2.53.9.1 You Tube Videos Not Full Screen

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Bob Fam1
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2.53.9.1 You Tube Videos Not Full Screen

Post by Bob Fam1 »

Since I upgraded to 2.53.9.1 I cannot display You Tube videos full screen. It worked fine with 2.46. Firefox works fine.

Is there any way to get them full screen again?

I have searched it and did see one method to fix it but it does not work for me.

I am running WIN7.

Bob.
TPR75
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Re: 2.53.9.1 You Tube Videos Not Full Screen

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Bob Fam1 wrote:Since I upgraded to 2.53.9.1 I cannot display You Tube videos full screen. It worked fine with 2.46. Firefox works fine.

Is there any way to get them full screen again?
If you ask me then I say somebody there is vicious bastard or just plain stupid.

Google.com works (better?) when User Agent is set to fake Firefox 78. In the same time YouTube.com (which belongs to the same company) will not work with fake UA but runs smooth with original UA of SeaMonkey.

I see you've set your User Agent to Firefox 78 with general override. It's OK but for YouTube you need original one. So you can make "site specific override".

You can use this instruction:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... #p14906090
... but with some modification for name:

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general.useragent.override.youtube.com
... and value:

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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.53.9.1
or for 32bit:

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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.53.9.1
You don't need to disable general override. Just make sure that "general.useragent.site_specific_overrides" is set to "true".
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TPR75
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Re: 2.53.9.1 You Tube Videos Not Full Screen

Post by TPR75 »

@FRG

Just checked latest SeaMonkey 2.53.10 beta 1 pre (Build identifier: 20211016210003) and when it's set to "Identify as Firefox" then YT main page will not display correct. Direct URL to video works but with limited functionality. Two other setting for UA are accepted by YT.
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Bob Fam1
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Re: 2.53.9.1 You Tube Videos Not Full Screen

Post by Bob Fam1 »

TPR75 wrote:@FRG

Just checked latest SeaMonkey 2.53.10 beta 1 pre (Build identifier: 20211016210003) and when it's set to "Identify as Firefox" then YT main page will not display correct. Direct URL to video works but with limited functionality. Two other setting for UA are accepted by YT.
Thanks. Works like a charm!!!!! I really appreciate it.

Regards, Bob.
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