Why won't Youtube and a few other sites show me videos on IE anymore?

Factual Questions
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For 3 days, I’ve been unable to view videos on Internet Explorer at youtube and at MSNBC, along with a few other news sites. I’d not had this problem before.

When trying to access videos at these sites, I get a variety of error messages. Youtube tells me: “Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Adobe’s Flash Player”’

It then links me to Adobe Flash Player download center, where it offers to install Adobe Flash Player version 9.0.124.0 for Windows & Internet Explorer, which is what I use.

The MSNBC video sites gives me a similar message, and links me to the same site.

I follow the download instructions, closing all other browsers, etc. I’m informed that the download was installed successfully, and I reboot after. But I continually am unable to view the videos on IE from these sites.

I am able to view videos from a few other sites, such as my local newspaper.

I’ve done no new program installation, etc recently. No new viruses, and so forth.

I can access Youtube & MSNBC just fine on my Mozilla Firefox browser.

I’m running Windows XP on an old Pentium 4

Advice? (other than making Firefox my default browser, which I may well do.)

Thanks

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What version of IE do you have?

It might be time to update to a newer version if you don’t have any specific Internet applications you run that require the older version. IE7 is actually pretty good overall.

Skipping this more drastic step, you should unistall the Adove Flash Player, reboot and then re-intall it.

Jim

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You are sure that JavaScript is enabled?

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Actually, I have a question about this. I have evidence from a number of websites that I do not have JavaScript enabled on my laptop. (The one I’m using to type this message.) Several times I’ve gotten messages to the effect that “You must have JavaScript turned on to view this site.” Yet, I cannot find the switch to turn it on, and I’ve looked everywhere in Tools->Internet Options. Running IE 7.

So how do you turn it on?

Ed

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Tools|Internet options|Security|Custom level|Active scripting|enable.

IE7 likes to hide stuff in weird places.

6

I believe that you need to uninstall Flash and then re-install it from the Adobe site - apparantly this version of Flash doesn’t do the update too well…

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:wink:

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thanks all, I’ll implement this info when I get home tonight.

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Can I piggyback on this question please?

I have this problem using Firefox. (Version 2.0.0.14). Had it for several weeks now.

I’ve tried uninstalling Flash Player and reinstalling. That didn’t work. In fact, I don’t honestly think Flash player uninstalled last time.

Advice (other than “use IE”) please. I’m not going to use IE unless it’s important.

10

I think I read somewhere that YouTube changed something that caused certain specific versions of the plugin to stop working, updating which wouldn’t seem to make any difference.

My point being, it was YouTube that changed.

Maybe.

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You wrote that you don’t think it uninstalled.

You might need to follow these instructions from Adobe:

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Thanks. I might try that later this evening.

However, before I saw that I uninstalled Adobe Reader, thinking that might be preventing the uninstallation. When, a few minutes later, I loaded a page with a flash player in, it refused to run until I reinstalled Flash Player.

Maybe I need to turn Javascript on, but don’t know where to look in Firefox. Any idea?

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I used to have this problem and determined that Norton Internet Security was causing it, so I got rid of Norton.

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Tools / Options / Content / Enable Javascript

15

Jim, that worked beautifully for me!

Nai haryuvalyë melwa rë!

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Happy to Help

Gelir na thaed

17

Update to Firefox 3

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I had the same problem, and it ended up I had somehow picked up Google’s “web accelerator”. This changed my javascript setting. I deleted that and the problem went away.

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Strangely, that still doesn’t allow JavaScript to work on this computer.

Ed