Mark W Posted June 27, 2008 Report Share Posted June 27, 2008 Over the past few days, Firefox has been refusing to stream any videos at all, from Vimeo, Youtube, Mpora, etc. - it's getting pretty f**king annoying. Internet Explorer does it fine, but Firefox won't - anyone got any ideas what I can do to try and fix it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonny Clarke Posted June 27, 2008 Report Share Posted June 27, 2008 Over the past few days, Firefox has been refusing to stream any videos at all, from Vimeo, Youtube, Mpora, etc. - it's getting pretty f**king annoying. Internet Explorer does it fine, but Firefox won't - anyone got any ideas what I can do to try and fix it? Re-install Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Quinn Posted June 27, 2008 Report Share Posted June 27, 2008 I've had that for f**king ages Some days it's fine and then others it just goes up to 2 seconds with no sound and then stops (even though the loading ahead bar carries on). I end up just copy pasting them into IE. Reeaallly annoying. My dad has made up some conspiracy theory that it's something Microsoft put in their codecs/operating systems Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted June 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2008 Yeah, that's exactly what mine does. It's f**king weak. Fortunately, redtube and youporn continue to work flawlessly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Campbell Posted June 27, 2008 Report Share Posted June 27, 2008 Which firefox version? After reinstall try redownload and install. Try reinstall Flash/redownload install. If all else fails try downloading Opera and see if it works in that. If not could be Bill Gates in ur peesee chewin ur wirez or something Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshW Posted June 27, 2008 Report Share Posted June 27, 2008 Yeah, that's exactly what mine does. It's f**king weak. Fortunately, redtube and youporn continue to work flawlessly. LOL. Ahh right just looked this up for you. Some geek guy said you need to update firefox, and install all new versions of flash if you havnt allready done so. Other than that, this is what i found of some blog website. "So you’re trying to watch an old Star Trek episode on the CBS Classic TV Shows site using Firefox (2 or 3) but much to your dismay you find that the video is choppy and dropping frames, ruining your plan to go where no man has gone before. You also might realize that suddenly your faithful old single core processor that’s kept it’s cool through everything you two have been through has suddenly come down with a bad case of heat stroke. Well, if you had checked your task manager (in Windows that is) you would have seen that Firefox.exe was running your CPU at 99% while playing the video which would explain why all your PC’s fans now sound like the engines of a WWII B29 Super Fortress running at full bore. Bloody Firefox, you say? Internet Explorer 7.0/8.0 plays the video just fine? Don’t blame the browser. Firefox doesn’t stream videos…the Shockwave Flash plugin does and that particular plugin for Firefox made by Adobe has a problem. For those of you who don’t know, Adobe makes 2 different Shockwave Flash plugins. One for IE and one for Firefox which is also the same plugin that Opera uses and if the streaming video you’re trying to view in Firefox is causing all sorts of problems attempting to view the same video using Opera will produce the same results. What the exact problem within the Flash plugin for Firefox actually is I can’t tell you, I’m not a programmer. But the bottom line is that it has to be fixed. It’s simply not good enough anymore to simply shrug our shoulders and say well, it’s been like that for 3-4 years now so why bother? Here’s a good reason posted by one member of the Mozillazine Forums in response to someone else’s question; “Why bother?”:" If you cant be arsed to read, says basicaly theres one version of flash for IE and another for mozilla, and someones bugered up the mozilla one so therefore thats why it works in IE but not Firefox, and theres no mention of a fix anywhere, except obv updating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredrico Posted June 27, 2008 Report Share Posted June 27, 2008 Install internet explorer Awaits flaming Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshW Posted June 27, 2008 Report Share Posted June 27, 2008 Install internet explorer Awaits flaming +1 Vista and ie7 works better than vista + mozilla well as far as im concerned ^^ then again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenLeacock™ Posted June 27, 2008 Report Share Posted June 27, 2008 i keep getting this aswell Connection Interrupted The document contains no data. The network link was interrupted while negotiating a connection. Please try again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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