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Google Zeitgeist 2013: black box. The video doesn't load for me on Firefox. It is probably just a bug and will be fixed but it coincidentally prints the correc

by eamsen 13y ago

Google Zeitgeist 2013: black box. The video doesn't load for me on Firefox. It is probably just a bug and will be fixed but it coincidentally prints the correct picture of Google's current stance on browser compatibility. Anyone else thinks that the silent conversion tactics are slowly becoming more obvious?

yapcguy 13y ago
Consider yourself fortunate you can't watch the video. It's exactly the kind of maudlin crap we have come to expect from politically correct tech companies.
brokenparser 13y ago
The video appears to be an mp4 (the network monitor says so) and it should work fine (it does here). Please ensure you have the latest FF version, available from https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/ (in case the update fails).
- eamsen 13y ago
  I have Firefox 26.0 installed, it still fails on both Windows 7 and Ubuntu 13.10 (64 bit both).
  - brokenparser 13y ago
    Can't help you with Windows, but I'm interested to see what happens under Ubuntu. It's on my todo list for tomorrow (by date, not by priority).
    - brokenparser 13y ago
      It appears to work just fine in FF26 under Ubuntu 3.10 without anything extra installed. Have you tried turning it off and on? Try a new profile (firefox -profileManager) or Restart with Add-ons Disabled (help menu), or perhaps it was just a fluke. Could not reproduce (relevant XKCD: http://xkcd.com/583/ http://xkcd.com/583/ ).
      - brokenparser 13y ago
        That should've been 13.10, too late to edit :(
dingaling 13y ago
Flashblock catches it for me in FF25, the video is actually https://www.youtube.com/embed/Lv-sY_z8MNs https://www.youtube.com/embed/Lv-sY_z8MNs Perhaps you don't have Flash installed, you lucky thing.
- eamsen 13y ago
  Flash is installed, no blocking add-ons were used. For that matter, I have disabled all other add-ons, that could be interfering and still get the same result. It could be a flash (64 bit) issue. Also, that's not the video that would show for me, because of localization (Germany). Despite my preference for the English language and google.com over google.de, Google tries to show me this video instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hVwx13k1QM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hVwx13k1QM .

by eamsen 13y ago

yapcguy 13y ago

Consider yourself fortunate you can't watch the video. It's exactly the kind of maudlin crap we have come to expect from politically correct tech companies.

brokenparser 13y ago

The video appears to be an mp4 (the network monitor says so) and it should work fine (it does here). Please ensure you have the latest FF version, available from https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/ (in case the update fails).

eamsen 13y ago
I have Firefox 26.0 installed, it still fails on both Windows 7 and Ubuntu 13.10 (64 bit both).
- brokenparser 13y ago
  Can't help you with Windows, but I'm interested to see what happens under Ubuntu. It's on my todo list for tomorrow (by date, not by priority).
  - brokenparser 13y ago
    It appears to work just fine in FF26 under Ubuntu 3.10 without anything extra installed. Have you tried turning it off and on? Try a new profile (firefox -profileManager) or Restart with Add-ons Disabled (help menu), or perhaps it was just a fluke. Could not reproduce (relevant XKCD: http://xkcd.com/583/ http://xkcd.com/583/ ).
    - brokenparser 13y ago
      That should've been 13.10, too late to edit :(

dingaling 13y ago

Flashblock catches it for me in FF25, the video is actually https://www.youtube.com/embed/Lv-sY_z8MNs https://www.youtube.com/embed/Lv-sY_z8MNs Perhaps you don't have Flash installed, you lucky thing.

eamsen 13y ago
Flash is installed, no blocking add-ons were used. For that matter, I have disabled all other add-ons, that could be interfering and still get the same result. It could be a flash (64 bit) issue. Also, that's not the video that would show for me, because of localization (Germany). Despite my preference for the English language and google.com over google.de, Google tries to show me this video instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hVwx13k1QM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hVwx13k1QM .