DW Help?

[thefourthvine]

Dear DW people -

I have a weird problem with my reading list, namely: every first embedded video in a post turns into Sesame Street: TJ Counts to 40 by 10s (except with an added apostrophe I can't include because it kills my soul) and every second embedded video in a post turns into a box full of fish that I unfortunately can't link you to.

For a long time - for a really embarrassingly long time - I thought that everyone on my list was just posting the Sesame Street clip and the box of fish, and I thought there must be something deeply awesome about them that I was missing. Because, you know, a lot of times people will post embedded video without enough commentary to make it clear that they don't in fact want you to see Sesame Street and some fish. But recently bravecows posted this, and her text made so little sense with the accompanying "Now here's a song about FORTY!" and, of course, the fish - her "too many dicks" comment is particularly disturbing if you think she's talking about that fish box, as it happens - that I opened her post in a new tab. Where it turned out that she had actually embedded videos that made perfect sense with her text.

I have tried restarting Firefox, rebooting, and clearing my cache. Any other suggestions? I can live with this, but honestly, if I go the rest of my life without thinking a person I greatly admire is singing all day about fish dick even though the fish don't have any music, I will be just that much happier.

(I guess there must be a support thingy somewhere on DW, but I never had any luck with that at ALL on LJ, so I am being avoidant, there. Does anyone actually have personal experience of success with support over here?)

Confused love,
TFV

Comments

[abbylee]

I feel like I need to state that I know this answer because of LJ Support.

It's a firefox bug. You will probably have some luck if you turn placeholders on. But it's a firefox bug with caching and it's a fucking PAIN IN THE NECK.

[abbylee]

(I can give you more details if you want, btw.)

[par_avion]

I use Firefox, with placeholders, and I've never had this happen to me that I can recall. But I also don't click every YT link.

[lilacsigil]

I agree - it's a Firefox bug not a Dreamwidth bug, in my experience. For some reason it happens to me more on LJ than on DW, but it happens on both.

[abbylee]

To clarify, it's *in* Firefox's bug tracker. It's been reported multiple times (not specifically in regard to LJ, but for the same bug on other sites) over the years but it hasn't been fixed.

[lilacsigil]

Oh, yes, I don't have a solution! It's a known bug but not a fixed one.