Win 10 pro, version 1607, os build 14393.321
Firefox 49.0.1
For the past few days some videos will not play in firefox, not on my laptop, my kindle fire and my galaxy 3 p… (funda kabanzi)
Win 10 pro, version 1607, os build 14393.321
Firefox 49.0.1
For the past few days some videos will not play in firefox, not on my laptop, my kindle fire and my galaxy 3 phone, and yet the videos work on any other browser (Chrome, Pale Moon, Edge) I have on my devices. It either says, "if playback doesn't begin shortly, try restarting your device" or the swirling circle just keeps on swirling to a black background.
I fix computers for a living and have done all of the standards: restarted my laptop, cleared cache/cookies, tested in safe mode, un/re-installed firefox, my drivers are the way they are supposed to be, ensured my plugins are all active and I had the latest versions of flash, java, and real player.
Then I went up a notch: installed a VLC add-on, disabled hardware acceleration and restarted ff, made sure my firewall and antivirus programs trust plugin-container.exe, and followed the instructions from here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/fix-video-audio-problems-firefox-windows,
What gives? And why doesn't FireFox have a fix for this miserable problem?
SOLVED (for me):
Installing YouTube Flash Player helped, but only for the youtube video part:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/youtube-flash-player/?src=ss
Going to about:config, and changing media.autoplay.enabled from false to true, then restarting FF, fixed the remainder of the video problem.