Youtube videos quit buffering - hang.

Firefox 25.0.1
Windows 7 64 bit latest and greatest
Flash 11.9.900.152
I have tried everything I can think of. HTML5 videos do just fine. Flash videos do okay on Chrome. Under Firefox, sometimes the videos play okay. When they do hang, which is often, I can almost always get them going again by moving forward or back in the video and hitting pause and go, or by refreshing the page.
I have tried uninstalling/re-installing both Firefox and Flash. I set all Flash settings, local and global, to defaults.
What can I do?
P.s. Even when the Flash vids buffer up, they do so much more slowly than HTML5, and do not buffer nearly as far ahead. Flash shows many, many "dropped" in the stats. HTML5 always says 0 frames dropped.

Chrome has its own Flash Player built in ("PepperFlash"). It functions independently of the plugin for Firefox or even the ActiveX for IE.
And HTML5 is MP4 which doesn't require Flash Player at all, but is rendered using the browser engine.
Of late, I've experienced YouTube videos that previously played through with no problems freezing, and I have to refresh the page to get them to play again. I'm not seeing it anywhere else, like news or sports sites, so I suspect it's something on YouTube's end. I'm seeing it with Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 & 8.1 as well as Mac OS 10.6, 10.7 10.8 & 10.9.

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