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Suddenly videos are not showing up.

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The other day I was having some videos that should have come up in Windows Media Player start coming up in QuickTime. I changed some settings, and they ended up working. HOWEVER, now I find that some sites that have embedded video don't show the video - there is a blank space where the video would usually be (and where the video IS when I open the site in Chrome). I'm afraid that I screwed something up and have tried re-setting things back to QuickTime, but nothing I've tried has fixed this. An example of a site where this is happening is here: http://www.entrepreneuressacademy.com/ I'd left that open in a tab "to watch later", but when I got around to it (I hadn't realized that it was just a 30-second clip), the video wasn't there in FireFox. I've tried re-setting options, closing and re-starting FireFox, etc., but this (and other) embedded videos are suddenly just not there (again, in FireFox, they're fine in Chrome, etc.). Also - embedded YouTube videos seem to work just fine ... it's other sorts of embedded videos (which USED to show up in FireFox) are now just blank spaces.

The other day I was having some videos that should have come up in Windows Media Player start coming up in QuickTime. I changed some settings, and they ended up working. HOWEVER, now I find that some sites that have embedded video don't show the video - there is a blank space where the video would usually be (and where the video IS when I open the site in Chrome). I'm afraid that I screwed something up and have tried re-setting things back to QuickTime, but nothing I've tried has fixed this. An example of a site where this is happening is here: http://www.entrepreneuressacademy.com/ I'd left that open in a tab "to watch later", but when I got around to it (I hadn't realized that it was just a 30-second clip), the video wasn't there in FireFox. I've tried re-setting options, closing and re-starting FireFox, etc., but this (and other) embedded videos are suddenly just not there (again, in FireFox, they're fine in Chrome, etc.). Also - embedded YouTube videos seem to work just fine ... it's other sorts of embedded videos (which USED to show up in FireFox) are now just blank spaces.

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You're welcome.

Adobe and Mozilla are both working on a way to get this fixed.

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Thanks! The videos are back ... although I'm going to miss being able to record with RealPlayer! I hope that FireFox/Adobe/Real are going to work out the comparability issues, though ... how would I know that had happened?

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You're welcome.

Adobe and Mozilla are both working on a way to get this fixed.

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there are plenty of alternative addons that can download videos & work without an issue: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/search/?q=save+video

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So why are they working in all other browsers but Firefox?

If it's an Adobe problem, wouldn't the same thing be happening

in other browsers?