Only block ytimg on youtube?

[Jorlem]

I've recently been having a few problems with some youtube pages crashing my Firefox 4 (even in safe mode with no extensions), and I've discovered that if I block ytimg.com, this doesn't happen. Unfortunately, blocking ytimg.com with NoScript also prevents videos embedded in other sites from working at all. To get around this, I've been trying to cobble together an ABE rule that would block ytimg on youtube.com, but allow it on other websites. Unfortunately, the best I've been able to do completely borks youtube pages, and prevents embedded videos from even appearing as black rectangles that do nothing, instead appearing as a bit of text that reads 'Advertisement.' Could someone that knows what they are doing please help?

[Giorgio Maone]

Did you try

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Site .ytimg.com
Deny INC(SCRIPT) from .youtube.com

?

[Jorlem]

No, I had tried to cobble something together from the facebook example on the noscript.net/abe page, which as I said, didn't work. I tried the code you suggested, and it works on youtube, blocking all the ytimg stuff. However, it is also blocking the vidoes that are embedded in another site, which I'd like to be able to watch. For example, it kept synchtube channels from working, as well as youtube videos embedded in a Blogger powered blog. Thanks though.

[therube]

URL: http://173.255.204.78/r/leodris (synctube)

Simply allowed 173.255.204.78, then clicked the Flash placeholder.

Didn't have to do anything with .ytimg.com, though I did set up the ABE rule.


(Then I crashed not long afterward. Don't know if related or not, though very possibly not. https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/ ... 6e02110526.)

[Jorlem]

Huh, that's odd. The synchtube is working for me now too . Before it was just showing a black rectangle. Anyway, here's a page on the site where I first noticed the ytimg being blocked stopping embeds, on a Blogger powered blog. That isn't working with the code given earlier enabled.