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    beew is offline I Ubuntu, Therefore, I Am
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    Opera freezes when exit fullscreen Youtube videos

    Go to Youtube to watch any video in any resolution, go to full screen, so far it is all good. Let it play for a bit and then exit full screen and Opera freezes even though sound is still playing in the background.

    Flash is up to date (installed with flash-aid) and Youtube works fine with FireFox. I an using Opera 11.50 in Maverick.

    I am wondering if anyone has experienced the same problem and if there is a work around. Thanks.

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    Re: Opera freezes when exit fullscreen Youtube videos

    I've had abominable experiences on ubuntu showing browser video
    however, for youtube you can opt into using html5

    http://www.youtube.com/html5

    this has greatly reduced issues.
    I'm on a fresh install on ubuntu 11.10
    without using flash aid and its STABLE at last
    good luck

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    Re: Opera freezes when exit fullscreen Youtube videos

    It used to work and I have never experienced a problem with Firefox. HTML5 is fine but it doesn't always have the highest resolution, moreover on my machine Flash uses hardware acceleration so cpu usage is actually way lower with flash than html5.

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    Re: Opera freezes when exit fullscreen Youtube videos

    Ok, figured it out, installing the beta version of Flash from Adobe (using Flash-aid) solves the issue with Opera freezing but the beta version doesn't use vdpau apparently.

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    Re: Opera freezes when exit fullscreen Youtube videos

    P.S. It seems that this problem happens only with Youtube, tried Vimeo and maximizing/unmaximizing works fine.

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    Re: Opera freezes when exit fullscreen Youtube videos

    Same problem with Opera (11.50) in Natty (I started the thread because of Opera crashing in Maverick), with the stable version of flash, exiting from Youtube freezes and crashes Opera. Beta version of Flash from Adobe lap doesn't cause the freeze, but this version doesn't use VDPAU.

    I am not sure if this problem only happens when Nvidia driver is in use. Will try the stable version of flash on another install using nouveau and see what happens.

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    Re: Opera freezes when exit fullscreen Youtube videos

    Just checked with the Natty install with the nouveau driver, flash stable version doesn't crash Opera but there was a bit of lag going full screen to normal size windows. The experimental beta version of flash doesn't suffer any lag.

    So it seems that Opera does have a bit of a problem with the latest stable version of flash on Youtube but the Nvidia driver somehow exacerbates it.

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    Re: Opera freezes when exit fullscreen Youtube videos

    Just updated to Opera 11.51. The problem persists, flash stable version (10.3.183.7)still crashes Opera on youtube when going from fullscreen to normal size.

    Also Opera seems to be using a lot more cpu than Firefox (without Youtube) Wonder if others have the same problem.

    I am using Ubuntu10.10 mainly but same problems exist for 11.04.

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    Re: Opera freezes when exit fullscreen Youtube videos

    Oh, the problem is not really solved. I have mistakenly marked the thread as solved but I can't unmark it.

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    Re: Opera freezes when exit fullscreen Youtube videos

    hello,
    i haven't this issue with opera 11.51 and xubuntu 11.04.
    it's better to ask stupid question than to do something stupid.

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