Videos on newsites will not play
- fixit7
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Videos on newsites will not play
Videos on sites such as CNN and ABC do not play.
They play on FF?
What is wrong?
Thanks.
They play on FF?
What is wrong?
Thanks.
- ndebord
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Re: Videos on newsites will not play
Can you share a URL where it does not work? It works for me here.fixit7 wrote:Videos on sites such as CNN and ABC do not play.
They play on FF?
What is wrong?
Thanks.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/202 ... -point.cnn
Nick
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Re: Videos on newsites will not play
I have no problem playing videos on CNN or ABC with SM 2.53.10 beta1pre
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Re: Videos on newsites will not play
does OP have Noscript addon installed?
if so that might be why videos on the CNN site don't play in SM.
I disable Noscript addon entirely in SM and videos play on the CNN site but if I enable Noscript, they either don't play or show an error message that something went wrong
if so that might be why videos on the CNN site don't play in SM.
I disable Noscript addon entirely in SM and videos play on the CNN site but if I enable Noscript, they either don't play or show an error message that something went wrong
- fixit7
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Re: Videos on newsites will not play
Your link does not work for me.ndebord wrote:Can you share a URL where it does not work? It works for me here.fixit7 wrote:Videos on sites such as CNN and ABC do not play.
They play on FF?
What is wrong?
Thanks.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/202 ... -point.cnn
Nick
- Peter Creasey
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Re: Videos on newsites will not play
I was able to duplicate the problem of fixit7 at the link provided by ndebord (" https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/202 ... -point.cnn "). When I first clicked the link the page came up and the video swirled and appeared but did not play. It acted like it was about to play but it did not. However I also saw that there was a notice from SeaMonkey that either a pop-up was being blocked or that something else was being blocked, and it gave me the choices of "Keep blocking", "Unblock", or "Preferences". When I clicked "Unblock" the video swirled again and after a few seconds it began to play.
So fixit7 you might want to go to your "Preferences\Privacy & Security\Popup Windows" and check your settings. On my settings I have 'checkmarks' in the boxes for both of the following, "Display an icon in the browser status bar" and "Display a notification bar at the top of the content area". Therefore SeaMonkey notifies me when something is being blocked. Perhaps you may need to make some changes there so that you will be notified if SeaMonkey is blocking something. It is worth a try.
So fixit7 you might want to go to your "Preferences\Privacy & Security\Popup Windows" and check your settings. On my settings I have 'checkmarks' in the boxes for both of the following, "Display an icon in the browser status bar" and "Display a notification bar at the top of the content area". Therefore SeaMonkey notifies me when something is being blocked. Perhaps you may need to make some changes there so that you will be notified if SeaMonkey is blocking something. It is worth a try.
- Snake4
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Re: Videos on newsites will not play
tried in a test New Profile?
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- fixit7
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Re: Videos on newsites will not play
I have those same boxes checked.v_v wrote:I was able to duplicate the problem of fixit7 at the link provided by ndebord (" https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/202 ... -point.cnn "). When I first clicked the link the page came up and the video swirled and appeared but did not play. It acted like it was about to play but it did not. However I also saw that there was a notice from SeaMonkey that either a pop-up was being blocked or that something else was being blocked, and it gave me the choices of "Keep blocking", "Unblock", or "Preferences". When I clicked "Unblock" the video swirled again and after a few seconds it began to play.
So fixit7 you might want to go to your "Preferences\Privacy & Security\Popup Windows" and check your settings. On my settings I have 'checkmarks' in the boxes for both of the following, "Display an icon in the browser status bar" and "Display a notification bar at the top of the content area". Therefore SeaMonkey notifies me when something is being blocked. Perhaps you may need to make some changes there so that you will be notified if SeaMonkey is blocking something. It is worth a try.
I will just live with the issue.
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Re: Videos on newsites will not play
fixit7,
I also discovered yesterday that in different browser another one of the cnn videos would not play. I tried that same web page in another browser WITHOUT adblock (uBlock Origin in my case) and the video ran like it was supposed to. What I noticed was that there was an ad embedded right before the video, and if the ad did not run then the video would not play.
I also discovered yesterday that in different browser another one of the cnn videos would not play. I tried that same web page in another browser WITHOUT adblock (uBlock Origin in my case) and the video ran like it was supposed to. What I noticed was that there was an ad embedded right before the video, and if the ad did not run then the video would not play.
- fixit7
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Re: Videos on newsites will not play
Thanks for the feedback.v_v wrote:fixit7,
I also discovered yesterday that in different browser another one of the cnn videos would not play. I tried that same web page in another browser WITHOUT adblock (uBlock Origin in my case) and the video ran like it was supposed to. What I noticed was that there was an ad embedded right before the video, and if the ad did not run then the video would not play.
I have no problem when I use Firefox.
I am increasingly having other issues as certain sites (banking) not working as well.
I forsee a time coming when I will uninstall Seamonkey and use FF exclusively.
That's a bummer since FF does not play well with the Reminder Fox addon.