Here’s another computer problem that abhiram was experiencing in his Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome browser. When trying to view a video in YouTube, the video wouldn’t play properly. It’d either have no sound or completely stop after playing for a few seconds. It could only be 2 possibility and that is his unstable internet connection or flash player since YouTube uses flash player to stream videos. He confirmed that the problem on appears in Chrome and Firefox but worked perfectly in Internet Explorer browser.

Immediately this tells us that his flash player is either corrupted or he is using an outdated version of flash which doesn’t support YouTube or not compatible with Chrome/Firefox. The solution to fix this problem is to uninstall the currently installed flash player, download the latest version and then install it.


Instead of uninstalling flash player from Control Panel, I’d suggest you to use the official uninstaller provided by Adobe. There are four versions of Adobe Flash Player uninstaller, each designed for the appropriate operating system. Before running the uninstaller, make sure you’ve closed all your web browsers and also instant messengers such as Yahoo Messenger and Windows Live Messenger because the uninstaller cannot remove files currently in use. Click Yes when asked to confirm if you want to uninstall Adobe Flash Player and click Close.

Windows: uninstall_flash_player.exe

Mac OS X, version 10.3 and above: uninstall_flash_player_osx.dmg

Mac OS X, version 10.2 and below: uninstall_flash_player_osx_10.2.dmg

Mac OS 8.x, 9.x: uninstall_flash_player.hqx

Once you’ve finished uninstalling Adobe Flash Player, now download the latest version of Flash Player from the link below.
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
This page will automatically detect what operating system are you on and what browser are you trying to install the latest Flash Player. When the download has completed, again close any web browser and instant messenger that is running, then only run the installer.

Now you should have no problems in viewing videos that requires Flash Player. If it still didn’t work, just restart your computer after the flash update.