I'm sure the big problem with freezing videos on 2 seconds wouldn't be solved by that change, as till you've killed that window, and sometimes till you've restarted firefox, you still get the problem when you've opened an individual comment as its own page, or independently on youtube.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

From what I can see, changing to iPod videos (adding &fmt=18 to the end of the v= string) fixed all the frozen ones from here that I could track down on YouTube through text search and get to freeze inside YouTube ...

... now, I've never seen the freeze anywhere else that I embed videos, and those would be places where I copy and paste the embed code from YouTube rather than use a scoop macro ... but that could just be that I never happened to have used one of the videos that freeze.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.