No videos on Youtube

I'm running Firefox 61.0.2 64-bits on Win10. For the last week or so,
I can't see any videos on Youtube. The page appears, but there's
nothing at the top where the video should be. There's the header and
search bar at the top of the page, but the next thing is the title of
the video and the bar with thumbs up, thumbs down, Share, Save to, and
.... buttons.

What would cause that? I haven't made any changes since I could see
the videos. FWIW: I just tried ir in Edge, and it works fine. What???

--
Tim Slattery
tim at risingdove dot com

Replying to 09/03 Tim Slattery

What would cause that? I haven't made any changes since I could see
the videos. FWIW: I just tried ir in Edge, and it works fine. What???

I don't have a clue but I tested it on Quantum & it works for me (61.0.2).
If it works for you on Edge I would think it's your Firefox setup.

Does it work if you reset the Firefox 61 to original default settings?
Does it work for you in a Firefox-like browser?

What's the most similar browser to Firefox anyway?

Is it Waterfox? https://waterfoxproject.org/en-US/
Iceweasel? https://sourceforge.net/projects/iw4win/
Palemoon? http://www.palemoon.org/
SeaMonkey? https://www.seamonkey-project.org/
IceCat? http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/

If it doesn't work for those also, then it could be something in Mozilla.
There's a set of newsgroups for Mozilla support somewhere.
I think they're something like mozilla.general or mozilla.support.firefox
Guessing the serverit would likely be something like news.mozilla.org:119

Great luck!

Tim Slattery wrote:

I'm running Firefox 61.0.2 64-bits on Win10. For the last week or so,
I can't see any videos on Youtube. The page appears, but there's
nothing at the top where the video should be. There's the header and
search bar at the top of the page, but the next thing is the title of
the video and the bar with thumbs up, thumbs down, Share, Save to, and
... buttons.

What would cause that? I haven't made any changes since I could see
the videos. FWIW: I just tried ir in Edge, and it works fine. What???

Extensions get updated which means changed code. Adblockers use block
lists that they don't write but get from elsewhere, and those get
updated, too. That you haven't changed anything doesn't stop Firefox,
adblockers, block lists, and other extensions from updating, or even
Windows from updating.

New code = fix some old problems + introduce new problems.

Have you purged all locally cached data for Firefox?
Have you tried loading Firefox in its safe mode and retest?
Have you tried temporarily disabling your anti-virus and retest?

Tim Slattery wrote:
I'm running Firefox 61.0.2 64-bits on Win10. For the last week or so,
I can't see any videos on Youtube. The page appears, but there's
nothing at the top where the video should be. There's the header and
search bar at the top of the page, but the next thing is the title of
the video and the bar with thumbs up, thumbs down, Share, Save to, and
... buttons.

What would cause that? I haven't made any changes since I could see
the videos. FWIW: I just tried ir in Edge, and it works fine. What???


I've had some funny things happening in the last week too.

My main browser started crashing, soon after usage
on *any* main site. To me, it suggests some script,
maybe GoogleAdwords or similar rubbish, is tipping
things over.

I checked and updated Flash, cleaned caches, and still
with the crashing.

I think this was done on purpose.

That browser was also using FlashBlock, which allows
selective control. Even the Adobe Flash test page
wasn't showing the current flash version properly.
(Whether up to date or not.)

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/about/

*******

You can try this page, and see whether your browser
appears or claims to be "buzzword compliant".
There used to be a selector for video preference,
but that's been removed.

https://www.youtube.com/html5

This is an example of what the page looks like.

https://s33.postimg.cc/55fkuperj/youtube_html5_page.gif

I don't think I've managed to watch a video in
the last week, as a result of these "improvements".

Paul

On Mon, 03 Sep 2018 13:08:30 -0400, Tim Slattery
wrote:

I'm running Firefox 61.0.2 64-bits on Win10. For the last week or so,
I can't see any videos on Youtube. The page appears, but there's
nothing at the top where the video should be. There's the header and
search bar at the top of the page, but the next thing is the title of
the video and the bar with thumbs up, thumbs down, Share, Save to, and
... buttons.

What would cause that? I haven't made any changes since I could see
the videos. FWIW: I just tried ir in Edge, and it works fine. What???

You need to go back to 56 or another browser.
Be sure to change the setting so Firefox can't update.

On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 18:31:41 +0100, ? Good Guy ?
wrote:

On 03/09/2018 18:08, Tim Slattery wrote:

What would cause that?
The cause could be that you are completely ignorant of where to post
questions about Firefox. Perhaps, do a search to see if there are any
newsgroups for Firefox. Have you tried Mozilla website to see if they
have links for their support sites?

I haven't made any changes since I could see
the videos.
That's wonderful. this should be a plus on your side., We get people
who are so anxious that they start changing things and breaking
everything and they start blaming Microsoft or Windows 10.

FWIW: I just tried ir in Edge, and it works fine. What???

Edge is the de-facto standard these days and people should be using it
as their default browser. Mozilla has lost its bearing and it doesn't
know what they are doing and where they want to go.

You got that right!

On 9/3/2018 1:08 PM, Tim Slattery wrote:
I'm running Firefox 61.0.2 64-bits on Win10. For the last week or so,
I can't see any videos on Youtube.
[...]

All I can offer is confirmation that this combo works fine on my Win10
computers. No problem viewing default videos as well as searched videos
on YouTube.

Hope you can track down the problem.

--
best regards,

Neil

Tim Slattery wrote:

I'm running Firefox 61.0.2 64-bits on Win10. For the last week or
so, I can't see any videos on Youtube

What does their HTML5 status page say?

https://www.youtube.com/html5

Try disabling and/or uninstalling flash.

Lucifer wrote:
On Mon, 03 Sep 2018 13:08:30 -0400, Tim Slattery
wrote:

I'm running Firefox 61.0.2 64-bits on Win10. For the last week or so,
I can't see any videos on Youtube. The page appears, but there's
nothing at the top where the video should be. There's the header and
search bar at the top of the page, but the next thing is the title of
the video and the bar with thumbs up, thumbs down, Share, Save to, and
... buttons.

What would cause that? I haven't made any changes since I could see
the videos. FWIW: I just tried ir in Edge, and it works fine. What???

You need to go back to 56 or another browser.
Be sure to change the setting so Firefox can't update.


Hmm, You Tube works just fine on my Win 10 machine with the latest
Firefox. Sure it's not just a setting in FF?

On Tue, 4 Sep 2018 15:27:02 +0200, Weatherman
wrote:

Lucifer wrote:
On Mon, 03 Sep 2018 13:08:30 -0400, Tim Slattery
wrote:

I'm running Firefox 61.0.2 64-bits on Win10. For the last week or so,
I can't see any videos on Youtube. The page appears, but there's
nothing at the top where the video should be. There's the header and
search bar at the top of the page, but the next thing is the title of
the video and the bar with thumbs up, thumbs down, Share, Save to, and
... buttons.

What would cause that? I haven't made any changes since I could see
the videos. FWIW: I just tried ir in Edge, and it works fine. What???

You need to go back to 56 or another browser.
Be sure to change the setting so Firefox can't update.


Hmm, You Tube works just fine on my Win 10 machine with the latest
Firefox. Sure it's not just a setting in FF?

Mozzila has lost its way.

Weatherman wrote:

Hmm, You Tube works just fine on my Win 10 machine with the latest
Firefox. Sure it's not just a setting in FF?

I've checked settings, I didn't see anything that might do that. (And
videos play on other websites.) I don't have any extensions loaded.

--
Tim Slattery
tim at risingdove dot com

Tim Slattery wrote:

Weatherman wrote:

Hmm, You Tube works just fine on my Win 10 machine with the latest
Firefox. Sure it's not just a setting in FF?

I've checked settings, I didn't see anything that might do that. (And
videos play on other websites.) I don't have any extensions loaded.

Not true. Youtube is now using HTML5 video. You can disable autoplay
by going into about:config and changing media.autoplay.enabled from true
(the default) to false.

If it has changed to false, the user made that change. I don't know if
there is an extension that will change this setting (lots of extensions
merely change settings in about:config to provide a GUI to those
settings rather than drill through the about:config editor). However,
the installation of such an extension would still be the choice of the
user who wants the behavior or features of that extension.

Some sites call play() directly, so this setting has no effect on
whether their video autoplays or not. They don't rely on the autoplay
attribute. Firefox's setting only affects when autoplay is explicitly
specified. As I recall, Youtube is one of those sites. If autoplay is
disabled, and if the inbuilt play controls are assumed instead of
separate controls coded for the object, the play controls may not be
visible, so the user must right-click to select Play.

With media.autoplay.enabled = false, what I get in FF 61 is the first
frame of the video (which could be black if that's what the video has as
its first frame since some authors like to fade into their video) along
with a constantly rotating circular icon. Changing this settings does
not produce the page layout described by the OP. Although autoplay may
be disabled, there is still a placeholder for the space allocated in the
code within which the video will play. That the video's placeholder is
absent (and apparently the layout is squashed) indicates the OP
installed an extensions that strips content out of the page, like an
adblocker, Enhancer for Youtube (but configured badly), or something
else that blocks resources or modifies the page.

You don't have any extensions but we don't know what the OP might have
installed. There are programs that operates as local proxies that can
modify web content, too, so they affect what you get in a web browser.
External proxies can also mishandle content (sometimes deliberately or
due to limitations regarding bandwidth).

On Mon, 03 Sep 2018 13:08:30 -0400, Tim Slattery
wrote:

I'm running Firefox 61.0.2 64-bits on Win10. For the last week or so,
I can't see any videos on Youtube. The page appears, but there's
nothing at the top where the video should be. There's the header and
search bar at the top of the page, but the next thing is the title of
the video and the bar with thumbs up, thumbs down, Share, Save to, and
... buttons.

What would cause that? I haven't made any changes since I could see
the videos. FWIW: I just tried ir in Edge, and it works fine. What???

I see the same thing and just reload the page and the video plays.

VanguardLH wrote:

Tim Slattery wrote:

Weatherman wrote:

Hmm, You Tube works just fine on my Win 10 machine with the latest
Firefox. Sure it's not just a setting in FF?

The other day Firefox updated itself to 62.0.3, and now Youtube videos
work just fine. Among other things, the "What's new" page says: "Fixed
playback of some encrypted video streams on macOS (bug 1491940)". I'm
running Win10, as previously stated, but I wonder if that fixed my
problem?

--
Tim Slattery
tim at risingdove dot com

On Fri, 05 Oct 2018 11:06:29 -0400, Tim Slattery
wrote:

The other day Firefox updated itself to 62.0.3, and now Youtube videos
work just fine. Among other things, the "What's new" page says: "Fixed
playback of some encrypted video streams on macOS (bug 1491940)". I'm
running Win10, as previously stated, but I wonder if that fixed my
problem?


I hadn't had any trouble with YouTube, but I've had a minor FireFox
issue since upgrading to FireFox 62.0.3 and Windows 1809 (I'm not sure
which of those upgrades was responsible). Except for the current tab,
all of the other tabs turn black for a while, then turn back to gray.
It's not a giant problem, but it's a nuisance.