Akamai Adaptive Media Player

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Barkley Hound
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Akamai Adaptive Media Player

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Why doesn't the Akamai Adaptive Media Player which is used for some Fox News videos work on Firefox?
Try this URL.
http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/07/28/m ... e-officers
It works on Edge but not Firefox.
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Re: Akamai Adaptive Media Player

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Works fine here. Try disabling Adblock/uBlock.
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Re: Akamai Adaptive Media Player

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Moving to Firefox Support as no bug has been identified here.
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Re: Akamai Adaptive Media Player

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pintassilgo wrote:Works fine here. Try disabling Adblock/uBlock.
It is turned off for Fox News. I get a blank white space where the video should be.

My only add ons are Adblock Plus, Clippings, Dashlane, and Forecastfox. I would think that only Adblock could cause a problem but it is off.

What is strange is I started playing with the performance settings by checking and unchecking and refreshing the page and it did not seem to help so I went back the the initial setting (use recommended settings). All of a sudden the video started to play. I refreshed the page and it would not play again. I played with performance settings again and it would still not play again.
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Re: Akamai Adaptive Media Player

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Works for me with FF61.0.1. Try safe mode by restarting FF using Help > Restart with Add-ons disabled...

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I restarted in safe mode and it worked. I then restarted with the add-ons enabled and it still worked. Something must have been triggered.
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A better choice than Adblock Plus is uBlock Origin.

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