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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Strange issue with YouTube not working at all in some browsers
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:22:42
Message-Id: 200908011821.18240.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Strange issue with YouTube not working at all in some browsers by Paul Hartman
1 On Saturday 01 August 2009 16:53:08 Paul Hartman wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > For some reason, YouTube doesn't work for me in some web browsers. It
5 > acts like the hostname is not found. When I do host "www.youtube.com"
6 > lookups and tcptraceroute to port 80 and everything else I have tried
7 > to diagnose it seems to work just fine. I'm not using a proxy, I don't
8 > have youtube in my hosts file, and I haven't encountered this problem
9 > with any other website, including all of Google's other sites which I
10 > use frequently. I'm totally baffled.
11 >
12 > Loads perfectly fine in:
13 > lynx
14 > links (text and graphical mode)
15 > Opera
16 >
17 > Does not load at all in:
18 > Seamonkey
19 > Konqueror
20 > Firefox
21
22 Those three browsers can all use the same plugins, I'm not sure about the
23 first three. I'd be checking for stuff that works like AdBlock. I especially
24 know of extensions that block YouTube
25
26 --
27 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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Re: [gentoo-user] Strange issue with YouTube not working at all in some browsers Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>