Re: Youtube flash not working

[Randy Kramer <rhkramer@gmail.com>]

On Thursday 07 July 2011 11:27:38 am Frank McCormick wrote:
>    Could be...and seemingly not a Google problem.
>    I am running Sid, updated. This morning I tried
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ud_wGMXRnQ (the url above)
> and it loads and plays. When I dropped the 's', I get the black
> screen of death both on Firefox 5.0 and Google-chrome. 

Same for me (as I mentioned in an earlier post)--well, except that I am 
running:

Debian 5.0 (the stable release)
KDE 3.5
Iceweasel 3.0.6
(and am not running adblock)

And, I rarely update the system (software wise) (I know).  I 
occasionally install an additional package.

> This has only 
> started lately, and the same URL's both work in Ubuntu Maverick and
> Natty with both Chrome and Firefox 5.0. 

The problem started for me between 2 and 3 days ago.  I don't really 
remember--at first I figured it was a transient problem that would go 
away, so I ignored it.

I don't use Chrome, and I can't play videos on konqueror, so I only know 
for sure that I have the problem on Iceweasel.

> Seems to be it's a Sid
> problem, unless we hear from other Sid users who don't have the
> problem.

It is apparently not limited to just Sid as I'm running 5.0

Randy Kramer