Firefox woes - Follow up

[Dazed_75]

Now that I re-read your original post, this sounds like the trouble I have
long had with embedded videos with the vimeo label on them,  I gave up on
them a long time ago.  Next time I see one, I'll look for that "Pop Up
Player" button you mentioned though it may be from an add-on you are using
that I do not.

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 7:28 AM, mz <mz at infomagic.net> wrote:

> 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.
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