Youtube + flash

[klavspe]

I've been running noscript + firefox for a long time.

When I do a clean install of my OS and utils, I disallow youtube.com and flash. So when I open my browser and visit youtube to watch a video I have to do the follwoing:

1) Temporarily allow youtube.com

And when this is done

2) Click on the flash element and temporarily 'Activate Adobe Flash'

Usually when I temporarily allow youtube and before I allow the flash element, the flash element is disabled immediately. But now it loads the element (and displayes the duration and the movie navigation slider, then it 'hour glasses' for a while, and then it shows the faimilar 'Activate Adobe Flash' on the flash element. This takes from 30 seconds to a minute, which is very annoying, especially when I was used to it displaying 'Activate Adobe Flash' immediately.

Does anyone know what has happened, how to make noscript work the way it used to work?

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NB: I tried to register for the forum, but I never received any mail/activation code in the email.

[barbaz]

Change on YouTube's end? Perhaps they try to show the HTML5 version of the player, can't, then fall back to the Flash version?

NB: I tried to register for the forum, but I never received any mail/activation code in the email.

Under the name "klavsp"? You seem "here"...

If you do not receive an activation email within 24 hours post back here and I will PM Giorgio. (We Mods can't do much with accounts on this board.)

Once you get your account going I can put your OP under your account if you want.

[klavspe]

Thank you.

It seems youtube changed something. I now have to allow googlevideo.com too, then the video displays immediately.

Wrt to the forum registration, I made the forum re-send me the confirmation link, and it worked the 2nd time. You don't have to change anything wrt to the username of my 2 posts in this thread, unless you really want to.

[barbaz]

Er.. isn't googlevideo.com in the default whitelist now?
Did you remove it?

Wrt to the forum registration, I made the forum re-send me the confirmation link, and it worked the 2nd time. You don't have to change anything wrt to the username of my 2 posts in this thread, unless you really want to.

OK glad that's resolved.

I'll leave the posts as-is since it doesn't matter to you.

[therube]

Er.. isn't googlevideo.com in the default whitelist now?
Did you remove it?

It is.
But... AFAIK, there is no retroactive change to a persons whilelist?
An update to the defaulted whitelist only being effected... perhaps on a Reset (& not on a NoScript version update)?
(I assume that about:*, & others like that, are handled differently & are updated with a NoScript version update.)

So if you were a long time user, prior to when googlevideo.com had been defaulted, & you had not manually Allowed googlevideo, or if you have not done a Reset, then it would not be in your whitelist. So in that respect, there need not have been a removal for it not to be there.

[therube]

Hmm.
And now I'm confused.
Because what I see & what I said & what I said & what I see are not agreeing...?

I certainly do not have googlevideo.com, but I do have mediasource:.
And I know there are other sites that are new defaulted, that I do not have, & that I had not "manually" allowed/disallowed in any manner.


Edited:^

[barbaz]

They started from a clean install of NoScript... so googlevideo.com should be there...

[barbaz]

Hmm.
And now I'm confused.
Because what I see & what I said & what I said & what I see are not agreeing...?

I certainly do not have googlevideo.com, but I do have mediasource:.
And I know there are other sites that are new defaulted, that I do not have, & that I had not "manually" allowed/disallowed in any manner.

Yes, the "forced" whitelist is updated independently, so it's no surprise you got mediasource: .
NoScript does have the ability to change the whitelist of users with a non-default whitelist, unless the user opted out in about:config. In practice though it's only used if the user chose to keep a site in the default whitelist that since has new dependencies or changed (e.g. googleapis was added for those who trusted Google, and browserid.org was replaced with persona.org).