Youtube/Firefox Foulup??

John Graddy jwgraddy at valornet.com
Fri Jan 20 15:16:26 UTC 2012


On 01/19/2012 08:35 PM, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
>  On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 4:35 AM, John Graddy <jwgraddy at valornet.com>
>  wrote:
> > A friend sent me the following:
> >
> > Subject: What a beautiful voice!!! Check this out!!!!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Please listen to this beautiful song and the amazing voice of
> > Jackie Evancho.
> >
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foUrBztgzZA
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > If I click on the link, I go to youtube in Firefox and nothing is
> > downloaded/played.
> >
> > I I go directly to youtube, search for "jackie evancho to believe".
> > and click on the link that youtube presents, the video plays
> > perfectly in firefox.
> >
> > If I bring up firefox before clicking the link in the email, the
> > video plays perfectly in firefox.
> >
> > I am running a clean install of Ubuntu 11.10 with all updates
> > installed.
> >
> > I believe that this started after the last batch of updates
> > (January 16?)
>
>  In my Ubuntu 11.10 32-bit installation, with all updates installed,
>  your link works OK.
>
>  Perhaps it is some Firefox Add-On glitch. Try disabling them one at
>  a time, to find the faulty one.
>
>
>
Thanks for the response.  When I disabled the Flash 11.1 plugin, all is 
OK.  I don't understand why.  What did disabling flasj 11.1 do?  Remove 
flash completely?  Restore a previous version?

John
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