Re: Upcoming Upgrade
Reply #104 –
@Frenzie The FIRST & the SECOND showed an image, & when the play is pressed they play the video. [...] The THIRD & the FOURTH showed no image at all (Blue Box), & when the page stopped loading both came up as TIMED OUT. When loading if I right click, I get my Browser context menu, as opposed to an Adobe Flash Player Context Menu. When hovered I see nothing...no youtube URL.

That means I know what's happening, but I don't know why. You should presumably also get a timeout if you simply browse to http://youtube.com (as opposed to http://www.youtube.com). Normally youtube.com would just silently redirect to www.youtube.com, but it seems that in your case for some reason it does not. I'd suspect an extension like adblock or noscript, except obviously it's happening in all browsers.
@Frenzie It's not a Extension (addon). I've used 2 browsers to prove this.....Pale Moon v36 (which BTW no longer uses Gecko), & Firefox v45.
Ive installed them both fresh, & in their full version, which I don't normally use....I always use portable versions if possible for personal & security reasons.
Now,
both are pristine, with absolutely no addons (extensions).
When I type in
http://youtube.com & enter after about 15 seconds or so I get a timeout....
on both....& when I type in & enter
http://www.youtube.com it instantaneously opens the youtube website
on both. I've even gone so far as shutting down my firewall completely, & my test results were exactly the same.
I don't know if these tests prove anything new for you, but if it's ok with you, I'd appreciate using the Video Tag for posting videos, as it works perfectly.
I don't know if this causes you any undo security risks, & if it does, well what needs to be done is, as always, remains completely your decision, but if it doesn't cause undo risk, I'd sincerely hope you'd keep the status quo regarding the Video Tag.
Thanks again, for all your efforts & time in our behalf.....