On Tue, 20 Oct 2015 14:37:08 -0400, John H.
wrote:

On Thu, 8 Oct 2015 09:24:35 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 10/8/2015 7:09 AM, John H. wrote:
On Wed, 07 Oct 2015 21:31:50 -0400, wrote:

On Wed, 07 Oct 2015 20:04:21 -0400, John H.
wrote:

When in Chrome, if I type a line for a search, like 'email links do not work in
Chrome', it just churns but never gives results.

Ideas out there?

Why didn't you just inject yourself with the ebola virus?
Google is evil. The NSA has nothing on them.

No ****. Chrome's gone.

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I'm curious in knowing why you tried Chrome. I've been using Firefox
for a long time and have never found it lacking anything I needed.

I have been having an on-going problem trying to get Firefox to play videos. Often
I'll click a link only to get a black screen, and very often I'll get a window
popping up telling me my 'Flash Player' isn't working. I've reloaded the damn thing a
dozen times, but that's never seemed to help.

HOWEVER - when I tried to get that window to pop up just now, by clicking on various
links, I couldn't get it. Maybe installing and uninstalling Chrome fixed my Firefox
problem.

Or, maybe I just need a new computer!
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Ban idiots, not guns!


John, try this:

Next time you have a problem loading or watching a video using Firefox,
hold down the "shift" key and, at the same time, click on the "reload
current page" icon. It's the half, counterclockwise circle with an
arrow in the right side of the URL address field.

What this does is bypasses the "cache" and stops your computer from
trying to load it into the cache. Once in a while I've had a video that
will start and stop a bit when playing. I just do the above and
it then works fine.


Just tried that with a preview from Redbox. When I hit the 'return' button, it took
me back to the page with the link for the preview.

I'd reinstalled the latest Adobe Flash player only a couple hours ago. I think it's
just a Firefox problem - one which many folks are having.

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Do you have ad blocking software? If so, I'd guess that it's an
interaction between Firefox, Fash and the ad blocker. I switched to a
different computer recently with no ad blocker and Firefox is playing
everything just fine. I'm being inundated with all sorts of
irritating ads however, some of which try to play videos over the top
of what I'm trying to watch.