Fox News Videos in Firefox
 

I can't seem to watch videos from Fox News. I can from all the other news sites. I am able to pull up video from Fox using Opera, just not FF.

I have searched the web for an answer - installing Greasemonkey and a Fox Friendly script to no avail. I do not use noscript, but I do use AdBlock. I even tried disabling AdBlock but that didn't work either.

Konqueror does not work for Fox either. And during my search, solutions were from 2007 thru late 2009 - nothing more recent.

Is it just Firefox, or is it Fox news?

Hi -

Actually, that's a feature. Fox News has been clinically proven to lower your I.Q.; FF is carefully engineered to prevent that from happening ;)

Then it's pretty ironic that it's called Firefox.

It is an option
 

Cannot resist...

It is set up that way by default to protect your system.

To enable Fox News do this:

Edit > Preferences > Content > Keyboard/screen barf protector > Disable

You may also need to set Edit > Preferences > Content > Random valued inverse logic NULL truth mode > Enable

While I tend to agree with the above responses........Foxnews.com works here. I can't say that I'll ever watch another foxnews.com video, but now I know I can should I choose to do so.

And all your comments help this person out how? He is here looking for help, not some jerks looking to diminish what he watches. I do think you all owe him an apology.

mlangdn, I tried to view a video and got an missing plugin error for flash/shockwave. Did you install it? If so, did you install the libs in the proper place?

Well...
 

Well, if mlangdn was offended then I certainly apologize - there was no intent to offend. On the other hand, there was no name calling or personal denigration before the use of the term 'jerk'.

I think the humorous intent of the above posts was self evident and I would hope that the limited but (almost) always good natured humor expressed by memebrs of this forum does not become a matter of contention.

Sorry I could not provide a useful answer mlangdn.

I knew as soon as I posted that I would have to suffer through some political "humor". I don't mind the mindlessness. :)
Yes, Flash is installed. Like I said, it works with Opera, and I can watch other news site's videos, plus youtube, plus anything else I've tried in FF - just not Fox News.

Oh well, the more I use Opera, the more its appeal. I'm just gonna have to skin it properly to make it easier to look at.

I find it odd that it won't work in FF but it does play in Opera. As I stated above, it works fine here, even in the new multilib version that I installed. Does Opera install it's own plugins?

No problems here with Fox videos----FF 3.6, Flash 10.0r42

I'm using Flash 10.0r45, FF-3.6.3
Slackware64-current

It was working with those specs here. It's now working under multilb as well with a 32 bit ff and flash 10.1 rc. I don't know that any of my extra codecs even work with this 32 bit version so I don't think that would be it. Do you have any special cookie or privacy settings?

No to special settings. Straight off the shelf defaults except for fonts and size. It's not a big deal since Opera works. I also have a problem with dishnetwork.com when trying to pay the bill. Opera works fine there. Another one of life's mysteries. I'll revisit this problem someday.

No problems here with Fox videos -FF 3.6+nobinonly-0ub, Flash 10.0.45.2-1, Opera 10.10.4742.gcc4qt. This is on a new install of Ubuntu 10.04. I am upgrading FF to 3.6.3 now and will see if I have problems.

No problems with FF 3.6.3 either.

mlangdn, can you tell us what happens when you try to watch a Fox News video?

Have you tried disabling all your Firefox extensions?

When I click on a a Fox video, I get a black screen with a volume slider only. No start button or stop button.

While typing this, I disabled every extension, and now it works!

Son-of-a-gun - thanks dugan! Now I will enable them one-by-one until I find the culprit.

All-righty, then.
It seems the culprit was the Flashblock extension. This is the one that blocks flash stuff and replaces it with an arrow to click on if you want it to play. It worked everywhere else. If I wanted to see it, I just clicked it.

So, even Flashblock can be blocked! :)

I clicked on foxnews and now I'm convinced, in a fair and balanced way, that every one else is wrong. Most of the time. If you don't believe it, just ask me.

Plus, flashblock should push this as a feature.

regards,

Don't forget that if you right click on a Flashblocked video on a page, you'll get the option to "allow Flash from this page."

Flashblock is wonderful, but it does sometimes throw a wrench into things even when you click to view a video.

Regards,

No, you already felt that way when you switched to Linux ;). And you were right.