Fix Flash Video Flickering or Stuttering in Firefox

YouTube and other flash based videos stutter/flicker in Firefox, and this is a major annoyance (usually Firefox has none) with Firefox. This does not happen with other browsers, so why is Firefox causing this? well Its because of its amazing snapshot system which takes a snapshot of your browsing every 10 seconds, this is very nice but this is the main cause of the flickering effect. So how do you get rid of it? Well there is a simple and easy fix for this issue.

1. Open Firefox options with about:config (type this in address bar and press enter without quotes).
2. In the configuration settings in the filter box type: browser.sessionstore.interval
3. You will find this setting to be with the default value of 10000 (this is in milliseconds which is 10 sec)
4. Change the value to a higher state anything more than 60000 is good but we recommend that you set it to 120000 which is 2 min or 120 seconds.
5. Restart Firefox and load a flash video and now the flickering or stuttering has gone.

Backup your flash drives with USB Image Tool

USB Image Tool is a utility for creating an exact image of pretty much anything you plug into your USB port. This isn’t the same thing as copying and pasting all the files on a flash drive to a new directory or zip file. Instead, every chunk of data on your flash drive is saved in a single file that you can then burn to a disc, upload to an offsite storage location, or just save on your hard drive.
If you keep work documents, portable applications, or other important data on a flash drive, it’s a good idea to back it up occasionally. USB Image Tool makes the process about as simple as can be. You plug in a drive, hit backup, and choose a location to store the image. You can also select a compressed file format if you want to save a little bit of space, but it takes longer to create a compressed image.

[source gHacks]