407280 - Youtube videos embedded in other websites won't play correctly

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[jennifer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11

When I try to view embedded youtube videos in any websites, it buffers extremely slow -so slow that the video stops about every 10 seconds or so. When it gets halfway to 3/4 of the way through the video, the red progress bar on the video starts zipping back and forth without stopping, the video stops playing, and FF freezes for a few seconds. Note that the problem does not occur in IE. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to any website that contains an embedded youtube video
2. press the play button on the embedded video

Actual Results:  
slow buffering, video stops and starts, red progress bar moves quickly back and forth about 1/2 to 3/4 way through the video, video stops, FF freezes for a short period of time

Expected Results:  
the video should buffer at a normal rate of speed, the video should play all the way through without stopping and starting all the time, the video progress bar should continue at a normal pace through the end of the video, and FF should not freeze.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

this should work peachy with current versions of thunderbird and flash player. still see this in v3?  If not please close with resolution set to WORKSFORME. 

not critical - see
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html#importance

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.x or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.