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YouTube and Multiple Monitors

     - Monday, July 23, 2007

YouTube with multiple monitors or just dual monitors used to be a lot of fun. Because YouTube would launch the full-screen mode in a separate window, you could drag that window to another monitor, and then while watching the video on that screen, you could either cue up other video's on another monitor or just do anything else on the system that you wanted.

However, in early 2007 YouTube started to take advantage of Adobe Flash Player's new feature of true window-less full screen, instead of launching in another browser window. Sounds great, but if you try to do anything else with the computer on another monitor, you'll immediately exist full-screen mode.

This has been frustrating me for weeks, but I've finally found a solution. Sort of. There's no way to turn this feature off in Adobe Flash Player 9, but you can uninstall it, and re-install Flash Player 8. Works like a charm, and is really easy.

Here's a link to the Flash Player 8 download.

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