Firefox crashes when viewing Youtube videos

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If Firefox is crashing when you try to view videos on YouTube, it is usually caused by the Flash plugin conflicting with one of your extensions.

Note: This article applies to the Windows version of Firefox only. For Flash related crashes on Mac OSX, see Pages that use the Flash plugin crash on Mac.


Update Firefox

Firefox 3.6.4 and above load plugins separately from Firefox, allowing Firefox to stay open if a plugin crashes. To make sure you are using the latest version of Firefox, see Update Firefox to the latest release.


Conflict with extensions

Firefox extensions can cause this crash. To test whether your crash is happening because of an extension, try launching Firefox's Diagnose Firefox issues using Troubleshoot Mode:

Click the menu button Fx89menuButton, click Help, select Troubleshoot Mode… and click Restart in the Restart Firefox in Troubleshoot Mode? dialog.

Note: You can also start Firefox in Troubleshoot Mode by holding down the Shift key while starting Firefox.holding down the option key while starting Firefox.quitting Firefox and then going to your Terminal and running: firefox -safe-mode
You may need to specify the Firefox installation path (e.g. /usr/lib/firefox).

  1. In the Firefox Safe Mode dialog, click Continue in Safe Mode.
  2. Attempt to view videos to test for the crash.


Flash plugin

The NPSWF32.dll file is associated with the Flash plugin. If the crash still happened in Firefox's safe mode, try uninstalling and re-installing the Flash plugin:

  1. For instructions on uninstalling the Flash plugin, see Adobe.com's article on uninstalling Flash.
  2. To re-install Flash, go to the Adobe Flash Player download page.
  3. Click the Download now button to download the installer.
  4. After you've downloaded the installer file, double-click it and then follow the on-screen instructions.
  5. Restart Firefox.

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