Firefox won't display YouTube video

[Pete, WA2CWA]

This site apparently works FB with a number of different browsers. Here's the stats for the last month.

Browser                                     %
Firefox 3.6                        24.34%  
Internet Explorer 8.0           15.13%  
Mozilla 5                           11.73%  
Safari                                6.88%  
Internet Explorer 7.0            5.50%  
Internet Explorer 6.0            5.28%  
Firefox 3.5                         3.74%  
Opera 9.8                            1.75%  
Wget                                   0.91%  
Firefox 3.0                         0.90%

I've tested it with four different browsers on two different operating systems and all were FB.

I wonder what the other 23.84% of browsers are being used? 

[k4kyv]

Interesting that FF is more popular on this site than is IE.

I uninstalled Flash 10.1 and re-installed 10.2.  The download site gave me a choice of a version for IE or "other" browsers.  I downloaded the "other" version. Then made sure  the "accelerator" is  turned off.  Now, it works FB with Firefox.  But it still wouldn't work with IE.  Error message said I needed Flash to view the video, so apparently IE wouldn't recognise the FF version.  So I tried clicking on the "install" button that came with the error message and downloaded the IE version while the IE window was still open.  It sent me through a couple of loops killing processes, but finally downloaded.  Now I can once again view YouTube with IE, as well as download and save the videos.  I switched back to FF, and I still can watch videos, but when I try to save a file, a little notice appears in the Download window that says "unable to download" with no further explanation. I have had that problem before. Never have been able to reliably download videos from YouTube, using the FF browser and Realplayer.  Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. For a while the problem was a known incompatibility with Realplayer, but not sure what it is now.

I guess I'm OK with that for now.  As long as it keeps working I'm not going to waste any more time fiddlefarting with it.  If I want to save a video, it's easy enough to copy the url, open IE and paste, and record it from there.

I have found that recording a video works better if you let it fully download in memory before clicking on the "Download this video" button, instead of trying to save it while it is still streaming. I suspect the buffering process sometimes corrupts the downloaded file.

[Steve - K4HX]

Probably Mosiac, libwww and Lynx.

This site apparently works FB with a number of different browsers. Here's the stats for the last month.

Browser                                      %
Firefox 3.6                         24.34% 
Internet Explorer 8.0           15.13% 
Mozilla 5                           11.73% 
Safari                                6.88%  
Internet Explorer 7.0            5.50%  
Internet Explorer 6.0            5.28% 
Firefox 3.5                         3.74% 
Opera 9.8                            1.75% 
Wget                                   0.91% 
Firefox 3.0                         0.90%

I've tested it with four different browsers on two different operating systems and all were FB.

I wonder what the other 23.84% of browsers are being used? 

[Steve - K4HX]

These numbers add to 99%. The ones shown with 0% make up the other 1%.