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Embedded Youtube video doesn't play,only sound playing

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On this site http://www.worldscienceu.com/ when I click to watch a video[it's a youtube video(embedded)] ,the sound is normal,but I only see a black box.My flash player is up-to-date,so is everything else.

PS. It's ok on chrome....but I want Aurora!!

On this site http://www.worldscienceu.com/ when I click to watch a video[it's a youtube video(embedded)] ,the sound is normal,but I only see a black box.My flash player is up-to-date,so is everything else. PS. It's ok on chrome....but I want Aurora!!

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Hi, I really appreciate your question, you can try Aurora and download it from here

On beta the embedded sites worked when I tested it. What I am wondering is did you try to disable flash acceleration or hardware acceleration on the computer?

Some problems with Flash video playback can be resolved by disabling hardware acceleration in your Flash Player settings. (See this article for more information on using the Flash plugin in Firefox).

To disable hardware acceleration in Flash Player:

  1. Go to this Adobe Flash Player Help page.
  2. Right-click on the Flash Player logo on that page.
  3. Click on Settings in the context menu. The Adobe Flash Player Settings screen will open.
  4. Click on the icon at the bottom-left of the Adobe Flash Player Settings window to open the Display panel.

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  5. Remove the check mark from Enable hardware acceleration.
  6. Click Close to close the Adobe Flash Player Settings Window.
  7. Restart Firefox.

This Flash Player Help - Display Settings page has more information on Flash Player hardware acceleration, if you're interested.

Does this solve the problem? Let us know.

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You appear to be already running an Aurora 29.0a2 build according to the System Details List.

Does this only happen with the Aurora version and do other Firefox versions like the current release (27.0.1) work?


You can remove all data stored in Firefox from a specific domain via "Forget About This Site" in the right-click context menu of an history entry ("History > Show All History" or "View > Sidebar > History") or via the about:permissions page.

Using "Forget About This Site" will remove all data stored in Firefox from that domain like bookmarks, cookies, passwords, cache, history, and exceptions, so be cautious and if you have a password or other data from that domain that you do not want to lose then make sure to backup this data or make a note.

You can't recover from this 'forget' unless you have a backup of the involved files.

It doesn't have any lasting effect, so if you revisit such a 'forgotten' website then data from that website will be saved once again.


Create a new profile as a test to check if your current profile is causing the problem.

See "Creating a profile":

If the new profile works then you can transfer some files from an existing profile to the new profile, but be cautious not to copy corrupted files to avoid carrying over the problem

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I had it disabled,so no,I'm afraid it doesn't solve it :/

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Are there any errors about this in the Browser Console or the Web Console (Firefox/Tools > Web Developer)?

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It says this : << Error: Permission denied to access property 'toString' >>