[Solved] Youtube & Flash Videos broken?

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in message <20130408093145.GA3009 at tinyCurrent>,
wrote Matthias Apitz thusly...
>
> El día Monday, April 08, 2013 a las 11:04:41AM +0200, Patrick Lamaiziere escribió:
>
> > Le Sun, 7 Apr 2013 13:38:55 +0200,
> > Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh at schweikhardt.net> a écrit :
> >
> > > # We've had a thread about it in the forums, with a couple of
> > > workarounds: # http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=38627
> > >
> > > Thanks for this helpful link. It contained the solution to my problem:
> > >
> > >   1) In about:config, set dom.ipc.plugins.enabled to false
> > >   2) Exit and restart Firefox (really, just doing 1) did not work).
> >
> > Cool that works here too, nice. Thanks.
>
> I helped me as well. Can someone give a bit light of explanation
> what the parameter does in detail and why it should be set to
> 'false'? Thanks

An explanation on Adobe forum ...

  http://forums.adobe.com/thread/666110
    32d reply ...
      ...
      The crash protection feature in Firefox 3.6 is enabled for
      certain  plugins only. The four preferences that we
      modified here specifies four different out-of-process
      plugins. They are  the the NPAPI test plugin, Adobe Flash,
      Apple QuickTime (Windows) and Microsoft Silverlight
      (Windows). These plugins are specified in a separate
      dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.<filename> preference by default is
      set to true. We can disable them by changing their value to
      false. And thus plugin-container.exe will not run. By
      default the preference dom.ipc.plugins.enabled is already
      set to "false". So, no need to touch it. The
      dom.ipc.plugins.timeoutSecs is also not important here as
      other values are false.


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(Also, I was reminded of "perlipc" pod related to inter-process
communication in Perl.)


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