Firefox woes - Follow up

[mz]

On Thursday 25 August 2011 08:28:11 you wrote:
> I'm having trouble viewing embedded flash videos in Firefox 6.0 and could
> use some advice.
>
> I've got a dozen extensions for FF, including NoScript 2.1.2.7rc2,
> Flashblock 1.5.15.1, Adblock Plus 1.3.9, Ghostery 2.5.3, and others. I'm
> also using Shockwave Flash 10.3 as the plugin to view flash videos.
>
> After allowing the appropriate java scripts and clicking the Flashblock
> play, everything seemed to come up fine to play the video. When the play
> button for the video is clicked, it changes to the pause button, but the
> video does not download. Reloading the page without the browser cache
> makes no difference. However if the "Pop Up Player" button is clicked, a
> second FF window is opened, and everything works fine.
>
> I don't think it should matter, but I'm using openSUSE 11.3 w/ KDE 4.4.4
>
> Any suggestions about what might be preventing the video from playing in
> the original page or what to look at?
>
> TIA,
> Mark Z.

Something else is going on rather than problems with Firefox v6 in
attempting to play the embedded video. Unfortunately, I don't know what
it is. The reason I don't think it's FF is that I downgraded to FF
v3.6.20, tried Chrome, and then Opera, and the problem remained. It must
be something I've done or haven't done that's preventing the video from
playing.

At least this prodded me to try a couple different browsers. Neither
Chrome nor Opera impressed me. Both are missing at least one of the
add-ons I rely on and are missing options or have clumsy methods for
implementing options I'm used to, so I went back to FF v6.

Mark Z.