FF browser freezes while watching YouTube using v15.0

My flash and plugins are all up to date. With v15.0 upon trying to watch a video, Firefox freezes for about 4-5 seconds as though the streaming of the video freezes the entire browser including ALL tabs. I have 20mb high speed cable. This is new to this upgrade. I am truly losing patience with Firefox this year, never had so many issues in the past.

Thank you for your replies. Sancrya11 I am using v15.0, your paths to clear private data don't exist nor a Show cookies button. What version are you referring to?
A previous version v14 I think said to use an older flash version. Perhaps I'll do that again. Strange that MS Explorer jives with the latest Flash versions and FF can't seem to get in stride. FF freezes if I move the scroll bar while watching a video. (I have acceleration set to not accelerate, either way, same result.) Once I get this figured out, I won't upgrade FF anymore, or just switch browsers. Seems there is always a problem with FF now a days. It used to be the best browser.

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