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Firefox 3.6.3 wont play embedded youtube videos. It comes up with "an error occured please try again later. this happens all the time

AnonymousUser
AnonymousUser
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Firefox 3.6.3 wont play embedded youtube videos. It comes up with "an error occurred please try again later. this happens all the time. If you click to go to youtube the clip plays.

This happened

Every time Firefox opened

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by AnonymousUser

Well, here is my reply to my own post.

After reading some of the messages posted here about possible solutions, I tried deleting all YouTube cookies (tools > options > privacy > show cookies > youtube.com). Then tested on a site with embedded video that would not play previously and on YouTube site directly--both worked!

The poster with the cookies suggestion also suggested changes to "exceptions" but this was not necessary at least for me.

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I was having the same issue up until I found a solution myself a few minutes ago. If you have "Accept Third Party Cookies" un-checked it will not allow the embedded "Third party" youtube videos to load. You can either Check the box to allow third party cookies or add an exception to allow youtube.com WITHOUT the www. You just want it to be Youtube.Com.

To do so just go to Tools: Options: Privacy: Exceptions: Type in Youtube.com and click Allow. Then click Close and OK. It should start working immediately.

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This below was my solution to the error message on YouTube videos while using the Firefox browser, "An error occurred. Please try again later." I have Windows Vista 64-bit operating system. I hope this helps below.

If RealPlayer is installed, try this first Turn off Web Download & Recording in RealPlayer 

   Launch RealPlayer
   Click the RealPlayer icon in the upper left corner of the window and choose Preferences.
   Choose Download & Recording from the left hand panel
   Uncheck "Enable Web Download & Recording for these installed browsers"
   Click OK and close RealPlayer
   Restart Firefox

Note: This will remove the RealPlayer Browser Record extension from the Firefox Add-ons Manager.

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  • Mozilla ActiveX control and plugin module
  • Office Plugin for Netscape Navigator
  • The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in Web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.
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  • DRM Store Netscape Plugin
  • DRM Netscape Network Object

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  • User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3

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Alison321
Alison321 0 solutions 2 answers
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goducks, you're welcome. I'm always glad to help that was why I posted my solution up for others that are in the same or similar situation as I was.

trinimist
trinimist 0 solutions 1 answers
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worked perfectly and quickly thanks a lot

sergio290
sergio290 0 solutions 1 answers
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I cant see videos on youtube, says there was an error to try later. I use 62 bit windowns seven. help me please .. I tried several things and nothing happened.

jscher2000
jscher2000
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Hi sergio290, please see this support article about incompatibility issues with the latest Flash updates: Flash 11.3 doesn't load video in Firefox.

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