Firefox sucking for Videos

[fustercluck]

It seems like Firefox has always had troubles playing in-browser videos. Compatibility issues i guess. I've tried the "Open this page in IE" and "IE Tab" extensions in the past, and they always screw up firefox and it freezes and errors out so everything I was doing is gone. It's annoying. FF is my browser of choice, so I'm not going to switch to something else.

 

[Ronstang]

If my FF 2.0 tries to open a Break.com video it crashes every time. I have no idea why.

 

[TheChort]

I get the same problem sometimes too
fortunately, the major sites like youtube and video google are OK for me, but every once in a while, some random video site will shut down FF, and I won't even get the "Send Error Report" box.

edit: an embedded Flash video has yet to crash my FF though

 

[Kanalua]

Originally posted by: Ronstang
If my FF 2.0 tries to open a Break.com video it crashes every time. I have no idea why.

Same here...open Break.com vid -> crash!

 

[Duddy]

I just switched to IE7 because of that crap. Now I'm in embedded video heaven.

 

[ethebubbeth]

interesting... no problems trying to open anything at break.com on my end. I'm running FF2.0 and have been carting around the same profile for a while ). i must be lucky as hell or something.

i wonder how much of people's FF woes come from an abundance of extensions... i don't run very many.

 

[alexjohnson16]

I used to have a ton of problems with this, and in at least my case, I went and updated all my extensions and that seemed to fix it.

That might help?

 

[CravenTacos]

no issues with 1.5 or 2.0, of course i have extensions out the a$$....grease monkey, adblock plus, flashblock, media connectivity, RIP, nuke anything, gmail manager, etc.. i have had issues with some themes however crashing windows, but the default/most popular ones work fine

 

[Mucho]

I am using FF 2 no problem here as well.

 

[iamaelephant]

My FF2.0 works on every video site I've ever thrown at it.

 

[ForumMaster]

Opera FTW. haven't met an embedded video that didn't work. Opera FTW!

 

[SirChadwick]

Yea, FF sucks for the pr0n vids.

 

[ethebubbeth]

Originally posted by: SirChadwick
Yea, FF sucks for the pr0n vids.

HAHAHAHA, and that seems to be what sways everyone's opinions about browsers the most :laugh:

 

[MaxDepth]

If you loaded FF 2.0 from scratch, you will get issues with the latest Flash plug-in. It is a major issue with Linux distros.
I have problems so I reinstalled 1.5. No issues.

 

[DivideBYZero]

1.5.08 - No problems with ANY embedded video.