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youtube not working on basilik on windows
Posted: 2018-04-13, 21:40
by ianas
I recently found out I can't play any youtube videos on Basilisks
I tried youtube in safe mode without any addons (thinking it might be an addon issue) but all I get on youtube is a blank page both Firefox and IE work fine
this is what Basilisk gets
using Basilisk 55.0.2018.03.21 64bit on win7
can I get a confirmation that this isn't just me (as google does have local servers it could be my local google acting up)
Re: youtube not working on basilik on windows
Posted: 2018-04-13, 21:53
by coffeebreak
YouTube videos play for me. (Basilisk-2018.03.21, Win 7 x86)
Re: youtube not working on basilik on windows
Posted: 2018-04-13, 22:12
by ianas
well it's seams broken for me I even tried with a US proxy youtube videos just don't load in Basilisk for me I don't know why
https://imgur.com/a/TPEH7
Re: youtube not working on basilik on windows
Posted: 2018-04-13, 22:20
by ianas
I found the culprit
to get the new dark youtube layout I had the preference
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general.useragent.override.youtube.com
set to
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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:55.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/55.0
edit
nope I had a Firefox window open and opened youtube video in it by mistake and well youtube works in FF not in Basilisk
Re: youtube not working on basilik on windows
Posted: 2018-04-13, 23:06
by coffeebreak
ianas wrote:to get the new dark youtube layout I had the preference
I'm not using any user agent override for YT.
Here's what I get for that
video...
Have you tried a new profile?
Re: youtube not working on basilik on windows
Posted: 2018-04-13, 23:24
by ianas
my fault I've accidentally turned off javascript re-enabaling it fixes youtube
tanks guys
Re: youtube not working on basilik on windows
Posted: 2018-04-14, 13:45
by Moonchild
ianas wrote:my fault I've accidentally turned off javascript re-enabaling it fixes youtube
tanks guys
And this is exactly why I'd prefer to remove that pref.
Re: youtube not working on basilik on windows
Posted: 2018-04-15, 00:42
by ianas
the thing is I use the prefbar addon and I sometimes "accidentally" disable javascript the thing that confused me was that javascript was disabled in safe mode too my understanding was that in safe mode user prefs wore ignored
I'd also give part of the blame to google I was using 2 browsers at the time and when I tried uploading an image on imgur it warned me javascript is off youtube said nothing :/
it was basically my fault for not seeing the checkbox but if it is possible maybe in safe mode user set preferences should be ignored?
Re: youtube not working on basilik on windows
Posted: 2018-04-15, 03:45
by coffeebreak
ianas wrote:the thing that confused me was that javascript was disabled in safe mode too my understanding was that in safe mode user prefs wore ignored
Safe mode does not disable javascript - it just disables the
Just-in-time (JIT) JavaScript compiler.
(Wikipedia:
Just-in-time compilation)
Secondly, custom user prefs are
not "ignored" in safe mode, on the contrary,
they are retained.
So the custom preference you created when you disabled javascript (unchecked the PrefBar box) persisted in safe mode.