As a test, you can press my avatar in this comment all you like. Mine just colors my comment background gray.

I fixed the double-video problem, but there's no problem for me in Firefox (v2 and v3.5) on 3 different PCs. What OS are you on?

Windows 7 RC. I dunno what I've installed that craps it up this way.

I'm on 3.5.3 FF.

I forgot about the avatar videos.

Video avatars don't work for me either.

And also there's no way to remove the youtube avatar and go back to not having a video, lucky.

I've never seen one of these either, (Mac/Firefox) or (Windows/IE) so I guess they don't work for me either.
Who is using one? Let us know so we can use it to test and figure out why we can't see it.
Thanks!

All the posts above you use one, sagemind. Try clicking the avatar.

Hadn't seen these yet. Nice feature, can't wait till I have my diamond
Though the YouTube status bar at the bottom ruins it a bit. Is there any way to get rid of that?

^Yes, and we actually did that a while back, but then undid it when someone pointed out that without the navigation bar, once it starts playing there's nothing you can do to stop it except reload the page.

Sorry to say I have no idea why it wouldn't work for you in Windows 7. Have you checked your JavaScript error log in Firefox (assuming you have the Web Developer toolbar add-on installed)? If you can find any error info, perhaps that'll give us something to go on.

^maybe you could put a small [X] button over the video avatar which would close it, just like the video previews on the main sift page close without reloading the page.

gwiz, I'm using the exact same setup (Windows 7 RC + FF 3.5.3) and I don't experience any problems regarding the avatar videos. My best guess would be that you've got an addon installed that inferferes with the avatar video code.

You can check your js error console by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+J or by bookmarking this link (tip: tick "Load this bookmark in the sidebar") , but if it really is due to an addon there might not be any indicators in there.

Well, something has changed now at least, not it only makes the avatar itself into a gray box. It's like it won't load the flash or something. I don't really have any addons that should mess with it, but I'll play around with it some more and see what happens. I'll probably try to reinstall the browser too, to clear out any gunk.

I removed my Firefox and reinstalled the 3.5.3 again and that fixed it right up.

My old installation was installed on top of a 3.5 beta, so I think that wonked it a bit. It works now.