FF freezes my computer while watching videos. What do I do?

Hello.
Yes, for some time now, Firefox keeps the gel my computer while watching videos on YouTube or streams on Twitch.
It started a few weeks back & I couldn't solve the problem, I changed my Chrome. But I don't like it, so yesterday, I decided to go back to my fav browser: Firefox.

But my problem is: when I watch a video, my browser always keeps freezing my entire MacBook. It starts with the video just stop but continues to go audio for about 10 to 20 seconds. Then I can't move the cursor and finally the noise dies and nothing does not react anymore. I can not even open the activity monitor, or do something else. So the only possibility for me to come back and do stuff is hard reset my laptop and start again.
This just happened to me twice in the two last & 4 or 5 times in the last 24 hours... I'd really appreciate if someone could point me to a solution.

Oh and I'm on OS X 10.10.2 using Firefox 36.0.1 (but this happened also on before 35.x). Hardware acceleration is disabled & flash is on its last version. Cache was emptied several times as well.

Accidents or other problems with some multimedia content in Firefox (for example, videos from YouTube and Flash animations or games) can often be solved by doing as in these Knowledge Base articles:

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