On 23.01.2015. 14:52, James B. Byrne wrote: > On Thu, January 22, 2015 12:27, Frank Cox wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 09:36:24AM -0500, James B. Byrne wrote: >>> If one has already done all that and, following the most recent FF > update, all that is displayed is a video window with the Flash >>> logo/Button in the middle. And regardless of how many times one > clicks on said button no video will show or sound will emit, what > then? >> What firefox plugins do you have installed that might be blocking > flash? >> I personally don't use flash stuff much, but I have noscript > installed >> and it makes me either allow javascript or click on the embedded > flash >> content to view it. But so far it always seems to work when I > either >> allow >> javascript on the site or click on the content. > > I thought that was the case too. However, disabling NoScript for > YouTube does not change the observed behaviour. It is decidedly odd > in that the Flash video will not play until one sets the enable html5 > option in YouTube. > > One of the artifacts of switching the html5 on in YT is that upon > returning to the video page the video canvas shows an error message, > with the 'Try again later' tag. But simply clicking on the video > frame a second time starts the video. > > I am not sure what is going on. I have discovered that the same > approach (switching on html5 in YouTube) has solved this issue for a > least one of the impacted users. I will try it on others as the > occasion permits. > > It seems to me likely to be a FF issue at its core. > > I solved that for Firefox 35.x. I added some symlinks to $HOME/.mozilla/plugins Here is the list of symlinks: [drlove at kanc ~]$ cd $HOME/.mozilla/plugins [drlove at kanc plugins]$ readlink -f * /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libgnome-shell-browser-plugin.so /usr/lib64/IcedTeaPlugin.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-cone-plugin.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-gmp-plugin.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-mully-plugin.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so I have not made java work though, but I have 31.x for that if necessary -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant