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Youtube plays fine but not Facebook or other site videos, it says I am missing a plugin?

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Brandonacker
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When I use Youtube the videos play fine but on Facebook and some other sights the videos will not play. I just get a message that says a plugin is missing. Everything works fine on IE. I just downloaded Mozilla last night.

When I use Youtube the videos play fine but on Facebook and some other sights the videos will not play. I just get a message that says a plugin is missing. Everything works fine on IE. I just downloaded Mozilla last night.

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hi Brandonacker, you probably need to install the adobe flash player plugin for those sites to show video content, which you can download from https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html (use the windows exe-installer for plugin based browsers)

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philipp
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hi Brandonacker, you probably need to install the adobe flash player plugin for those sites to show video content, which you can download from https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html (use the windows exe-installer for plugin based browsers)

Brandonacker
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Genius, thanks philipp!

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Brandonacker said

When I use Youtube the videos play fine but on Facebook and some other sights the videos will not play. I just get a message that says a plugin is missing. Everything works fine on IE. I just downloaded Mozilla last night.

After trying every solution on this site, I tried opening FF in compatibility mode. Windows decided that, despite the fact I have Windows 7, I needed to open FF in XP mode. Now Facebook plays viseos fine. I hope the next update fixes this because it is now giving mean warnings when I try tofollow links in e-mail, but I can live with that.