Watching Videos in Firefox

Hey,
After installing the newest flashplugin I was able to watch videos on youtube and other sites but somehow I cant watch movies from http://www.own3d.tv/, I can't even see the embedded Videoplayer interface on other pages.
I hope someone can tell me how to solve this problem.
Rgds
shahon

I hope I can post here.
On many websites (i.e. Youtube, Dailymotion...) using flash, when I click on play, or pause, it's absolutely without effects, since a long time.. (I tried with Firefox, or others browsers, it's the same)..
Thanks in advance

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