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resikel
10-25-2011, 12:30 AM
The past couple weeks I've been getting (randomly) Youtube videos auto-playing on me when I hit the Home page.

It's weird and annoying. Anyone else getting this?

PS. I'm on Windows 7 64-bit using FireFox 3.6.12 if that helps.
Krispy
10-25-2011, 12:38 AM
Using a standards compliant browser might help. Does Chrome have the same trouble?
Hawkzombie
10-25-2011, 12:44 AM
Holy crap...I'm running Firefox 7.0.1...when the hell did that happen?! Last I thought I was just doing the beta for 4.

EDIT: I also do not have this problem. So it might just be the version of your FF.
resikel
10-25-2011, 12:48 AM
Are you saying that FireFox is not a standard compliant browser and Chrome is?

PS. I have no desire to use Chrome.
resikel
10-25-2011, 12:53 AM
Holy crap...I'm running Firefox 7.0.1...when the hell did that happen?! Last I thought I was just doing the beta for 4.

EDIT: I also do not have this problem. So it might just be the version of your FF.

I was just on FireFox's page and saw that, too! 7.0.1 WTF.

And I was thinking that I might have to upgrade but it's weird that I had no problem in the past. Had 3.6.12 since released...(probably something Youtube did with all of their recent updates on their player perhaps.)
Hawkzombie
10-25-2011, 12:56 AM
Could be...I still dunno when it happened. I kept auto accepting the updates for Firefox, but I had no idea it was full on new versions. I just assumed it was little things, like 4.0.35 or some crap.
Krispy
10-25-2011, 12:57 AM
I'm saying that 3.6.12 is not standards compliant. It was, say, three year ago (mostly), but these days the web has transcended ye old Firefox.

Edit: Though I just checked and Mozilla still supports 3.6. You should try updating to the latest 3.6 which I think is 3.6.23.
Krispy
10-25-2011, 12:58 AM
Could be...I still dunno when it happened. I kept auto accepting the updates for Firefox, but I had no idea it was full on new versions. I just assumed it was little things, like 4.0.35 or some crap.

You can thank Chrome for the release race.
resikel
10-25-2011, 01:13 AM
I'm saying that 3.6.12 is not standards compliant. It was, say, three year ago (mostly), but these days the web has transcended ye old Firefox.

Ah yes. HTML5 and CSS3 and whatnot. I doubt that COG is using any of that. But I said previously, it's probably Youtube (in combination with my old browser version) that's the culprit and not COG.

Did you know that DEC 2010, FF had 43.5% of the market and FF3.6 was about 84% of that 43.5%? I think that's why I haven't upgraded because that was the majority of the user base.

As of SEPT 2011, FF3.6 is down to 23% of 39.7% market. Looks like FF6 is the most popular choice with 56% of 39.7% market.
resikel
10-25-2011, 01:21 AM
The upgrade cycles for Chrome and Firefox are ridiculous.
Krispy
10-25-2011, 01:22 AM
I guarantee that most of those unupgraded browsers are at institutions like libraries and schools, as was the case with the old IE 6.5 statistics.
resikel
10-25-2011, 01:37 AM
A while back, I read that India had a huge IE 6 user base.

Anyways, I just updated my Flash player to the latest version 11.0.1.152. I was at 10.x.

Going to test this out for the next week to see if the autoplay happens again. If it does then I'll jump on to FireFox 6.0.2
Cactaur
10-25-2011, 01:54 AM
Install Flashblock. Speeds up your overall page loading time too.
resikel
10-25-2011, 02:20 AM
Install Flashblock. Speeds up your overall page loading time too.

I use AdblockPlus. That shit even blocks the ads within Youtube videos.
resikel
10-26-2011, 02:14 AM
Well fuck. ALL of the Youtube videos just autoplayed on me so I guess it's not the Flash plugin.