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Version 3.6.8 can't load videos?

AnonymousUser
AnonymousUser
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I just upgraded to Firefox 3.6.8 and now every time I try to watch a video on a site like youtube the screen is black and it says 'an error occurred, please try again later.' But when I tried with a different browser called Galeon it played. If I clear the cache and then refresh the page it will play using Firefox, but isn't there a way to fix this? If it's a bug, when will a patch be out? Side Note: I use Ubuntu Linux, if that makes a big difference.

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Every time Firefox opened

== I upgraded to 3.6.8 today

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Neither of those solutions works for me. Anywhere that uses Flash, I get a message, "The Adobe Flash plugin has crashed."

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so should I upgrade to Firefox 4 or install the IE Tab Plus add-on? today's new development is that both video and audio play in full-screen mode but not in a page. It's driving me nuts.

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  • -Shockwave Flash 10.1 r999. Gnash 0.8.6, the GNU SWF Player. Copyright (C) 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Gnash comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. You may redistribute copies of Gnash under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about Gnash, see http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash. Compatible Shockwave Flash 10.1 r999.
  • Shockwave Flash 10.1 r53
  • Gecko Media Player 0.9.8Video Player Plug-in for QuickTime, RealPlayer and Windows Media Player streams using MPlayer
  • The Totem 2.28.2 plugin handles video and audio streams.
  • DivX Web Player version 1.4.0.233
  • The IcedTea NPR Web Browser Plugin (using IcedTea6 1.8 (6b18-1.8-4ubuntu3~9.10.2)) executes Java applets.

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  • User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100723 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.6.8

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AnonymousUser
AnonymousUser
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Question owner

I reloaded flash and other codecs but same problem, no streaming video. Using latest Ubuntu 9.10

AnonymousUser
AnonymousUser
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Question owner

If you uninstall the gnash plugin you will be able to view videos. There is a conflict between Adobe flash player plugin and gnash plugin.

AnonymousUser
AnonymousUser
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Question owner

Solved! 

I disabled the "Ubuntu Firefox Modification 0.9rc2"  under tools,

add- ons, Extensions, in Firefox.

All streaming videos now work like they did before the last Firefox upgrade.

I also found additional "bugs" listed with 0.9rc2 at Ubuntu causing other problems.

Thanks for your reply John but I don't use the gnash plug-in.

Wayne

AnonymousUser
AnonymousUser
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Neither of those solutions works for me. Anywhere that uses Flash, I get a message, "The Adobe Flash plugin has crashed."

gtranimal
gtranimal 0 solutions 1 answers
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Where do I locate this file? I don't see it in add-on's or in extension under the Mozilla folder. I can't watch any videos, no matter where or what player it uses since the upgrade

pwitkin
pwitkin 0 solutions 3 answers
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I now get no audio, no video, just a blank box. I've tried disabling plug-ins. That only made matters worse, since before I could get audio. I'll be switching permanently to safari if this continues. Thanks.

JakDaxter3
JakDaxter3 0 solutions 12 answers
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Mozilla is working to correct this problem. The latest version of Firefox, Firefox 4, (still not available to the general public), has resolved this issue. The problem was that most videos are using HTML5, which currently isn't a supported format recognized by Firefox 3.6.8. You may want to install the Mozilla's add-on, " Coral IE Tab" (now called, "IE Tab Plus") This add-on allows Firefox to use the rendering engine of Internet Explorer through Firefox's Browser. You can get it here: [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fire.../10909/]

pwitkin
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so should I upgrade to Firefox 4 or install the IE Tab Plus add-on? today's new development is that both video and audio play in full-screen mode but not in a page. It's driving me nuts.

pwitkin
pwitkin 0 solutions 3 answers
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IE Tab Plus is no good for me; I'm on a Mac

cor-el
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See also http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plugin-container_and_out-of-process_plugins

emmpeabee
emmpeabee 0 solutions 4 answers
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Thanks Installed IE tab plus. A quick check says at least my BBC news videos run again and so does BBC iPlayer. What a clunky work around.. hope a real fix arrives soon. M

emmpeabee
emmpeabee 0 solutions 4 answers
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What I have found is that the npwf32.DLL only exists in the following places :- c:\program files\common files\adobe air\versions\1.0\resources\ c:\windows\sysem32\macromedia\flash\ not in any Mozilla directory. (Vista Home Basic). M

emmpeabee
emmpeabee 0 solutions 4 answers
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With the speed of the aged, I finally got round to saying that when I updated to 3.6.10 the problem went away. Mike

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FarmerBob
FarmerBob 0 solutions 1 answers
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This is no where near fixed in FF4b1-5 that I have used. Matter of fact Flash in Firefox as a whole just plain sucks. FF has gotten worse in many ways as the revs go up. What is going on?

bp0
bp0 0 solutions 3 answers
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It's not fixed in FF4b8pre on ubuntu 10.10 either, as far as I can tell. I think it has something to do with SWFObject - I've put a bit more detail on the issue at https://support.mozilla.com/ast/questions/759377#answer-112203