bug? youtube embed disappeared

February 18, 2010 5:00 PM

The embedded youtube arrow thingy has disappeared for me.

I thiought it was due to my installing and activating plutor's greasemonkey script, since that's the last thing I did before noticing the loss, so I mailed him to tell him, but after an email exchange that led me to discover that it's not related to that. The only other significant change I've made recently is upgrading to firefox 3.6, I suspect that must be the culprit.

Plutor asked if I had any errors reported via the error console. No errors per se, but several warnings.

posted by wilful to Bugs at 5:00 PM (60 comments total)

Have you tried resaving your preferences? Click "Preferences" at the top of the page, make sure "Display YouTube Video inline?" is checked and click save. See if that restores it for you.
posted by pb (staff) at 5:02 PM on February 18, 2010

You've checked your preferences via the link in the top bar, right? "Display YouTube Video inline?" is checked?
posted by chudmonkey at 5:02 PM on February 18, 2010

hey, I have the same problem wilful. I'd installed flash three or four times before I decided that it had to be something else. When I get home to my laptop I'll see if the preferences got screwy.
posted by Think_Long at 5:12 PM on February 18, 2010

I have also just upgraded firefox and installed plutor's script recently, so I can't say which one did the deed.
posted by Think_Long at 5:18 PM on February 18, 2010

I dind't change my preferences at any time.

So i'll just go and check that...
posted by wilful at 5:29 PM on February 18, 2010

yep, the little box is still checked.
posted by wilful at 5:29 PM on February 18, 2010

I didn't realise the inline embed was maybe flash? and flashblock could have been blocking it? But no, that's not it, still not there with flashblock disabled.
posted by wilful at 5:34 PM on February 18, 2010

If you disable all of your extensions, does the problem persist?
posted by box at 6:01 PM on February 18, 2010

wilful: “yep, the little box is still checked.”

But that doesn't matter. Preferences are computer-specific and not updated until you click 'save' at the bottom of preferences. On this computer, for examples, I can see favorite counts, because it is my roommate's computer; if I click over to my preferences, it will say "don't show favorite counts," even though I can see favorite counts, because that's the preference set on this computer; and it won't stop showing preferences until I click 'save' on the preferences page.

That's why pb suggested clicking save; I don't know if you've already done that, but even if your preferences page says 'inline youtube,' you need to click 'save' in order to make sure those preferences are actually enabled.
posted by koeselitz at 6:01 PM on February 18, 2010

Oh hey, and: you should see if it's the same in Internet Explorer.
posted by koeselitz at 6:07 PM on February 18, 2010

koeselitz, that fixed it, remarkably.

But note that I've never changed that preference, did upgrading (from 3.5 to 3.6) break that?

I don't know how that works, but I expect the explanation is beyond me.
posted by wilful at 6:14 PM on February 18, 2010

I don't know how that works, but I expect the explanation is beyond me.

It works through cookies on your computer (I think). So when you upgraded your cookies probably got deleted somehow.
posted by kylej at 6:17 PM on February 18, 2010

When you click "save" on your preferences page, MeFi sets a cookie on your browser that says, "show inline youtube links". If for some reason that cookie isn't present, you won't get inline youtube links. There are several reasons the cookie might go away. Maybe you saved preferences at some point in the past without that option checked. Maybe you manually removed cookies at some point. We've even had cases where Firefox reaches some sort of internal cookie maximum and starts randomly dropping cookies. So it's probably impossible to tell why you didn't have the cookie in this case, but clicking "save" resets those display preference cookies so it's a good thing to try if you're having display problems.
posted by pb (staff) at 6:19 PM on February 18, 2010

Once, I thought my bellybutton disappeared like Michael Moorcock's protagonist in "The Golden Barge," but then I remembered I had an inny and not an outy and it was still there.
posted by cjorgensen at 6:45 PM on February 18, 2010

Maybe it was when I also installed Weave immediately after the upgrade, which shares cookies across computers.

Oh well, problem fixed.
posted by wilful at 6:59 PM on February 18, 2010

Oh well, problem fixed.




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posted by The Whelk at 7:10 PM on February 18, 2010 [6 favorites]

I guess I'll go ahead and close this up now.






















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posted by Sys Rq at 8:08 PM on February 18, 2010 [9 favorites]

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posted by The Whelk at 8:27 PM on February 18, 2010

:prays for a sarcasticorn:
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posted by The Whelk at 8:36 PM on February 18, 2010 [2 favorites]

wilful: “I don't know how that works, but I expect the explanation is beyond me.”

Well, what's odd is that there should be absolutely nothing you do to your computer (barring drastic stuff) that would make that happen at all. Even if you changed your preferences (which you didn't) your preferences page shouldn't have had that option checked unless you'd changed them again on another computer. Do you have a different computer you look at Mefi from sometimes?

Of course, even if you do, you haven't changed prefs, so... yeah, I think this is beyond me, too.
posted by koeselitz at 9:26 PM on February 18, 2010

Ah! Weave, probably. Interesting.
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posted by barnacles at 9:55 PM on February 18, 2010 [1 favorite]

HELLO SAILOR
posted by The Whelk at 10:01 PM on February 18, 2010

The Whelk: UNICORN TIME!

I was looking at passport designs today and saw that the British passport has a unicorn on the front, and not just any unicorn, but a unicorn with a crown around its neck. What the fuck, Britain, great or otherwise! I suppose I could Google for information, but sometimes it's better to be puzzled by the world.

Meanwhile, France has an axe on front of theirs, which just goes to show that the French are always a mere breakdown of the established social order away from chopping heads.
posted by Kattullus at 10:02 PM on February 18, 2010 [1 favorite]

a unicorn with a crown around its neck

It's a fancy manacle, used to chain it down. Cannot have these things running around freely.
posted by effbot at 12:58 AM on February 19, 2010

And not a wussy normal unicorn either, but one that can hold its own in a fight with a lion. That's one hardcore unicorn.

(Please can someone record that nursery rhyme for the Mefi Music traditional song challenge? We need more songs about unicorns.)
posted by ZsigE at 2:52 AM on February 19, 2010

Having never really looked at it before (despite being a briton), that unicorn and lion remind me strongly of the bit in the simpsons where santa's little helper and snowball, desperate for attention, learn to walk on their hindlegs and say "we ... love ... you". I don't think that's the look the heraldists of old were aiming for.
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posted by shmegegge at 8:11 AM on February 19, 2010

I'm going to interrupt the wonderful unicorns (and then click my lovely posting unicorn) to ask another question of the inline player. Does it only work on Mefi proper? I posted some YT links on AskMe a while back, and was worried because there was no lovely little arrow. Hopped over to Mefi and there it was. So is it only on the Blue? And I guess a sub question is will it be added to the other subsites as well?
posted by yellowbinder at 8:17 AM on February 19, 2010

Unicorn samurai with questionable swordsmanship skills!
posted by quin at 8:19 AM on February 19, 2010

yellowbinder, yep, it's only on MeFi. No plans to add it to the other sites right now because there just aren't as many youtube videos at the other sites. Here's a past discussion about it. We've always figured that unless there's a compelling reason to add the player (and the problems and overhead that come with it) at the subsites we'll just let it be on MeFi.
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posted by shakespeherian at 9:39 AM on February 19, 2010

Can someone who has the ability (OP? pb?) please tag this post with "unicorns", "asciiart", and maybe even "asciiunicorns"?

WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE METADATA?
posted by ocherdraco at 9:59 AM on February 19, 2010 [1 favorite]

Nobody puts Metadata in the corner.
posted by The Whelk at 10:00 AM on February 19, 2010 [1 favorite]

My inner angry 12 year old tomboy is super furious with me for being as delighted by unicorns as I am right this second.
posted by edbles at 11:09 AM on February 19, 2010

Just remind your inner angry 12 year old tomboy that they are nerdy unicorns made with text on computers.
posted by ocherdraco at 11:43 AM on February 19, 2010 [1 favorite]

I was going to tell her that they are horses with swords on their heads but perhaps the nerdycorn strategy is more believable.
posted by edbles at 12:08 PM on February 19, 2010

Remember, unicorns fight DRAGONS.
posted by The Whelk at 12:21 PM on February 19, 2010

[CITATION NEEDED]
posted by edbles at 12:39 PM on February 19, 2010

I guess I'll go ahead and close this up now.

SO FREAKING TIRED OF THIS JOKE
posted by ook at 1:00 PM on February 19, 2010 [2 favorites]

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posted by cj_ at 1:16 PM on February 19, 2010 [2 favorites]

     
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posted by The Whelk at 1:19 PM on February 19, 2010

Citation.
posted by Kattullus at 1:38 PM on February 19, 2010

i embedded your mom
posted by cortex (staff) at 1:53 PM on February 19, 2010

Kattullus, those are clearly pegasi, not unicorns. There is some overlap, of course, but they are not the same thing.
posted by shakespeherian at 1:55 PM on February 19, 2010

Oops! I linked the wrong picture, I mean to link to this picture (next to each other in the unicorn dragon Google image search result).
posted by Kattullus at 1:59 PM on February 19, 2010 [1 favorite]

I just hope you learned your lesson young man.
posted by shakespeherian at 2:09 PM on February 19, 2010

All this talk of unicorns/ pegasus got me thinking about this thread where got to I wax philosophical about the inherent dangers of using one as a parachute.
posted by quin at 2:13 PM on February 19, 2010

I would like to take this moment to cruelly consume all your weekend free time with the prancing rainbow-filled awesomeness of ROBOT UNICORN ATTACK.
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posted by FishBike at 3:15 PM on February 19, 2010 [3 favorites]

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I eated it. *burp*
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posted by decagon at 6:17 PM on February 19, 2010 [1 favorite]

Okay, so after making that last comment I went out to go meet a friend for coffee and on the way I listened the latest Bugle podcast and Andy Zaltzman quoted Olympic snowboard crosser Graham Watanabe on what it meant to him to be at the Olympics: "Try to imagine Pegasus mating with a unicorn and the creature that they birth. I somehow tame it and ride it into the sky in the clouds and sunshine and rainbows. That's what it feels like."

Heh, I thought, what are the odds of that.

And at that very moment a pink cadillac drove by with a pegasus unicorn painted on the side.

Fucking hell, I thought.

It's almost enough to make a man believe in the Invisible Pink Unicorn.
posted by Kattullus at 7:19 PM on February 19, 2010

How could you imagine a unicorn if there did not exist a perfect Invisible Pink Unicorn, huh?

Only 9,9% tithing required!
posted by ersatz at 4:49 AM on February 20, 2010

Can we just turn this into a thread about how much The Bugle rocks?

_{I am a future hottie from history.}
posted by edbles at 10:38 AM on February 20, 2010

Yes. The Bugle does indeed rock. Of all the things things I've posted to MetaFilter The Bugle may have brought me the most joy.
posted by Kattullus at 4:49 PM on February 20, 2010

I concur.
posted by Sys Rq at 7:57 PM on February 20, 2010