YouTube: Scary loud, distorted sound

This happens seemingly at random on YouTube: The video loads (from the player bar), but the image remains blank. When attempting to play, a completely distorted noise AT FULL VOLUME is played (no video). This is scary and extremely unpleasant.
Any idea on what can cause that?
I have Glims and ClickToFlash installed.

HI,
ClickToFlash could be the culprit.
Go here for trouble shooting 3rd party plugins or input managers which might be causing the problem. Safari: Add-ons may cause Safari to unexpectedly quit or have performance issues
Also, delete and reinstall a new copy of the Flash Player plugin and see if that helps.
Uninstall Flash
Install Flash
Then repair disk permissions...
Quit any open applications/programs. Launch Disk Utility. (Applications/Utilities) Select MacintoshHD in the panel on the left, select the FirstAid tab. Click: Repair Disk Permissions. When it's finished from the Menu Bar, Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac. If you see a long list of "messages" in the permissions window, it's ok. That can be ignored. As long as you see, "Permissions Repair Complete" when it's finished... you're done. Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac.
Carolyn

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