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Youtube.com - not loading

Unread post by ari88 » 2023-01-28, 06:09

The website shows up as blank, for some reason.

Youtube videos still play in Palemoon (for example, if embedded on other websites) and individual video youtube links work (the video loads and plays), but the rest of the website itself does not load.

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Timestamp: 28/01/23 15:32:28
Error: NS_BINDING_ABORTED: Component returned failure code: 0x804b0002 (NS_BINDING_ABORTED) [nsIStreamListener.onDataAvailable]
Source File: resource://gre/modules/WebRequest.jsm
Line: 353
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Re: Youtube.com - not loading

Unread post by gepus » 2023-01-28, 09:18

Installed extensions?
Test with a clean profile.

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Re: Youtube.com - not loading

Unread post by Moonchild » 2023-01-28, 11:53

The blank UI you've shown happens if your useragent string makes youtube think you are one of the latest iterations of Firefox or Chrome, using Google WebComponents.
Please check if you're overriding the UA string with something that might cause this.
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Re: Youtube.com - not loading

Unread post by ari88 » 2023-01-29, 04:18

gepus wrote:
2023-01-28, 09:18
Installed extensions?
Test with a clean profile.
Thanks for this tip - youtube loads just fine in a clean profile. So definitely something I modified (see my reply below).

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Re: Youtube.com - not loading

Unread post by ari88 » 2023-01-29, 04:30

Moonchild wrote:
2023-01-28, 11:53
The blank UI you've shown happens if your useragent string makes youtube think you are one of the latest iterations of Firefox or Chrome, using Google WebComponents.
Please check if you're overriding the UA string with something that might cause this.
Thank you for this. This override setting was introduced by me when I was trying to bypass the "Your Browser Is No Longer Supported" issue by setting dom.webcomponents.enabled to true.

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I'm honestly not sure how to remedy this without setting dom.webcomponents.enabled to false. I don't want to have to keep toggling dom.webcomponents.enabled whenever I run into "Your Browser Is No Longer Supported". Is there a way to selectively remove/modify Youtube's override without setting dom.webcomponents.enabled to false?

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Re: Youtube.com - not loading

Unread post by moonbat » 2023-01-29, 04:32

ari88 wrote:
2023-01-29, 04:30
Is there a way to selectively remove/modify Youtube's override without setting dom.webcomponents.enabled to false?
No, web components is a global component of the browser, not something that can be toggled per website. You can use this extension to easily toggle it as required without having to go into about:config each time.
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Re: Youtube.com - not loading

Unread post by ari88 » 2023-01-29, 04:45

moonbat wrote:
2023-01-29, 04:32
ari88 wrote:
2023-01-29, 04:30
Is there a way to selectively remove/modify Youtube's override without setting dom.webcomponents.enabled to false?
No, web components is a global component of the browser, not something that can be toggled per website. You can use this extension to easily toggle it as required without having to go into about:config each time.
Thanks - installed the extension. Will we ever be rid of this web components issue?

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Re: Youtube.com - not loading

Unread post by moonbat » 2023-01-29, 10:30

It's a complex feature to implement in Pale Moon and the toggle only affects a partial implementation that's currently there. You need to turn it on only when using sites that may need it, else it will break other sites if kept on (because keeping it on means the browser claims to support a feature completely that it actually doesn't yet.)
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