Why have video previews stopped playing?
Some videos play a small portion of said video, if you hold the cursor over the video. This stopped working. Now it just flashes a preview too fast to see what is on the video. It had been working with Firefox in December.
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Ahh. You are talking about https://www.bing.com/videos I had the same problem. For a long time, no previews would play. It works now, but I don't know why. I tried doing this many times;
Many site issues can be caused by corrupt cookies or cache.
- Clear the Cache and
- Remove Cookies
Warning ! ! This will log you out of sites you're logged in to.
Type about:preferences<Enter> in the address bar.
- Cookies; Select Privacy. Under History, select Firefox will Use Custom Settings. Press the button on the right side called Show Cookies. Use the search bar to look for the site. Note; There may be more than one entry. Remove All of them.
- Cache; Select Advanced > Network. Across from Cached Web Content, Press Clear Now.
If there is still a problem, Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web link} A small dialog should appear. Click Start In Safe Mode (not Refresh). While you are in safe mode;
Type about:preferences#advanced<Enter> in the address bar.
Under Advanced, Select General. Look for and turn off Use Hardware Acceleration.
Poke around safe websites. Are there any problems?
Then restart.
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Where does this happen? What type of player? HTML5, Flash . . . . .
When I browse videos using Bing or Firefox.
Bing is a website/search engine. Firefox is a web browser.
Last year both Bing and Firefox would play previews, when I placed the cursor over a video. They play a video if I left click the mouse. If there is no preview for the video, It still says "no video preview"'.
Please post some web addresses where you have the problem.
Okay, bring up Bing. In the search box key - "japanese game shows", without the double quotation marks. Click on the "video option on the top line of the home page.This should bring up a screen of images of videos that were found. Place the cursor over the video image, If no preview is available, you should get a message saying - No preview available. Otherwise you shoul get a short video preview of the video's content. I no longer get that short preview of what the content of the video is like. I just get a very short image flash of the video content. I am not sure how else I can explain this problem.
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Ahh. You are talking about https://www.bing.com/videos I had the same problem. For a long time, no previews would play. It works now, but I don't know why. I tried doing this many times;
Many site issues can be caused by corrupt cookies or cache.
- Clear the Cache and
- Remove Cookies
Warning ! ! This will log you out of sites you're logged in to.
Type about:preferences<Enter> in the address bar.
- Cookies; Select Privacy. Under History, select Firefox will Use Custom Settings. Press the button on the right side called Show Cookies. Use the search bar to look for the site. Note; There may be more than one entry. Remove All of them.
- Cache; Select Advanced > Network. Across from Cached Web Content, Press Clear Now.
If there is still a problem, Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web link} A small dialog should appear. Click Start In Safe Mode (not Refresh). While you are in safe mode;
Type about:preferences#advanced<Enter> in the address bar.
Under Advanced, Select General. Look for and turn off Use Hardware Acceleration.
Poke around safe websites. Are there any problems?
Then restart.