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Java was blocked due to the threat I have followed the update & other options to reenable it ie.manual updates reinstalls yet websites like YouTube still wont load up.Works fine in Chrome & IE!

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Java was blocked due to the threat I have followed the update & other options to reenable it ie.manual updates reinstalls yet websites like YouTube still wont load up.Works fine in Chrome & IE!

Java was blocked due to the threat I have followed the update & other options to reenable it ie.manual updates reinstalls yet websites like YouTube still wont load up.Works fine in Chrome & IE!

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Your plugins list in "more system details" shows Next Generation Java Plug-in 1.6.0_31 for Mozilla browsers so Java should not be blocked.

Could you post a link to a webpage where Java isn't working for you? YouTube uses Flash, not Java. Here is a list of Java test pages you can try, to confirm that Java is working, from http://kb.mozillazine.org/Java#Testing_Java

By the way, I see in your plugins list that you also have the VLC media player Web Plugin 2.0.0 so, it's possible that the VLC plugin is causing a conflict if YouTube or other videos don't work. See Fix common audio and video issues (you may need to disable the VLC Media Player plugin in the Add-ons -> Plugins list for some media to play).

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Your plugins list in "more system details" shows Next Generation Java Plug-in 1.6.0_31 for Mozilla browsers so Java should not be blocked.

Could you post a link to a webpage where Java isn't working for you? YouTube uses Flash, not Java. Here is a list of Java test pages you can try, to confirm that Java is working, from http://kb.mozillazine.org/Java#Testing_Java

By the way, I see in your plugins list that you also have the VLC media player Web Plugin 2.0.0 so, it's possible that the VLC plugin is causing a conflict if YouTube or other videos don't work. See Fix common audio and video issues (you may need to disable the VLC Media Player plugin in the Add-ons -> Plugins list for some media to play).

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My apologies, Flash is what I meant, yet was fixated on trying to fix Java (which as you pointed out was working fine). It was a combo of NoScript & Adblock that had caused something to go amiss.

Thank you for your time.

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Thanks for posting back that the problem was with Flash, not Java, and that it was caused by a combination of NoScript and Adblock extensions. Disabling interfering extensions or ad-blocking software was suggested in the Fix common audio and video issues article so I'm glad if that link was helpful for you.