I don't know how it relates to Firefox, but Camino is currently (v 1.6.8) based on the Mozilla/Gecko 1.8 branch. Camino 2.0 will be based on Mozilla/Gecko 1.9. An interim update is due sometime soon which is supposed to update the included version of Flashblock to 1.5.11. Hopefully that will fix it, and hopefully it happens soon. I can't live without Flashblock.

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Interesting. Camino is based on Mozilla's Gecko. Is it using Firefox v2's old engine? I know Firefox v3 and the newer Flashblock extensions don't have problems. Even SeaMonkey v2 beta 1 has no problems. Must be an old version issue.


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campionidelmondo responded with some really useful information. I don't know anything about SeaMonkey, but my browser, Camino, integrates Flashblock. In other words, it's not a plugin, so I can't update the version myself. I have to wait for them to release the next version of Camino.

Yeah, I forgot to mention Camino. The current version (v 1.6.8) doesn't support whitelisting for Flashblock. I can turn it off entirely, but that's really annoying. Whitelisting is supposed to be available in Camino 2.0, which is due sometime later this year. Camino 1.6.9 is supposed to update the version of Flashblock included to 1.5.11. Hopefully that will get released very soon.

Thanks again for the info. And big thanks for all the work you put into VideoSift! The interface is so much better than it used to be. I really like the functional menu bar at the top. It makes a lot more sense than the old design. One thing though - would it be possible to change it so that you have to click each major category to activate it's submenu? It can be pretty annoying to have them all flashing around when I move the mouse up there for whatever reason. Could that be a user preference?

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I'm curious, what browser is it? Would disabling FlashBlock on VideoSift.com be an option for you?

Edit: lol I guess I should've looked at ant's comment first

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Thanks for the info campioni. Unfortunately, my browser integrates Flashblock (currently verions 1.5.8), so it's not something I can update. I'll just have to wait until they release the next version of the browser.

Thanks for the info campioni. Unfortunately, my browser integrates Flashblock (currently verions 1.5.8), so it's not something I can update. I'll just have to wait until they release the next version of the browser.

campionidelmondo responded with some really useful information. I don't know anything about SeaMonkey, but my browser, Camino, integrates Flashblock. In other words, it's not a plugin, so I can't update the version myself. I have to wait for them to release the next version of Camino.

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Please also mention this in VS v4 issues discussion! I contacted the FlashBlock developer about this as well to see what's up.

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Are you still having problems with FlashBlock on individual video pages? I just noticed that it works fine if the embed is from google and not youtube. Check out this post and let me know if FlashBlock works properly for you on that one. I think it's just a problem with youtube embeds. I'm going to try to find some posts from other hosts to see.

[edit] It's not just YouTube. Vimeo, MySpace, and Hulu don't work, but ComedyCentral does. This is weird.

Videos on post pages do not appear if Flashblock is on. I know this was mentioned earlier, but I don't know if this is being worked on, and I wanted to give an update. It's only with videos from some hosts that this happens. I haven't checked all of the allowed hosts yet, but so far YouTube, CollegeHumor, MySpace, Hulu, TheOnion, and Vimeo don't work, but Google and ComedyCentral embeds work just fine. Also, the hover text for the embed says "about:blank" when it doesn't work.

CollegeHumor posts don't work either.

I'll mention it again in the sift talk post, but lucky didn't seem to care much.

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Please also mention this in VS v4 issues discussion! I contacted the FlashBlock developer about this as well to see what's up.

In reply to this comment by fford:
Are you still having problems with FlashBlock on individual video pages? I just noticed that it works fine if the embed is from google and not youtube. Check out this post and let me know if FlashBlock works properly for you on that one. I think it's just a problem with youtube embeds. I'm going to try to find some posts from other hosts to see.

[edit] It's not just YouTube. Vimeo, MySpace, and Hulu don't work, but ComedyCentral does. This is weird.

dupe: http://www.videosift.com/video/Dog-attacking-his-own-leg

Thanks! Does clicking the unrecommend link affect how other videos are selected for recommendation? Also, I don't know if you saw my comment in the poll that the recommended list is showing dead, discarded and killed videos, which doesn't make much sense.

[edit] Does it have to ask for confirmation for every unrecommend? Can I turn that off?

Are you still having problems with FlashBlock on individual video pages? I just noticed that it works fine if the embed is from google and not youtube. Check out this post and let me know if FlashBlock works properly for you on that one. I think it's just a problem with youtube embeds. I'm going to try to find some posts from other hosts to see.

[edit] It's not just YouTube. Vimeo, MySpace, and Hulu don't work, but ComedyCentral does. This is weird.

"Side note: How do the your personal recommendations look to you? Are videos being recommended that are inline with your interests?"

Not really. About 1 in 10 are good recommendations. Mostly, it looks like it just recommended the most popular videos on the site. It's also included some dead, discarded, and killed videos, which is pretty useless. I like the idea of this feature, but as it is, I doubt I'll use it much.

Yes, "spook" has different meanings depending on the context. The only context I've ever heard it used to describe an intelligence operative is by conspiracy theory nutjobs (X-Files, anyone?), and the only people I've ever heard use it to describe ghosts are very old or dead (in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spook). As a racial epithet, I always associated it with old white southerners, and quantumushroom's grammar strongly suggests that context.

What any of this has to do with the video is beyond me. I just wish I didn't have to get 25 star points to downvote the damn thing.

"I want my doctor to make a lot of money."

I want my doctor to be passionate about being a doctor, not about making lots of money.

I guess your point is more about the difference between downvoting comments and videos. But really, why should someone have to get 25 videos sifted before they can downvote at all?

I voted no, but I like the remove button idea.

Searching is screwed up. I wanted to find all the videos sifted with 10-14 votes and sort them by age, but the search not only messes up the sort order, there's lots of videos with more than 14 votes listed. It also seems unlikely that there are exactly 1000 of them, or is that a limitation of the search?