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Cliff

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Nov 20, 2009, 5:57:46 AM11/20/09
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George dubbyas link to the Dylan Santa video has thrown up a problem.
I'm running the latest Firefox 3.6 beta 3, and it kept crashing trying
to play the macromedia flash files on Youtube.
So i've just tried with IE and Google chrome, and though hey were slow
to load, they did both work. Anyone else having trouble with Firefox /
Youtube ??

Cliff.

Misifus

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Nov 20, 2009, 9:13:30 AM11/20/09
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The video worked fine for me on Firefox 3.5.5/Mac. Perhaps it would
help to download the newest Flash player. It seems to me I've had to do
that from time to time.

-Raf

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Cliff

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Nov 20, 2009, 9:30:49 AM11/20/09
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On Nov 20, 2:13 pm, Misifus <rafseib...@att.net> wrote:
> Cliff wrote:
> > George dubbyas link to the Dylan Santa video has thrown up a problem.
> > I'm running the latest Firefox 3.6 beta 3, and it kept crashing trying
> > to play the macromedia flash files on Youtube.
> > So i've just tried with IE and Google chrome, and though hey were slow
> > to load, they did both work. Anyone else having trouble with Firefox /
> > Youtube ??
>
> > Cliff.
>
> The video worked fine for me on Firefox 3.5.5/Mac.  Perhaps it would
> help to download the newest Flash player.  It seems to me I've had to do
> that from time to time.
>
>         -Raf
>
yep...tried that Raf,....installed the latest Flash Gordon...but still
get the " Firefox encountered a problem and must close" message.
Strange.

c.

Bill Chandler

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Nov 20, 2009, 10:10:33 AM11/20/09
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On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:30:49 -0800 (PST), Cliff
<clif...@ntlworld.com> brewed up the following, and served it to the
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I've run into some problems with Firefox betas like that. I don't
think they always have everything working in these betas...I generally
avoid the upgrade until its out of beta and all the fiddly bits are
working together, but that's just me. I'm running 3.5.5 with Win7/64,
no problems on the youtoobz. Good luck.
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Cliff

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Nov 20, 2009, 12:42:19 PM11/20/09
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> I've run into some problems with Firefox betas like that.  I don't
> think they always have everything working in these betas...I generally
> avoid the upgrade until its out of beta and all the fiddly bits are
> working together, but that's just me.  I'm running 3.5.5 with Win7/64,
> no problems on the youtoobz.  Good luck.


you're making me look stupid now Bill, i guess that's not hard....

here Bill...have a laugh....sorry if you've seen it before ( worth
seeing again if you have ) :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U33Xg91HAlo

When I say I love you you say you beta
You beta you beta you bet
When I say I need you you say you beta
You beta you beta you bet

c.

Bill Chandler

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Nov 20, 2009, 1:08:05 PM11/20/09
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On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:42:19 -0800 (PST), Cliff

<clif...@ntlworld.com> brewed up the following, and served it to the
group:

>

A classic...heard the joke a million times, but never saw the video.
Played fine here. Those Betas can be great, but I've never had much
luck with Firefox's betas--they're never really ready for prime time
(which is, of course, why they're betas). I've been on Agent's beta
testing team for several years now; their betas are usually very
well-worked-over before they even hit beta stage. Always fun testing
them out.

But that's just me...
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Mike Brown

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Nov 20, 2009, 5:59:00 PM11/20/09
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Misifus wrote:

> Cliff wrote:
>
>> George dubbyas link to the Dylan Santa video has thrown up a problem.
>> I'm running the latest Firefox 3.6 beta 3, and it kept crashing trying
>> to play the macromedia flash files on Youtube.
>> So i've just tried with IE and Google chrome, and though hey were slow
>> to load, they did both work. Anyone else having trouble with Firefox /
>> Youtube ??
>>
>> Cliff.
>
>
> The video worked fine for me on Firefox 3.5.5/Mac. Perhaps it would
> help to download the newest Flash player. It seems to me I've had to do
> that from time to time.
>
> -Raf
>

For quite a while now neither Netscape nor IE will bring up Youtube for
me, so I've been using Safari which works well.

Damned if I know why Netscape and IE stopped doing it.

MJRB

Misifus

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Nov 20, 2009, 8:08:00 PM11/20/09
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I've got both Mac OS 10.4.11 and Mac OS 10.6.2 running 3.5.5 Firefox and
playing Youtube easily on both.

Cliff

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Nov 20, 2009, 9:16:45 PM11/20/09
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It's pretty much working....it doesn't like the Dylan clip....it does
a weird thing now....it loads the whole clip before playing it, but at
least it didn't crash.

c.

Chris Dunkle

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Nov 21, 2009, 2:55:09 AM11/21/09
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On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:16:45 -0800 (PST), Cliff
<clif...@ntlworld.com> wrote:

>On Nov 21, 1:08�am, Misifus <rafseib...@att.net> wrote:
>> Mike Brown wrote:
>> > Misifus wrote:
>>
>> >> Cliff wrote:
>>
>> >>> George dubbyas link to the Dylan Santa video has thrown up a problem.
>> >>> I'm running the latest Firefox 3.6 beta 3, and it kept crashing trying
>> >>> to play the macromedia flash files on Youtube.
>> >>> So i've just tried with IE and Google chrome, and though hey were slow
>> >>> to load, they did both work. Anyone else having trouble with Firefox /
>> >>> Youtube ??
>>
>> >>> Cliff.
>>

>It's pretty much working....it doesn't like the Dylan clip....it does


>a weird thing now....it loads the whole clip before playing it, but at
>least it didn't crash.
>
>c.

Glad to hear you got it working, Cliff. I often have problems with
various pages, usually with graphics. My solution has been to use an
add-in for Firefox called IETab. It allows Firefox to emulate IE. Does
a good enough job to do Windows Update with Firefox. Pretty cool, and
free. It sets up so you can change from FF to IE with one click.
Highly recommended.
Chris

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