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Firefox vers 91.10esr(64bit):-"cannot load M3U8:levelLoadTimeOut"

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Hi!, recently i have been having this browsing problem whenever I open the news website at https://www.cgtn.com/channel/documentary. The site wont load and error is shown- "cannot load M3U8:levelLoadTimeOut". Have tried numerous times but failed to load. However other web sites have no problem and prior to this I am able to surf at all times. What must I do to get back the browsing? Any help is appreciated. Thanks

Hi!, recently i have been having this browsing problem whenever I open the news website at https://www.cgtn.com/channel/documentary. The site wont load and error is shown- "cannot load M3U8:levelLoadTimeOut". Have tried numerous times but failed to load. However other web sites have no problem and prior to this I am able to surf at all times. What must I do to get back the browsing? Any help is appreciated. Thanks

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Sorry for the omission my operating system is Debian Bullseye 11. -linux Thanks

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Try downloading Firefox from Mozilla, run it from the folder and see if you have the same issue. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#product-desktop-release

Modified by jonzn4SUSE

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It works for me. see screenshot ---> https://paste.opensuse.org/8593417

Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20220624 KDE Plasma Version: 5.25.1 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.95.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.18.4-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i7-4810MQ CPU @ 2.80GHz Memory: 31.0 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 4600 Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard Product Name: HP ZBook 17 G2 System Version: A3009DD10303

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Can you show us what you're getting?

Modified by jonzn4SUSE

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Make sure you have the latest FFmpeg and libavcodec packages installed.

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Thanks for helping out. sorry for the delay to reply -immediately I tried to reply directly but the page is always unresponsive. Unfortunately the problem still persists. I have uninstall and reinstalled Firefox with the latest version 102.0 Also I have tried with Brave browser- this browser too have the same problem. Now I am confuse and do not know what to do. (Note: I am a novice beginner to Linux -having moved from Windows and have limited knowledge on Linux) Thanks for helping.

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Did you download Firefox from Mozilla? Once you extract, look for firefox.bin to run. see screenshot

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Actually, it is not firefox.bin, but the firefox file that you need to start.

Do you get messages and warnings if you start Firefox via a terminal window ?