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The Help Desk => Computer Related Discussions & Questions => Topic started by: jinxmchue on April 11, 2010, 12:05:05 AM

Title: YouTube suddenly doesn't work in Firefox or Chrome
Post by: jinxmchue on April 11, 2010, 12:05:05 AM: But it still works in IE. Anyone have any ideas what could cause this?
Title: Re: YouTube suddenly doesn't work in Firefox or Chrome
Post by: Rick on April 11, 2010, 12:26:56 AM: I usually have to turn off the firewall to get it to work.
Title: Re: YouTube suddenly doesn't work in Firefox or Chrome
Post by: Thor on April 11, 2010, 10:30:11 AM: YT works fine for me in Firefox. :clueless: I don't have Windows Firewall turned on. I guess my question would be; "What got changed to make it stop working?"
Title: Re: YouTube suddenly doesn't work in Firefox or Chrome
Post by: Lord Undies on April 11, 2010, 10:36:07 AM: I keep Firefox and Opera open. I know what works best with what browser. For instance, YouTube works best with Opera. Facebook works best with Firefox. Don't know why. It just does.
Title: Re: YouTube suddenly doesn't work in Firefox or Chrome
Post by: The Village Idiot on April 11, 2010, 10:47:17 AM: I usually stick with IE but I also have Chrome, Opera and Firefox as backups.
Title: Re: YouTube suddenly doesn't work in Firefox or Chrome
Post by: NHSparky on April 11, 2010, 10:55:48 AM: Working fine for me.
Title: Re: YouTube suddenly doesn't work in Firefox or Chrome
Post by: Wayne on April 11, 2010, 10:57:39 AM: Quote from: jinxmchue on April 11, 2010, 12:05:05 AM
But it still works in IE. Anyone have any ideas what could cause this?

They have been doing some upgrades ... or down..
Title: Re: YouTube suddenly doesn't work in Firefox or Chrome
Post by: jinxmchue on April 11, 2010, 11:08:41 AM: Quote from: Thor on April 11, 2010, 10:30:11 AM
YT works fine for me in Firefox. :clueless: I don't have Windows Firewall turned on. I guess my question would be; "What got changed to make it stop working?"

A firewall would block it across the board, wouldn't it? I can't think of what would've changed on my computer that would affect Firefox and Chrome, but not IE.
Title: Re: YouTube suddenly doesn't work in Firefox or Chrome
Post by: jinxmchue on April 11, 2010, 07:19:16 PM: Quote from: Wayne on April 11, 2010, 10:57:39 AM
They have been doing some upgrades ... or down..

Could that be affecting Firefox and Chrome but not IE?
Title: Re: YouTube suddenly doesn't work in Firefox or Chrome
Post by: jinxmchue on April 11, 2010, 10:50:32 PM: It seems to be any video website. Just tried to watch this: http://www.todaysbigthing.com/2010/04/09 , but couldn't in Firefox.
Title: Re: YouTube suddenly doesn't work in Firefox or Chrome
Post by: Thor on April 12, 2010, 09:09:06 AM: I use Firefox almost exclusively on my ancient computers. Everything works fine for me. You might want to open Firefox, goto the tools tab and see if you have any errors in the error console. If so, then let us know of goto the Firefox forum and see if there are any resolutions. My pc parameters are: 1.4 GHz Athlon, 3 GB RAM, 512 MB Geforce 6200 PCI video card. Also, what add-ons do you have added into Firefox, if any ?? Ad blockers would potentially prevent the videos from playing/ showing.
Title: Re: YouTube suddenly doesn't work in Firefox or Chrome
Post by: Chris on April 12, 2010, 09:30:33 AM: Have you updated the Flash plug-in for Firefox?
Title: Re: YouTube suddenly doesn't work in Firefox or Chrome
Post by: jinxmchue on April 12, 2010, 02:05:14 PM: Quote from: Chris on April 12, 2010, 09:30:33 AM
Have you updated the Flash plug-in for Firefox?

Funny you should mention this. The problem suddenly started to freeze up my browser and I got a warning message that the video was causing the flash player to run slowly. The weird thing is that it said the player was ancient version 6. I checked and sure enough it was. I don't know why. I have since installed version 10 and everything appears to work now.
Title: Re: YouTube suddenly doesn't work in Firefox or Chrome
Post by: Chris on April 12, 2010, 02:14:34 PM: The computers at work do not have Flash installed on them. There are some video sites that will not work as a result. Your problem looked similar.