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.