SOLVED FIX: Video on loading/ streaming/ playing on facebook (fB) when browsing on only Mozilla Firefox

Hey guys!

So I had a problem that was really bugging me lately! My Mozilla Firefox just couldn't play any video from Facebook (fB) ! It worked on youtube and other sites but the problem just persisted on only Facebook!

I checked out my Google Chrome and the video worked fine (because Chrome has an in-built flash plug in), I could easily stream through Facebook videos using my Google Chrome browser but it didn't work on my Mozilla Firefox browser! Fed up and frustrated, I continuously browse the net for days after days and still couldn't find any single effective solution to solve and permanently fix this nagging problem (imagine the title "the most amazingly cute cat in the world" video appears on my news feed and I cant even play it! Oh, the torment!). I had tried to cleanly uninstall and reinstall my Mozilla Firefox, did the same thing with my Real Player and also my Flash player (Shockwave and Adobe) but the issue stubbornly persisted!

So I Googled:
Flash player not working on facebook
Mozilla Firefox not playing facebook videos 
Videos not loading on facebook
Cannot adjust load space on flash settings on facebook 
My fb videos dont load/ work! 
fb vidoes now streaming, black black screen appears 
problems/ issues with flash, black screen on facebook for videos
Please help me God!!!, my flash is not working on facebook!


and no good effective answer appeared...

After days dragging to weeks trying to fix this damn thing....This fix FINALLY worked for me!!
Heres the article below with effective steps

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"I don't have Win7 but should not matter which windows you have.  Location and values for this *STUPID* top secret config file I am about to refer to should be the same for any version Windows.

In fact, after reviewing your issue again, you might simply be victum of corrupted 'settings.sol' file.  If that is the case you might try using only the first 2 steps in my hack instructions.  After you complete step #2, just delete the 'settings.sol' file, restart your browser, go run a Flash video and Flash Player will see the config file is missing so it will create a nice clean virgin copy from scratch.  Can't hurt to try.
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4566499#4566499

Now what I was about to suggest at first, if you have a slight understanding of hex code and want make permanent adjustment to the default setting then try following my hack, step 1 all the way through to step #6.  Working really great for me.  Not totally hating the app and cursing the programmer every time I use it now."

This was the key word:

How to resolve problems with Flash Player Settings; either unable to change anything on the Settings panel, or new settings won't save:

Follow these steps carefully

1. Close all browser windows
2. Open Windows Explorer
3. In the address bar type %appdata%\Adobe
4. Delete the 'Flash Player' folder in there
5. In the address bar type %appdata%\Macromedia
6. Delete the 'Flash Player' folder in there\

Vol-la-la-la-la! Facebook videos starts playing again! Problem finally effectively solved!!! I can now watch my "amazing drum solos" and "TED talks" and sleep soundly again!

I am re-posting and sharing this to save the trouble and solve the problems of the millions who are also as fed-up and frustrated about this issue too! Finding this solution was like a needle in a haystack!  I hope this Penangnite here has helped you out :)

thanks a million to the source, you da bestest:
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/892474

RE: Good table to understand and to be effective in the usage of the English Language

Ahoy there!

English lesson time!
So whole browsing the world wide web, i have stumbled upon a very useful, practical table that could help all of us in the usage of the English language
Yes, you may think you are a pro (professional) and have no need to use such tables or reference. In that case, you may just skip this post and check others out.

This is for people like myself who still think that there is a lot of improvements to be made of our usage of the English language. (Especially the usage of the past, present tenses) Here is the table..enjoy!
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Use these tables to understand and master English tenses!

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SXI vs PFS - The rivalry of the Saints and the Frees

Ahhh...this brings back so many memories, such a stir of mixed emotions! 

Secondary school life! - the football, skipping classes, sleeping in class, chasing the girls, gossips, spiteful teachers, exam cheating and "gang" fights (seems those gangs are not as big as I thought them to be) and ect...
 
So as someone that grew up in Penang, I always had a feeling of some internal invincible conflict between the Saints and the Frees!
No, I am not talking about some triad underground group..I'm talking about the 2 secondary schools! (Saint Xaviers Institution [SXI] and Penang Free School [PFS])
Though, so far apart in distance (location wise)..but the invincible line of tension is felt when the 2 meet 

This has been true since the generation of our parents and the Star newspaper recently brought some enlightenment on this subject:

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Penang Free School has a long history with St Xavier’s Institution
by penang 's history

Steeped in history: Jalan Cheesemen, which is near the school, is named after Harold Ambrose Robinson Cheeseman, a PFS teacher who started the scouting movement in Penang in 1915.

IT IS impossible to write about the history of my alma mater, St Xavier’s Institution (Penang’s History, My Story, The Star on Jan 26), and to risk the wrath of my readers, especially Penangites, by ignoring rivals Penang Free School (PFS).

 

Hallways of SXI

 The irony is that we were once neighbours along Farquhar Street. PFS was founded by Anglican chaplain Rev Spark Hutchings in 1816. Hutchings School, where PFS had its beginnings, is located next to the state museum, which is just steps away from SXI.

Hutchings also founded the St George’s Church in Farquhar Street, the oldest Anglican church in South-East Asia.

PFS was the first English medium school in the country, and also in South-East Asia. Many thought “free” means free from fees, but actually, the “free” means the school is “open to all”. Unlike missionary schools such as SXI, care was taken in providing secular education.
It was only in 1928 that PFS moved to Green Lane — now renamed Jalan Masjid Negeri — and has remained until today.

Penang Free School (PFS)

V.S.

Saint Xaviers Institution (SXI)

SXI v.s. PFS: The great rivalry
When we talk about rivalry between SXI and PFS, it was so strong at one time that fistfights used to break out between schoolboys at sport matches. Police had been known to be called in to stop these squabbles.

Each time the teams met, the supporters will be out in full force, and many creative sports chants have been heard through the years. Even in defeat, we could be creative. I remember one time, when the Saints had lost a hockey match, the disappointed supporters were still able to sing (to the tune of Give Peace a Chance) – “Call us the Saints… we gave them a chance!”

This writer himself has turned up at such games, especially football and hockey matches, to support my school in “enemy territory”, the very huge field that fronts the school building.

The Frees shudder when they are told to run round the field as punishment, because one full round is not 400m but close to a mile. And another interesting aspect of this school is that surrounding the field are residential houses that are much sought-after by the upper middle class.

Previously, the headmasters would stay in the two-storey Straits-style bungalow next to the pavilion but after being empty for some years, it was recently refurbished and turned into a hostel and homestay programme.

Both SXI and PFS, as premier schools then, also had boarding accommodation for out-of-state students, and both definitely had good sport facilities as well as other extra-curricular activities.
They were also elitist in nature with the Western teachers running the schools the way it was done in England. The first headmaster was James Cox and until 1963, when Datuk Tan Boon Lin became the first homegrown Malaysian headmaster, all previous headmasters were Westerners.

Expectedly, three roads in the vicinity of PFS have been named in honour of three PFS headmasters — William Hargreaves (1891-1904), Ralph Henry Pinhorn (1904-1925) and William Hamilton (1925-1926).

There is also another road nearby named Cheeseman Road, after Harold Ambrose Robinson Cheeseman, a PFS teacher who started the scouting movement in Penang in 1915.

The school has honoured all four by naming sport houses after them. Another two houses were named after two famous alumni — the first Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman and legendary plague fighter Dr Wu Lien Teh. In 2009, headmaster Ramli Din increased the sport houses to eight by including the Raja of Perlis Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin Syed Putra Jamalullail and Tan Sri P. Ramlee.

Pinhorn
Let me share a bit about Pinhorn. According to various documents and reports, Pinhorn was the old, stern English principal that we often see in the movies.
“The most obvious feature of his character was his stern discipline and he was very much loved and respected by the pupils and teachers as well,” one website recorded.
“His circle of friends greatly admired him for his geniality, modesty and humility. Dignified in appearance, his capacity to act in full awareness of the great question that was all meant by education, took a heavy toll of his time and energy.”

It was reported that “the school’s management to treasure Pinhorn’s loving memory as a great headmaster, had set up several memorials, namely school prizes in English Language and Literature, History and the School House in games and the Library. The local council had fittingly named a road Pinhorn Road.

Pinhorn retired in 1924 and reportedly after spending some years in happy retirement, he passed away peacefully in England in 1938.

Of Spirits & Ghosts
Old Frees are fond of relating the many ghost stories related to some of the headmasters, in particular Pinhorn.
A colleague told me how students who stayed back to study late into the night would hear footsteps along the corridors, which many believe were those of Pinhorn.
But Pinhorn was in the news more recently because the Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng is now staying at a rented bungalow at Pinhorn Road instead of the official residence, Sri Teratai, at Macalister Road, opposite the St George’s Girls’ School, where Datuk Seri Shahrizat Jalil was once a student.
Interestingly, Guan Eng has decided to send his son to study at SXI despite staying at a road named after a PFS headmaster.

Apart from their legacy, the good thing about these two schools is that they still kept their Latin mottos. For the Saints, it is Labor Omnia Vincit (Labour Conquers All). And for the Frees, Fortis Atque Fidelis (Strong and Faithful).
 
Readers write:

Reader SL Wong, who stays in Air Itam, wants to know about the origins of Zoo Road.
Chun Wai: There indeed was a zoo in that location. According to reports, a flamboyant monk by the name of Fa Kong, which purportedly means “Empty Dharma”, had built a zoo at the foothills of Penang hill. He was said to be a practitioner of Zen Buddhism. Except for the name of the road, there is no evidence that the zoo was located at the actual road itself but it is accepted that he kept the animals at the foothills. Well, Zoo Road is at the foothills.

Email from Roger Scott Lewis in Toronto, Canada : Just read your very interesting article about historical George Town. However, I want to just bring one small error to your attention. Technically, Convent Light Street was not the first girls’ school in town. Martina Rozells, the wife of Captain Francis Light, had a small thatched nipah hut built along King Street, somwhere between Church Street and Bishop Street. It shows up on the oldest map of George Town and was written in French as “Ecole des Jeune Filles” (Why in French? I’m not sure) It was supposed to be for girls and/or orphan girls, I believe.
Chun Wai: Thank you for this bit of information. It is always good to learn something new. The Convent Light Street was founded by three French nuns namely Sister Gaetau, Sister Appolinaire and Sister Gregoire who arrived in Penang in 1852.

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So what is the outcome? 
As fellow Xavarian myself, I think that the Free's are not so bad once you get to know them! In fact now I have quite a number of friends who were from free school and we get along just fine! 
Just to add, SXI serves one of the best char koay teow! *but that's for a different article post*
no contest about that!

source: http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Community/2013/02/02/Penang-Free-School-has-a-long-history-with-St-Xaviers-Institution.aspx/

RE: Playful Illustrations Make It Easy to Learn Chinese Characters

So how many of you know the Chinese language? How about reading Chinese characters (text)?
Here is a helpful article piece that may help you in improving your reading of

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Playful Illustrations Make It Easy to Learn Chinese.

By ShaoLan Hsueh.

What do you think?
Rating: super interesting! 

source: http://9gag.com/gag/a6wnWwN