Seriously, since a couple days ago I seem to be unable to watch/load any embedded videos that aren't youtube on my browsers (that's both Firefox and Safari).
Whenever I want to watch a video (say, for example, the Zero Punctuation vids on the Escapist), my browser will get halfway there, then stop and give me the never-ending rainbow wheel. At that point I have to use Force Quit to make it stop. (note my whole computer doesn't freeze, it's just the browser)
And this isn't just with actual videos either, it does this with certain ads too, if they have video in them. So right now I am guaranteed to have to Force Quit my browser several times in one sitting because of this stupid video freeze thing. Only youtube seems immune. Megavideo, Veoh, all of it freeze otherwise. It in particular seems to have a problem with the "videoegg" types (at least that's what I see as the item loading on my bottom bar when it freezes).
Did I inadvertently get some weird virus? Or is my computer just nuts?