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totolanio
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Firefox 57 quantum videos are not loading

#1 Post by totolanio »

Hello,

Since I upgraded firefox to this horrible quantum, I can't load videos. The grey bar fills so it downloads it, but then it never starts and stays in a "pause" mode forever.

I was using firefox for a long time on lxtahrpup and it just updated automatically with the builtin browser update system.

I'm using a 2006 computer too.

What can I do?


PS: I looked for alternatives and didn't find anythingfor old slow computer in 32-bit
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#3 Post by Mike Walsh »

Hi, totolanio.

You could always do what I've done. I'm not a Firefox fan by any means, and have always preferred the Chromium-based browsers.....but I'm once again using Firefox as my 'back-up' browser; this time, FF52esr.

Having got the pulseaudio problem out of the way, I put together a .pet of this one for somebody else on the Forums just the other day. It includes Oscar's apulse 'fix' for the audio; sound works perfectly, and NetFlix plays back in it without any problems. I'm running this in multiple Pups from a single, remote, sym-linked 'install' of FF. Admittedly, I haven't yet tried it with YouTube.....I very rarely visit the site, TBH.

My box is from 2004.....

You can find the .pet here, if you're interested:-

http://www.mediafire.com/file/8x5c11n3v ... 52-esr.pet

Entirely up to you, of course. This version is one of the 'extended support releases'; it will be 'safe' until at least July 2018, when it will automatically update to the next ESR version.....probably based on FF59.


Mike. :wink:

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Re: Firefox 57 quantum videos are not loading

#4 Post by gjuhasz »

totolanio wrote:I looked for alternatives and didn't find anything for old slow computer in 32-bit
Try Puli 6.1.1

32-bit beta is announced at http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... &start=235 (you can test it if you install its 6.1.0 predecessor on a pendriva and overwrite the main files with their counterparts from the 6.1.1 diff fileset).
  • - Latest iron, slimjet, vivaldi and firefox (e.g., FF59.x alpha) browsers are OK.
    - Youtube OK (video + sound).
    - Web skype OK (opens from iron browser).

Have fun!

Regards,

gjuhasz

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#5 Post by totolanio »

I already use FF ESR but that's not a real solution because it will not work in few months and the problem will be the same :(

And I don't think changing to another puppy distrib will solve the problem, right?
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#6 Post by dancytron »

totolanio wrote:I already use FF ESR but that's not a real solution because it will not work in few months and the problem will be the same :(

And I don't think changing to another puppy distrib will solve the problem, right?
Run this page and tell us what you get.

https://www.youtube.com/html5

What pages are the problem? You might need to install flash player for some.

Also, look for the shield emblem in the url line. It turns off some of what firefox thinks are bad tracking sites. It broke CBS News video for me until I clicked on it and turned it off.

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#7 Post by totolanio »

Hmm I already checked all these simple things.

The page says everything is fine

Any video doesn't work, it's not related to youtube as I said.

And no shield thing


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#8 Post by totolanio »

Up in case someone can help, still have no clues on what to do
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#9 Post by OscarTalks »

There are various threads about videos and sound in Firefox Quantum dotted around on the forum. One example here http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... &start=113
You probably just need to make sure the 3 apulse libs are installed. I suggest putting these inside the firefox directory which may be under /usr/lib or /opt
http://smokey01.com/OscarTalks
Then relax the sandbox security setting in about:config. Modify from 3 to 2 and add the whitelist settings or modify down to 0 and you should not need to do the whitelist changes at all.
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#10 Post by RetroTechGuy »

Mike Walsh wrote:Hi, totolanio.

You could always do what I've done. I'm not a Firefox fan by any means, and have always preferred the Chromium-based browsers.....but I'm once again using Firefox as my 'back-up' browser; this time, FF52esr.

Having got the pulseaudio problem out of the way, I put together a .pet of this one for somebody else on the Forums just the other day. It includes Oscar's apulse 'fix' for the audio; sound works perfectly, and NetFlix plays back in it without any problems. I'm running this in multiple Pups from a single, remote, sym-linked 'install' of FF. Admittedly, I haven't yet tried it with YouTube.....I very rarely visit the site, TBH.

My box is from 2004.....

You can find the .pet here, if you're interested:-

http://www.mediafire.com/file/8x5c11n3v ... 52-esr.pet

Entirely up to you, of course. This version is one of the 'extended support releases'; it will be 'safe' until at least July 2018, when it will automatically update to the next ESR version.....probably based on FF59.


Mike. :wink:
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Re: Firefox 57 quantum videos are not loading

#11 Post by Moose On The Loose »

totolanio wrote:Hello,

Since I upgraded firefox to this horrible quantum, I can't load videos. The grey bar fills so it downloads it, but then it never starts and stays in a "pause" mode forever.
<short rant>
If version N works and version N+M doesn't work where M is a positive number, (N+M) is NOT an upgrade from N
</short rant>

I am using seamonkey 2.46.

Many videos work. It appears that the ones that don't are using some quirky violation of the HTML standards. Often Chrome based browsers will assume different things than Mozilla browsers assume when trying to work around mistakes in the page.

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#12 Post by totolanio »

OscarTalks wrote:There are various threads about videos and sound in Firefox Quantum dotted around on the forum. One example here http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... &start=113
You probably just need to make sure the 3 apulse libs are installed. I suggest putting these inside the firefox directory which may be under /usr/lib or /opt
http://smokey01.com/OscarTalks
Then relax the sandbox security setting in about:config. Modify from 3 to 2 and add the whitelist settings or modify down to 0 and you should not need to do the whitelist changes at all.
Oscar, your solution solved my problem! As usual!


BUT I decided to try to find what was the exact source of the problem and I'm not sure.

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VIDEO:
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With:

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security.sandbox.content.level;3
The video never starts.

With:

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security.sandbox.content.level;2
security.sandbox.content.read_path_whitelist;/dev/snd/
security.sandbox.content.syscall_whitelist;53
security.sandbox.content.write_path_whitelist;/dev/snd/
The video never starts.

So I suppose I didn't whitelist the right path, but I don't know which one it is.

With:

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security.sandbox.content.level;1
security.sandbox.content.read_path_whitelist;/dev/snd/
security.sandbox.content.syscall_whitelist;53
security.sandbox.content.write_path_whitelist;/dev/snd/
The video never starts.

With:

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security.sandbox.content.level = 0
It works perfectly fine.

Is it a real security concern to have it set to 0?


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AUDIO :
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I had apulse-0.1.8-i686-wz.pet installed, but I removed it and updated to 0.1.10 and it solved the audio missing from videos.
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#13 Post by trelu »

I had the exact same problem and have used OscarTalk's solution to fix it. However, like totolanio, I've only been able to get it to work with the sandbox level on 0. The level 1 and 2 whitelist settings don't work.
totolanio wrote: With:

Code: Select all

security.sandbox.content.level = 0
It works perfectly fine.

Is it a real security concern to have it set to 0?
I was wondering this too.

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