videos wont play on various web sites
Since my upgrade to FF 29, videos on certain web sites will not play. I have tried disabling any and all potential ad blocking, ghostery, and various plug ins to no avail. I say various because as long as I am visiting a video hosting site such as YouTube, there are no problems. Seems that any site that has a video that displays their content won 't play. I have also tried allowing 3rd party cookies and pop ups. I'm running out of ideas. Have you any ideas??
Chosen solution
Note that you have a few extensions that can block content or cookies or otherwise interfere with retrieving data
- If you have many extensions then first enable half of the extensions to test which half has the problem.
- Continue to divide the bad half that still has the issue until you find which one is causing it.
It is also possible that web pages use a <video> tag to use a HTML5 media player.
You can disable this media player by setting these prefs to false on the about:config page.
- media.windows-media-foundation.enabled
- media.directshow.enabled
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The issue could be caused by one of your add-ons. Restart Firefox with Add-ons Disabled to check if that's the case.
If the problem goes away in Safe Mode, you can either try to determine which add-on is to blame, or you can Reset Firefox and get rid of them all.
Chosen Solution
Note that you have a few extensions that can block content or cookies or otherwise interfere with retrieving data
- If you have many extensions then first enable half of the extensions to test which half has the problem.
- Continue to divide the bad half that still has the issue until you find which one is causing it.
It is also possible that web pages use a <video> tag to use a HTML5 media player.
You can disable this media player by setting these prefs to false on the about:config page.
- media.windows-media-foundation.enabled
- media.directshow.enabled
The issue is resolved. The problem is 1 of 4 add ons that block Google tracking. That being the case, I do not need to see any video that Google needs to track.
Thank you so much everyone. Let's all keep Google from meddling. It's no one's business what I look at or what sites I visit. And, I'm not in the 18 to 34 yo age group and therefore am not a "consumer" that needs ads.
edit: removed attached picture (philipp)
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