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Cant watch youtube videos

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  • Last reply by DarkMoonFox

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i know i made a second post about this i messed up. so i cant watch any youtube videos on firefox but i can watch them on google chrome and internet explore. when i try to play a youtube video i cant cick play and the video is all black i post a screen and show you.

i know i made a second post about this i messed up. so i cant watch any youtube videos on firefox but i can watch them on google chrome and internet explore. when i try to play a youtube video i cant cick play and the video is all black i post a screen and show you.

Modified by gervanieh

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11.2 If the flash player if you restore Firefox works fine on 13.1. 11.3 Adobe Flash player and video does not turn on if I crash Win7.thanks.

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Dont need help because now i can watch videos kind of wired because i could it watch any videos and now i can put thanks anyways

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

Try to "disable the hardware acceleration" in the Flash Player as a quick test.

Flash "Display settings" window:

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search softpidea and downlode flash player offline pakage


only working flash pluging ok


reinstall flash player and firefox try

Modified by capee

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Guys i can watch youtube videos now its just that when i played a video the screen was black but after a while i can watch youtube videos on firefox now.

Modified by gervanieh

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i have the same exactly porblem and have screenshot of my own https://support.cdn.mozilla.net/media/uploads/images/2013-01-06-13-19-22-79838b.png

none of the replies did help me please, i really dont like the other browsers and the idea of launching one only to watch a video in youtube freaks me out.

please help me to fix this problem i've tryed E-V-R-E-Y-T-H-I-N-G - reinstall firefox - reinstall and update external patchs/add-ons - cleaning all temporary and chace files - disable firewall and antivirus to see if it sloves the problem - allowing Java & JavaScipt just all the options it demends

none of them helped me... im really desperate

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gervanieh if you can tell me what you did to fix the problem i'll be thankful

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ok guys i think i came up with the solution the problem is with acessing videos on youtube with the normal connection protocol www. or http:// for some reason acessing videos with insecure connection is not allowed by youtube's servers

while https:// which is secured protocol connection is allowed and allow running of videos.

to be honest i dont know why youtube/google not preforming auto-linking between each protocol in cases 1 of them is not working well like facebook's servers do for example.

i will try to contact them and ask them why.

anyway i would like to thank all of you