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Re: [Solved] youtube error msg & html5

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On Tue, 12 Sep 2017 10:57:38 -0400
Whit Hansell <skipper44@comcast.net> wrote:

> For grins, I tried restarting  Firefox w/o plugins.  Then went to 
> youtube and tried a video.  Worked perfectly.  So knew it was a plug-in. 
>   Turned out to be "You tube flashplayer - html5."  disabled it and 
> Voila' it worked.

Thanks for letting us know (I was guessing you had a plugin or extension that disabled vital Google Javascript).

But I'd never heard of "Youtube Flash Player - HTML5". nor did its name make any sense, so - fearing you may have been tricked into installing malware - I went off googling.  And now I'm really baffled: it's apparently a "lightweight Flash player" dedicated to the single task of viewing Youtube videos, for use when the browser's HTML5 capabilities are not up to the job of running YT's HTML5 player - but this lightweight Flash player *needs* Adobe's full Flash Player to be installed in order to work.  So what's the advantage of the lightweight "shim" ???!?  You might just as well stick to using the Adobe Flash Player to both watch YT videos and turn your PC into a playground for Bad Guys :)

I's be interested in any explanation of this curious situation that anyone may be able to offer.

Cheers
Nick
-- 
Never FDISK after midnight.

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youtube error msg & html5 Whit Hansell <skipper44@comcast.net> - 2017-09-11 23:50 +0200
  Re: youtube error msg & html5 Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2017-09-12 00:50 +0200
    Re: youtube error msg & html5 Whit Hansell <skipper44@comcast.net> - 2017-09-12 14:00 +0200
      Re: youtube error msg & html5 "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2017-09-12 16:30 +0200
        Re: youtube error msg & html5 Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2017-09-12 22:30 +0200
          Re: youtube error msg & html5 Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-09-12 22:30 +0200
          Re: youtube error msg & html5 John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2017-09-13 17:00 +0200
      Re: youtube error msg & html5 Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2017-09-12 22:20 +0200
  Re: youtube error msg & html5 Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2017-09-12 10:30 +0200
    Re: youtube error msg & html5 Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2017-09-12 12:50 +0200
      Re: youtube error msg & html5 Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2017-09-12 12:50 +0200
        Re: youtube error msg & html5 <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-09-12 13:00 +0200
          Re: youtube error msg & html5 Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2017-09-12 14:20 +0200
            Re: youtube error msg & html5 <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-09-12 14:50 +0200
        Re: youtube error msg & html5 Whit Hansell <skipper44@comcast.net> - 2017-09-12 14:20 +0200
          Re: youtube error msg & html5 <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-09-12 14:50 +0200
            Re: youtube error msg & html5 Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2017-09-12 15:40 +0200
        Re:[Solved] youtube error msg & html5 Whit Hansell <skipper44@comcast.net> - 2017-09-12 17:00 +0200
          Re: [Solved] youtube error msg & html5 Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2017-09-12 22:30 +0200
          Re: [Solved] youtube error msg & html5 Nick Boyce <nick@steelyglint.org> - 2017-09-13 18:40 +0200
  Re: youtube error msg & html5 Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-09-13 22:50 +0200

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