Firefox and YouTube Videos

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   Whitney05posted 16 years ago

   Ok, so I just downloaded FireFox, but it doesn't allow me to see YouTube videos on hubs. It keeps telling me to download some plug, but when I try, nothing happens.
   
   Is this normal?

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      darksideposted 16 years agoin reply to this

      No, not normal at all.
      
      Firefox has always worked with Youtube for me.
      
      What sort of plug in does it say you require?

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         belief713posted 16 years agoin reply to this

         Yeah, no that's definitely not normal - well kind of. I was having the same problem at first with Firefox. It depends on your firewalls and also the pop-up blocker you may have installed. Usually if I click on a link I get something that comes up and says I need to allow the item (similar to IE). Your Firefox should be doing the same. If it isn't it's probably some kind of setting (that I have no idea how to fix).
         
         Most likely you need to download one of the free programs like Java or something similar that allows you to watch videos - I wish I could remember which one it was that I've downloaded, but I can't. Everything you've downloaded to IE (media player, etc) needs to now also be downloaded to be used with Firefox.
         
         Hope this helps.

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            belief713posted 16 years agoin reply to this

            Come to think of it I think you need to download Flash Player again (when using the Firefox browser).
            
            http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download … kwaveFlash
            
            See if that helps. If not, try most of these (again, using the Firefox browser) ...one will work
            
            https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:7

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      daflaposted 16 years agoin reply to this

      Yep, normal.  Doesn't seem that even the geeks over at the Mozilla forum had an answer.  I was forced to use IE to watch videos until a friend told me how to fix it. 
      
      I was gonna put the solution here, but it's so long, so I just put it in a hub
      
      http://hubpages.com/hub/firefoxfix.
      
      Hope this helps.

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   Whitney05posted 16 years ago

   Adobe Flash Player.
   
   When I say to install it, it comes back saying no plug-ins were installed and gives the option to manually install.
   
   Currently, all I see is a white box. On other websites I see a slot where the video is supposed to be and a small link saying something about featured by YouTube, but the link is always there. The difference is no video or even slot for the video.

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   Whitney05posted 16 years ago

   Thanks guys. I'll have to try those things out when I'm back on my computer.

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