# All of the sudden it seems the Opera browser and YouTube do not like each other very much.

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**Created:** [December 8, 2012, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-of-the-sudden-it-seems-the-opera-browser-and-youtube-do-not-like-each-other-very-much/643420 "2012-12-08T16:15:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2012, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-of-the-sudden-it-seems-the-opera-browser-and-youtube-do-not-like-each-other-very-much/643420/1 "2012-12-08T16:15:23Z")

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Recently the Opera browser and YouTube seem to be disagreeing with one another.

Often but (oddly) not always, when I click to go Full Screen the screen fills up _behind_ the rest of the page. The Title/Description Box stays where it is (under what _would have been_ the space for the small screen player) and the list of suggested videos on the right side column stays exactly where it had been. The Full Screen player plays _behind_ all of this.

I can copy and paste the URL to bring up the exact same video with Firefox then click Full Screen and there’s no problem. It’s only a problem with Opera.

More puzzling is that it is not the case with every video. There are some videos for which Full Screen works fine on Opera. I have not been able to determine anything to distinguish videos that will work from videos that will not work.

Also, I had not encountered this problem until this week (I do not remember updating Opera in the past week, but I may have).

Any idea what’s going on here?

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**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2012, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-of-the-sudden-it-seems-the-opera-browser-and-youtube-do-not-like-each-other-very-much/643420/2 "2012-12-08T21:46:46Z")

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I’m running 12.00 with no problem there.

Check on things like plug-ins and ad blockers. Some video-related plug-ins and user scripts don’t work with all versions of Opera.