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.

===

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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On Thu, 08 Oct 2015 07:09:27 -0400, 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.

===

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!

===

Doubtful that it's really a computer hardware issue although a new
computer would no doubt give your software environment a fresh start.
I had ongoing problems with Firefox videos for a while and went
through some of the same gyrations. Most often if a video would not
open I'd just reload the page on Internet Explorer and play it there.
Eventually it just cleared up and I'm not sure why. Between the
browser, browser extensions, firewall, anti-virus, and ad blocker
software, there are a lot of hidden interactions that can be really
difficult to troubleshoot. I think some of Apple's success is based
on standardization through limiting user choices. I'd really like to
see the video content providers standardize their formats so you'd
only need to solve the problem once.

On Thu, 08 Oct 2015 07:58:28 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 08 Oct 2015 07:09:27 -0400, 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.

===

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!

===

Doubtful that it's really a computer hardware issue although a new
computer would no doubt give your software environment a fresh start.
I had ongoing problems with Firefox videos for a while and went
through some of the same gyrations. Most often if a video would not
open I'd just reload the page on Internet Explorer and play it there.
Eventually it just cleared up and I'm not sure why. Between the
browser, browser extensions, firewall, anti-virus, and ad blocker
software, there are a lot of hidden interactions that can be really
difficult to troubleshoot. I think some of Apple's success is based
on standardization through limiting user choices. I'd really like to
see the video content providers standardize their formats so you'd
only need to solve the problem once.

Your 'most often' solution is also what I do. PITA.

But Chrome was much worse!
--

Ban idiots, not guns!

On 10/8/2015 6:09 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.

===

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!
--

Ban idiots, not guns!

Firefox prefers you don't use flashplayer due to various security
issues. Also Firefox requires it's own specific flash player plug in to
play flash videos.

On Thu, 8 Oct 2015 07:17:44 -0500, Justan Olphart wrote:

On 10/8/2015 6:09 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.

===

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!
--

Ban idiots, not guns!

Firefox prefers you don't use flashplayer due to various security
issues. Also Firefox requires it's own specific flash player plug in to
play flash videos.

Well which plugin is it? I'll go on a search. I love searches, as long as there's no
booby-traps.
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Ban idiots, not guns!

On 10/8/2015 10:24 AM, John H. wrote:
On Thu, 8 Oct 2015 07:17:44 -0500, Justan Olphart wrote:

On 10/8/2015 6:09 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.

===

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!
--

Ban idiots, not guns!

Firefox prefers you don't use flashplayer due to various security
issues. Also Firefox requires it's own specific flash player plug in to
play flash videos.

Well which plugin is it? I'll go on a search. I love searches, as long as there's no
booby-traps.
--

Ban idiots, not guns!

Look on the Mozilla site.

On Thu, 08 Oct 2015 11:24:23 -0400, John H.
wrote:

On Thu, 8 Oct 2015 07:17:44 -0500, Justan Olphart wrote:

firefox prefers you don't use flashplayer due to various security
issues. Also Firefox requires it's own specific flash player plug in to
play flash videos.

Well which plugin is it? I'll go on a search. I love searches, as long as there's no
booby-traps.

The easiest way might be to go to control panel/add remove programs
and wipe out firefox, flash, silver light and anything else that looks
like it is video related. Then you start with firefox and then let it
prompt you to what you need to load to see videos.

Just be sure Internet Exploder is working so you can get to mozilla to
get started

On Thu, 08 Oct 2015 14:09:52 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 08 Oct 2015 11:24:23 -0400, John H.
wrote:

On Thu, 8 Oct 2015 07:17:44 -0500, Justan Olphart wrote:

firefox prefers you don't use flashplayer due to various security
issues. Also Firefox requires it's own specific flash player plug in to
play flash videos.

Well which plugin is it? I'll go on a search. I love searches, as long as there's no
booby-traps.

The easiest way might be to go to control panel/add remove programs
and wipe out firefox, flash, silver light and anything else that looks
like it is video related. Then you start with firefox and then let it
prompt you to what you need to load to see videos.

Just be sure Internet Exploder is working so you can get to mozilla to
get started

I went to the Mozilla site. Was informed that I had the latest Firefox, but was also
presented with a 'Refresh Firefox' window. I did it, but haven't checked for video
playback yet. Will wait and see if I get one that doesn't play.
--

Ban idiots, not guns!

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.

===

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!
--

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.

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.

===

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!
--

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.


Thanks. I saved that in case I need it. Will let you know if I use it.
--

Ban idiots, not guns!