So for some reason today, Firefox and IE both decided to start freezing whenever I access some kind of flash file. it will usually start out, work for a second, then hang. Youtube hangs almost immediately, while some flash game i went to took a little longer. My banking site has flash on the front page that froze too.

I'm going to keep trying to fix the problem, but thought I would come here for suggestions. I have already uninstalled and reinstalled flash. I'll list my plugins below, though I don't know if they would be the problem since the same damn thing happens in IE as well.

Firefox (3.0.4) plugins:
Adblock Plus 1.0
FireFTP 1.0.2
Flashblock 1.5.7.1
Foxmarks Synchronizer 2.6
Gmail Notifier 0.6.3.10
Greasemonkey 0.8.2something (currently disabled)

All these plugins have been installed for a while now. Nothing is new. One of them updated recently, but I didn't notice which one. I would suspect that to be the problem, except that it happens in IE too, so I don't know. I'll post a solution if I figure one out. Thank for any help you might have.

Update:
Only happens when theres audio. Youtube with no audio works fine, but when you do one with audio, shit hangs.



[Edited on December 14, 2008 at 8:38 PM. Reason : add]

12/14/2008 8:29:14 PM

I ended up rolling back my audio driver and now everything works again. In the process, I found out that my laptop isnt listed on the manufacturers website in the drivers support section. They need to get on the ball.

12/15/2008 11:37:58 AM