch it in 720p.
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Tarm: Sorry for spamming this thread but I've had similar problems related to Flash. When a new FireFox or Flash version is installed I'm usually fine.
Flash videos work fine at work for me and never had a problem with firefox.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=html5+player
Post edited December 05, 2014 by disi
Posted December 05, 2014
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Tarm: Sorry for spamming this thread but I've had similar problems related to Flash. When a new FireFox or Flash version is installed I'm usually fine.
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disi: Flash videos work fine at work for me and never had a problem with firefox.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=html5+player
Ah ok. Might be me that mess up flash sometimes then.
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