# Technical: Can't watch videos all of a sudden?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technical-cant-watch-videos-all-of-a-sudden/357449
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [May 19, 2006, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technical-cant-watch-videos-all-of-a-sudden/357449 "2006-05-19T20:07:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2006, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technical-cant-watch-videos-all-of-a-sudden/357449/1 "2006-05-19T20:07:50Z")
Trying to watch the videos on YouTube (which I used to be able to watch) I now get the following message:
"Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Macromedia’s Flash Player. Click here to get the latest flash player. "
I click there, I click install and get the “Macromedia Flash Player successfully installed” logo. I close all browser windows and restart my computer, and nothing.
As for Java being off, the only option I can find is under Internet Options (I’m running IE 6.0) -\> Advanced, there is a checkbox which says “Use Java 2 v1.4.2\_03 for \ (requires restart)” and it is checked, as it always has been.
This is absolutely agonizing, as it keeps giving me this message and I am completely at a loss as to what’s wrong. So what’s wrong?
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### Author:  [@pope\_hentai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pope_hentai)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2006, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technical-cant-watch-videos-all-of-a-sudden/357449/2 "2006-05-26T20:28:42Z")
i also am having this problem. oddly enough i CAN watch the videos in firefox, or linked from youtub on other websites…
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### Author:  [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2006, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technical-cant-watch-videos-all-of-a-sudden/357449/3 "2006-05-26T20:31:47Z")
Yeah, I sent YouTube an e-mail and they never responded. It happened to me on another site too, but I can’t remember where. _Some_ videos work fine, others don’t. Go figure.
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### Author:  [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2006, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technical-cant-watch-videos-all-of-a-sudden/357449/4 "2006-05-26T21:28:58Z")
Note that Javascript and Java are different things.