Whatever I do with Flash I can't get it to load in Youtube, whether it's on IE or Firefox. I've tried reinstalling it, uninstalling it, disabling adblockers and popup stoppers, etc. No matter what it just tells me I need new Flash player. Can anyone fix this?
Youtube / Flash failure...
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Not JAVA but JAVA SCRIPT. Those are two different things ... however i got the same at work. I only see white square instead of a player but this is most probably caused by a gay Checkpoint installed on my company network.
Looked in ADd / Remove programs and it wasn't there.
Tried uninstalling then reinstalling - same problem again.
Tried downloading the standalone version of Flash for XP and it now shows up in Add / Remove programs, plus certain utils which need Flash now work, where before they didn't. But youtube still says I need Flash in Firefox, though it's now working in IE. Arg.
Tried uninstalling then reinstalling - same problem again.
Tried downloading the standalone version of Flash for XP and it now shows up in Add / Remove programs, plus certain utils which need Flash now work, where before they didn't. But youtube still says I need Flash in Firefox, though it's now working in IE. Arg.
Just to 100% rule out any conflicts within firefox, did you try running it in safe mode?
- Close all instances of Firefox
- Start -> Run -> firefox.exe -safe-mode
- Click Continue (don't check any of the boxes)
- Browse to youtube.com and try and play a video
- Close all instances of Firefox
- Start -> Run -> firefox.exe -safe-mode
- Click Continue (don't check any of the boxes)
- Browse to youtube.com and try and play a video
Put the mouse down and step away from the pc
now turn around and exit the building
what u installed since it last worked ?
now turn around and exit the building
what u installed since it last worked ?
Thx Weirdo, I'll try it later 
@ DB - it worked with old Firefox but since I got the newer version it's failing. beyond that I can think of nothing - no addons or other utils that I have installed. I've even downloaded latest versions of Adblock Plus and Flash Block which were supposed to be able to work with new Flash. Tried disabling them both too but no help. Thing is Flash seems to work on other sites via Firefox but not youtube. Depositfiles doesn't work either, now I think about it.
EDIT: Firefox v2.0.0.15
EDIT again: Went here and tried the suggestion in the bottom post - made a text doc, put the code in it, changed ext to .html and opened in Firefox. It asked me to d/l flash plugin, which I did. Then it asked me to restart Firefox, but before I did I refreshed the page and the video worked. Thinking it was now sorted I went to youtube and got the same error message again. Wot in the fk.
EDIT furthermore: Just found out that other sites which stream youtube videos let me play them fine. So it's just when I try to watch youtube videos by actually going to youtube
I don't get this...
@ DB - it worked with old Firefox but since I got the newer version it's failing. beyond that I can think of nothing - no addons or other utils that I have installed. I've even downloaded latest versions of Adblock Plus and Flash Block which were supposed to be able to work with new Flash. Tried disabling them both too but no help. Thing is Flash seems to work on other sites via Firefox but not youtube. Depositfiles doesn't work either, now I think about it.
EDIT: Firefox v2.0.0.15
EDIT again: Went here and tried the suggestion in the bottom post - made a text doc, put the code in it, changed ext to .html and opened in Firefox. It asked me to d/l flash plugin, which I did. Then it asked me to restart Firefox, but before I did I refreshed the page and the video worked. Thinking it was now sorted I went to youtube and got the same error message again. Wot in the fk.
EDIT furthermore: Just found out that other sites which stream youtube videos let me play them fine. So it's just when I try to watch youtube videos by actually going to youtube
I don't get this...
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Doubt this'll work, but all the other advice seems to be failing...
go to, (I'm assuming you're using XP)
C![:\](/images/smilies/submitted/smark/ohwell.gif "Oh Well :\")
Documents and Settings\YOUR USERNAME\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player
you should have 2 folders go into #sharedobjects and the next folder inside it, then remove all the folders inside that (they should have website names)
Then go back to the flash player folder, and remove all the files from the folder in there: macromedia.com\support\flashplayer\sys
If you're worried about breaking stuff, jus copy/paste them to somewhere else, can always put em back afterwards.
Like I said, doubt it'll work.. but no harm trying
go to, (I'm assuming you're using XP)
C
Documents and Settings\YOUR USERNAME\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Playeryou should have 2 folders go into #sharedobjects and the next folder inside it, then remove all the folders inside that (they should have website names)
Then go back to the flash player folder, and remove all the files from the folder in there: macromedia.com\support\flashplayer\sys
If you're worried about breaking stuff, jus copy/paste them to somewhere else, can always put em back afterwards.
Like I said, doubt it'll work.. but no harm trying
create a new account
log out yours
login into new
try utube
if it works it's something in your account
if it dont then its in the system side of things
that may make it easier to track what problem is
log out yours
login into new
try utube
if it works it's something in your account
if it dont then its in the system side of things
that may make it easier to track what problem is
