Dead video in firefox 37
a friend's browser got upgraded to v. 37 yesterday, since then youtube videos do not work.
we just see a blank screen, no video, no audio.
any ideas on how to fix it?
I have the same issue, but i found a solution.
If you go into about:config ( type about:config ) into the adress field.
and then search for media.mediasource.enabled which should be set to true in V37.
Set it to false instead, this made my youtube html5 player work again.
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*Shockwave Flash 10.3 r183
*http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/
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== Issue
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I have another kind of problem with Firefox
== Description
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I cannot view videos within Firefox. I have uninstalled and reinstalled it. I have deleted plugins and reinstalled some plugins, I do not know what else to try. Could someone please help? My telephone number is, (***) ***-**** Name is Pam Harbison. Thank you
<br/> <br/>''(Edited by Moderator: phone number removed - c)''<br/> <br/>
== This happened
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Every time Firefox opened
== I downloaded some plugins
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== Firefox version
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3.6.3
== Operating system
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Windows 7
== User Agent
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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3
== Plugins installed
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*-np-mswmp
*Default Plug-in
*Shockwave Flash 10.0 r45
*3.0.50106.0
*Office Live Update v1.3
*NPWLPG
*6.0.12.732
*RealPlayer(tm) LiveConnect-Enabled Plug-In
*RealJukebox Netscape Plugin
*RealPlayer(tm) HTML5VideoShim Plug-In
*RealArcade_NPAPI_Plugin
*Google Update
*Next Generation Java Plug-in 1.6.0_20 for Mozilla browsers
*NPRuntime Script Plug-in Library for Java(TM) Deploy
*Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape "9.3.2"Hello Pam.
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