For the second time now I am having problems with websites like youtube or BBC freezing the browser (FireFox, Opera and Konqueror) when I play a video.
When starting up a video it will play (jumpy) for anywhere between 5 & 8 seconds then the video will freeze. I can click on the video time line to jump to another point of the video and it will play at the new point again for a few seconds and then freeze. As soon as I try and open a new tab or webpage the browser freezes and I have to kill it.
I have tried uninstalling Firefox and Opera and the Adobe flash flash player and reinstalling but I get the same behaviour.
I had this behaviour before and after doing a couple of re-installs of browser and flash plugin it worked again, but not his time.
Another strange thing I have noticed is that sometimes the light on my webcam flashes when playing video in the browser. Normally the light stays on steadily when I am in a vid conference.
I have googles around for this problem and it seems common enough but I cannot find a solution that works for me.
Currently I am using openSuse 11.0 32 bit, KDE 3.5 and Adobe flash player 9.
I have various plugins installed on Firefox, e.g.Mplayer, Divx etc.
Does anybody know the actual cause and surefire solution for this.