Video embeds show up as empty black squares

Related to: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/967209
In firefox 27, 28, and nightly youtube embeds frequently show up as blank black squares. I cannot even right click them to inspect the iframe containing the video. No controls whatsoever are available. Safe mode does not change this behavior. Disabling the Shockwave Flash plugin causes the videos to load correctly as html5 video. Flash youtube embeds work fine in IE11 and chrome.
Ex: the 4th and 5th video embedded in this page http://lajollacreative.com/blog.html are blank while the first 3 load fine and appear to be using the html5 player.
Edit: If I go to http://lajollacreative.com/blog.html and modify the URL in the iframes of the offending videos to remove the "http:" or "https:" the video loads correctly. It seems that flash youtube embeds are broken in firefox if the URL is prefixed with "http:" or "https:"

The pattern I see is a problem with the videos in iframes that use a secure (HTTPS) URL. The player loads into the iframe, but the media never loads.
You can extract the iframe src URLs and display them above the iframes for diagnosis using a little snippet of script.
Open Firefox's Web Console below the page by pressing Ctrl+Shift+k. Then paste the following next to the caret (») and press Enter to run it:
var ifs=document.getElementsByTagName("iframe"); for (var i=0; i<ifs.length; i++) {var p=document.createElement("p"); p.appendChild(document.createTextNode("iframe src="+ifs[i].getAttribute("src"))); p.style.color="red"; ifs[i].parentNode.insertBefore(p, ifs[i]);}
But... I can't figure out why there is a problem. ??

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