For those of you that use Firefox for your browser....

The latest update for Adobe Flash Player (11.3.300.262) most likely will cause you to lose the ability to watch videos from youtube.com, news videos, etc.

After a great deal of swearing, uninstalling Flash Player, etc., here is the solution:

Flash Player fix

Turns out that it's really "Real Player" that's screwing up the works. EZ fix and you can bet I've prinbted it out for the next time so I don't have to keep changing browsers to watch videos!

Thanks for the link it's work efficiently.

Their site looks like its more of a blame game than anything given there's two solutions, one for those with Real Player installed and those without.

From a software engineering standpoint, if something is borked with and without a piece of software, then that software isn't the root of the cause.

This is the exact reason I moved to Chrome earlier this year...Firefox continuing to fall down to the level of Internet Exploder.