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YouTube VS Mozilla Firefox?

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Aug 23, 2008 7:33 p.m. gresco:

Anyone else having trouble viewing YouTube vids using Firefox as a browser?

When I first started using Firefox it was great! Faster, less proxy problems, more user friendly than I.E.6. With I.E. I kept having log in problems and Firefox solved the problem. But as time went on, I was occasionally getting the "This video is no longer available." message after YouTube loaded. I could reload the vid and often it would load and play.

Now I can NEVER get a vid to play, and if I open I.E. I can play ALL the vids that won't play in Firefox. Pretty frustrating. If I.E. didn't have log in problems with the GDP, I would go back to it as my default browser,even though there are things about Firefox I like better.

I went to the "Help" tab in YouTube and apparently a lot of users are experiencing similar problems and are angry at YouTube. YouTube suggests various fixes such as updating Flash Player, but nothing has worked for me.

Any ideas, anyone?
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Aug 23, 2008 7:44 p.m. DangerousMan:

I had problems alright. The vid would load (you could see the loading bar move) but the video would stay static. I've found that lately I'm not having any problems. However, I'm not really a big youtuber and the performance of FF3 is so good that I wouldn't worry too much about youtube. I'm sure that if the problems are due to FF3 that somebody will work it out. If it's due to youtube... I don't know but it does seem as though they work on the thing quite a bit.
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Aug 23, 2008 8:26 p.m. Mike Detlefsen:

That's a shame. I'm using FF3 with no problems (and I even have NoScript turned on, heh).

Are you using Firefox 3 or Firefox 2?
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Aug 23, 2008 8:43 p.m. gresco:

M.D.-I'm using FF3. I initially was using FF2, which I liked, and somehow got updated to FF3. I tried to go back to FF2 and it wouldn't function.

(Funny thing- as I'm typing this I get a pop up telling me that FF3.0.1 is available to download. I believe that's what I have! What's that all about?)

I wonder if there are any settings I can try to adjust?

I have noticed that when I use my laptop (doesn't have Firefox) that all of my other issues that happen with this PC seem to not occur. Hmmmm...

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