I'm always getting email with links to youtube and various other flash-intensive websites, and just a few days ago the flash content stopped loading in firefox when I click on the URL in thunderbird.
For example, the youtube web page opens normally and all the various icons come up, but the video window just stays black instead of playing the video. If I then use the same firefox session to visit other websites, their flash content doesn't load either. Here is the really weird part: if a firefox window is *already* open when I click the URL in thunderbird, all the flash stuff comes up normally in the existing firefox window :-/ Using ps to examine the firefox process shows the URL to be exactly the same as if I start firefox from a command prompt, so thunderbird isn't corrupting the URL that it passes to firefox. As I said, this problem started just recently, after working correctly for years. I'm stumped. Any thoughts?
