Flash player works only for a while

[David Kramer]

Theodore Ruegsegger wrote:
> I've been annoyed for a while now by a consistent, reproducible
> problem with the shockwave flash plugin to Firefox.
> I don't know when it started because it's only been in the last coupla
> months or so that I've been playing a lot of flash videos.
> 
> The flash player works fine for some time after I start up Firefox. If
> I leave the browser running and return to it some time later, flash
> doesn't play properly; the picture jerks or freezes and the sound
> comes out like a random syllable repeated endlessly, all this while
> the progress bar moves along as if everything were fine. If I exit
> Firefox, make sure it's terminated, and then restart it, flash plays
> fine again.

> Am I the only one with this problem? Can anyone give me suggestions on
> how to go about solving it?

Hardly.  I can't get it working consistently on any of by Linux boxen.
It starts out great, but after using it for a while, either sound stops
working or they just play for a second or two then stop.