gimme back my youtube
Oct. 12th, 2008 08:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
erilynARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
Backstory: for months now, streaming files haven't worked on Firefox (they'd load, I could grab them with DownloadHelper, but wouldn't play), so any youtube/buzznet/etc things that I wanted to watch or listen to, I pasted the link into IE. Annoying, but whatever.
During the last week, I unsuccessfully tried to watch videos on the Colbert Nation website (though IE) and it told me to update my version of Flash Player, so I did. This...didn't go well. End result, after multiple uninstall and install attempts, I can now sometimes watch streaming videos in Firefox (yay?) but can't at all in IE. For instance, at youtube I get an error message "Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Adobe's Flash Player." LIES!
Also, even in Firefox, videos on Colbert Nation and Daily Show websites don't work :( I think my computer is a McCain supporter.
ETA: ok, this is ridiculous. I just installed Google's Chrome browser, and while youtube works in it, the Colbert site still doesn't work.Anyone know if they block international users, but don't bother giving a message that says so? Their terms of use say it's for US residents only. No, apparently they can be viewed internationally. Just not by me *sheds single emo tear*
ETA(2): Currently, if I try to view videos at colbernation.com, it doesn't give me an error or anything, but no video loads, there's just a blank square. However, if I watch a video from there embeded somewhere else (like my own lj), it works! Well, sort of. It works in Chrome, it works with no audio in Firefox, and nada in IE. I'm so confused.
Backstory: for months now, streaming files haven't worked on Firefox (they'd load, I could grab them with DownloadHelper, but wouldn't play), so any youtube/buzznet/etc things that I wanted to watch or listen to, I pasted the link into IE. Annoying, but whatever.
During the last week, I unsuccessfully tried to watch videos on the Colbert Nation website (though IE) and it told me to update my version of Flash Player, so I did. This...didn't go well. End result, after multiple uninstall and install attempts, I can now sometimes watch streaming videos in Firefox (yay?) but can't at all in IE. For instance, at youtube I get an error message "Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Adobe's Flash Player." LIES!
Also, even in Firefox, videos on Colbert Nation and Daily Show websites don't work :( I think my computer is a McCain supporter.
ETA: ok, this is ridiculous. I just installed Google's Chrome browser, and while youtube works in it, the Colbert site still doesn't work.
ETA(2): Currently, if I try to view videos at colbernation.com, it doesn't give me an error or anything, but no video loads, there's just a blank square. However, if I watch a video from there embeded somewhere else (like my own lj), it works! Well, sort of. It works in Chrome, it works with no audio in Firefox, and nada in IE. I'm so confused.
