From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE573138C9D for ; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 20:49:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 32479E0931; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 20:49:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail0131.smtp25.com (mail0131.smtp25.com [75.126.84.131]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2885DE0924 for ; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 20:49:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.9/8.14.8) with ESMTP id t3SKnVFf031402 for ; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 16:49:31 -0400 From: covici@ccs.covici.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Half error message on attempting to access You Tube from Firefox In-reply-to: <20150428154906.GA27450@waltdnes.org> References: <20150426144959.GA5331@acm.fritz.box> <20150428154906.GA27450@waltdnes.org> Comments: In-reply-to "Walter Dnes" message dated "Tue, 28 Apr 2015 11:49:06 -0400." X-Mailer: MH-E 8.5; nmh 1.6; GNU Emacs 23.4.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <31400.1430254171.1@ccs.covici.com> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 16:49:31 -0400 Message-ID: <31401.1430254171@ccs.covici.com> X-SpamH-OriginatingIP: 70.109.53.110 X-SpamH-Filter: d-out-001.smtp25.com-t3SKnVLw031398 X-Archives-Salt: 03967bbe-18ed-46c2-b89f-9fe68e9ce260 X-Archives-Hash: a66d3d87e2bc2b56fc20c89c5ab4db0d Walter Dnes wrote: > On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 01:24:59AM +0100, Stroller wrote > > > Personally, I would probably also try a later version of Firefox. > > > > I appreciate that 31.x is the latest stable version, but I doubt newer > > versions are actually unstable in any way, and if I google "youtube > > html5 firefox" I find that "Google will enforce the use of HTML5 > > video on YouTube for all Firefox users who use Firefox 33 or newer", > > "FYI: Firefox 35 uses the HTML5 video player in Youtube by default" > > and "Firefox 37 Released With Native HTML5 YouTube Playback" > > I've picked up a few tricks that seem to work some of the time. This > is with Seamonkey, but should work with standard Firefox... > > 1) Set up a separate profile for Youtube, and disable the Flash plugin > only for that profile (never thought I'd say that). > > 2) If a video won't play, remove "&hd=1" at the end of the URL. That > sometimes helps. > > 3) Warning... bleeding edge & crash-prone. In about:config toggle > media.mediasource.enabled to "true". I think this is the default. Also, I have had several occasions where the profile somehow got corrupted and the video would not play, I had to create a new profile and then it worked. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici@ccs.covici.com