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[SOLVED] Youtube stopped working in Firefox
Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 9:12 am
by DynamicMan
This seems like a bit of an odd problem to me.
Since a couple of days, every time I use FIrefox to visit Youtube I get only a black rectangle where the flash video player should be. Other video sites seems to be working fine (the ones I tried so far at least), and I can view Youtube in Chromium.
The strangest part is that I actually found a way to view youtube videos in said firefox browser - it seems to work fine if I enable "private browsing"...
So, dear community, what's up with that?
Re: Youtube stopped working in Firefox
Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2011 8:52 am
by lmintnewb
Dunno could suggest a bunch of stuff. But think easiest would be to maybe backup your bookmarks. Uninstall/reinstall or mark for reinstall in synaptic ? See if that helps any. Sounds like a strange deal. Though nobody knows your comp, what you've done ( or haven't done ... whatever ) with it like you would. Maybe a plugin ... maybe a who knows what.
(edit) Might try telling people what version of FF and which Mint release is involved in this mystery too. Can't hurt ...
Re: Youtube stopped working in Firefox
Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2011 12:16 pm
by secipolla
If it works in private browsing it may be a cookie issue. Simply clear your cookies and cache and try again.
-edit- deleting the contents of ~/.macromedia too will remove the flash cookies as well.
Re: Youtube stopped working in Firefox
Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2011 9:47 pm
by MrPink
I have a very similar problem.
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 36&start=0
I have tried reinstalling mint-flashplugin-x64 and switching back and forth between that and flashplugin-nonfree with no luck.
[SOLVED] Re: Youtube stopped working in Firefox
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 5:42 am
by DynamicMan
Sorry about not posting software specifics in my first post, I use LMDE with all updates (level 1 through 5) installed via MintUpdate, which means I currently use Firefox 3.6.13.
Before creating this thread I had tried uninstalling mint-flashplugin and installing flashplugin-nonfree instead, as well as marking firefox for reinstall in synaptic, both without success. However, I tried lmintnewb's suggestion of uninstalling firefox completely and then installing it again, and that worked.
I will try secipolla's idea if it happens again. It seems a bit simpler and less intrusive, assuming it works.
Thanks for your help everybody!