[Unrelated] Cannot click on YouTube video placeholder

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barbaz
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[Unrelated] Cannot click on YouTube video placeholder

Post by barbaz »

NS 2.6.6.9rc1. If I go to a Youtube video page and temp-allow scripts on www. youtube. com only, I can't click the flash placeholder for the player. I can still temp-allow it from the Blocked Objects menu, but on this computer I can't interact with the video player. The issue with the placeholder appears to be profile-related, but with this profile on an Ubuntu system running Fx 17.0.7 I can still interact with the player. This issue started when I changed the OS in my user-agent string to Windows Vista x86-64. Reverting that didn't help. Any ideas how I can fix this?
*Always* check the changelogs BEFORE updating that important software!
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0
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Re: Cannot click on YouTube video placeholder

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URL: Thick as a Brick

I'm not quite following, but all looks to be working as expected for me.
Playback starts upon clicking the placeholder.
No need to visit blocked objects.

> issue with the placeholder appears to be profile-related

As a test, create a new, clean Profile, install only NoScript.
Does that work?

If it does, then go back to your original Profile & disable all other extensions & check ...
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Pinball NoScript FlashGot AdblockPlus
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.21a2
barbaz
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Re: Cannot click on YouTube video placeholder

Post by barbaz »

Thanks for your help, therube. Found an old version of my profile (before this started) and after plugging that in it turns out that the issue is caused by mis-configuration of Adblock Plus filters. Sorry about that. :oops:
*Always* check the changelogs BEFORE updating that important software!
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0
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