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Youtube videos on other sites not loading

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I can't play Youtube videos imbedded on other websites. When I click to play one, the video never loads. If I click the "Watch on Youtube" button on the video's control bar and open Youtube's site, the video then loads and plays normally.

I can't play Youtube videos imbedded on other websites. When I click to play one, the video never loads. If I click the "Watch on Youtube" button on the video's control bar and open Youtube's site, the video then loads and plays normally.

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Yeah, it's Adblock Plus for me too, even if it's not blocking anything on the page. If I disable it for the page in question, the video loads. Adjusting my Adblock filter preferences seems to have fixed it.

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I have that problem as well. Watching on YouTube works, so that is acceptable as a workaround. That problem does not occur with Opera or Safari.

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Make sure that you aren't blocking cookies.

Reload web page(s) and bypass the cache to refresh possibly outdated or corrupted files.

  • Press and hold Shift and left-click the Reload button.
  • Press "Ctrl + F5" or press "Ctrl + Shift + R" (Windows,Linux)
  • Press "Command + Shift + R" (MAC)

Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance).

  • Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe mode start window or otherwise make changes.
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I doubt that it is a cookie issue. I allow cookies for the forum where I usually see the embedded videos from YouTube, but not for YouTube. That works fine with Opera, not with Firefox, and I use the same cookie settings for the same sites with both.

It is Adblock Plus causing the problem. If I disable it on the page where the embedded video is, the video plays. I would rather use a workaround than disable Adblock Plus.

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Yeah, it's Adblock Plus for me too, even if it's not blocking anything on the page. If I disable it for the page in question, the video loads. Adjusting my Adblock filter preferences seems to have fixed it.

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What did you change? I presume there was some URL that it normally blocks that has to be unblocked?

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Tools>Add-ons>Adblock Plus, then the Filter Preferences button. From there, the Custom Filters tab, and in the Ad Blocking Rules category I had youtube.com/crossdomain.xml entries. After unselecting those and saving, the problem seems to have been resolved.

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Got it. Thanks, it works.

If you have the Adblock Plus toolbar button on the main toolbar or on the addon bar, you do not have to open the add-ons window to change the filter preferences.  All you need to do is right-click the button and choose Filter Preferences.
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I'm having this problem too, but its not adblock... I disabled it, but still doesn't work.