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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net>
Subject: Re: Youtube & Flash Videos broken?
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On Sat, 6 Apr 2013, Jens Schweikhardt wrote:

> I have trouble playing Youtube videos in flash format in Firefox. This
> has worked in the past, but for a few weeks now, the flash videos
> display as a b/w noise background picture with a message centered "To
> render this video you need the Adobe Flash Player. Install latest Flash
> Player". Has Youtube conspired against me, you, FreeBSD, the world? :-)

We've had a thread about it in the forums, with a couple of workarounds:
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=38627