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When I try to open a YouTube video, the browser repeatedly (and endlessly) opens and closes a couple of tabs.

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When I try to open a YouTube video, the browser repeatedly (and endlessly) opens and closes a couple of tabs. As you can imagine, the video never displays. Opening the tab in a private window works. I do have the YouTube container installed, so I expect that has something to do with it, but I don't know for certain. In any case, this certainly isn't expected to functionality.

Has anyone seen this before, and know what causes it?

When I try to open a YouTube video, the browser repeatedly (and endlessly) opens and closes a couple of tabs. As you can imagine, the video never displays. Opening the tab in a private window works. I do have the YouTube container installed, so I expect that has something to do with it, but I don't know for certain. In any case, this certainly isn't expected to functionality. Has anyone seen this before, and know what causes it?

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Disabled the YouTube container, and the problem went away, so it's either something wrong with the container itself, or a bad interaction with another plugin.

Is this a known issue with the container add-on?

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Ok, so I was being lazy... I did a little more digging and found out that my presumption was wrong. I had thought this was a plugin from Mozilla, but it turns out to be something another user forked from the Facebook plugin. And it hasn't been maintained in two years. Into the bit-bucket it goes...