Fedora 17 KDE hangs while playing YouTube videos

[Rex Dieter]

On 07/30/2012 12:12 AM, Nikhil bhalwankar wrote:

> I am facing a weired issue while playing YouTube videos on KDE session
> of Fedora 17. The session freezes while videos are getting played. The
> issue is intermittant. Can anybody please help me on this?

session freeze as in even mouse doesn't move?  If so, almost certainly 
some sort of video driver hang/crash.  Some questions to help answer better:
1.  How were you watching/playing these videos exactly?
2.  What video hardware/driver are you using?

-- rex