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LuvLoogie

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4. Also, most video content should not require you to download

Reply to womanofthehills (Original post)

Mon Nov 13, 2017, 02:22 AM

Nov 2017

a special video player, or flash player update. If you ever see that flash player upgrade needed (even though it's probably not needed) go straight to the Adobe site and download flash player, but be careful to unchecked any concurrent downloads of McCaffee or whatever.

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I downloaded what I thought was a video viewer and now Firefox has been taken over by search.hmynews [View all] womanofthehills Nov 2017 OP

You are using Firefox and not Safari on Mac? unc70 Nov 2017 #1

Yes womanofthehills Nov 2017 #6

This link should help True Dough Nov 2017 #2

Thanks - I'll try!! womanofthehills Nov 2017 #8

Probably some plug in or add on, along with that site LuvLoogie Nov 2017 #3

Also, most video content should not require you to download LuvLoogie Nov 2017 #4

You have my sympathy. Every so often I've downloaded something only to find PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2017 #5

It was a dumb thing for me to do - I was on Randi Rhodes page and it looked like it was part womanofthehills Nov 2017 #7