[RESOLVED] Upgrading to Firefox 40 breaks YouTube

[rschaffter]

HI,
I upgraded to FF 40 last night, and on YouTube, left clicking on the blocked flash doesn't play the video. I now have to go to the menu and temporally allow it from Blocked Objects.

I have NoScript 2.6.9.36 and FF 40.03 and Flash 11.2.202.508 (this is the current Linux version, updated 8/7/2015) under openSUSE Linux...

Thanx!
Rod

[barbaz]

I had the same problem a long time ago after switching from Fx 17 to Fx 18, & it was nothing to do with NoScript & not to do with the browser upgrade either.
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=16387

So if you don't have a copy of your profile from before this issue started: try a new profile with only NoScript installed, if it works there go back to your main profile and do Standard Diagnostic. From there it's likely a settings tweak of some sort in the culprit addon.

Please let us know the results, thanks.

[rschaffter]

Yes, it does behave this way it in a newly created profile with Noscript installed...

[barbaz]

When it fails do you see anything related in the Browser Console (Ctrl-Shift-J)?
(related messages usually start with "[NoScript" or "[ABE]"; if you don't know what is related turn off CSS warnings and post everything else you see)

[therube]

left clicking on the blocked flash doesn't play the video

What does happen?

[rschaffter]

left clicking on the blocked flash doesn't play the video

What does happen?

It flashes the player window, which says "An error occurred. Please Try again later." and then goes back to the blocked media placeholder...

[barbaz]

Which blocked objects menu entry are you clicking on to temp-allow it? Where is it relative to the separator and what is its exact text (I don't care about URLs being exactly right)?

[therube]

(Was there similar sounding bug that Al, or someone, posted?)

This it, youtube embed double activation (iframe, flash) problem ?

[rschaffter]

Which blocked objects menu entry are you clicking on to temp-allow it? Where is it relative to the separator and what is its exact text (I don't care about URLs being exactly right)?

The top one in each group works; first on the list, shockwave-flash@https://s.tymig.com/.../watch_as3.swf works.

Also, *@https://s.tymig.com and **http://r---snv8gxpvo-cvnl.googlevideo.com (sorry for any transcription errors!) both work

The second on the list, video/ogg@... does not work. I haven't tried any others.

Ar far as the error therube mentioned goes, clicking multiple times dotes not bring up the video, but the error screen again.

I did note today that embedded YouTube videos DO work properly; it is an issue only on YouTube.com..

[rschaffter]

I just noticed, if I mouse over the placeholder, the address starts with <video>,video/ogg@https://r7---sn-8xgp1vo-cvne.googlevideo.com...

[rschaffter]

I just noticed, if I mouse over the placeholder, the address starts with <video>,video/ogg@https://r7---sn-8xgp1vo-cvne.googlevideo.com...

Actually, it may be related to the error therube mentioned; If I click on the 'x' in the top right of the placeholder, and quickly click on the Shockwave logo at top left, it plays...

[barbaz]

video/ogg - that means you being served html5 video, which its url will change every time you try activate it, the only answer is pick one of the video/ogg@... options below the separator (or, if you don't use "apply these restrictions to whitelisted sites too", just (temp-)allow googlevideo.com).

the flash menu item works when you being served flash video, because the flash object url remains the same for the same video.

[barbaz]

oh, and what firefox version did you have before the upgrade?

[rschaffter]

The previous version was Firefox 39.0.1, installed on 7/22

[rschaffter]

Seems to be solved; either upgrading to FF 41 or Noscript 2.6.9.39 made the issue go away and it now works as expected.