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how do i see secure content?

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I am trying to view video content embedded in my employers website and have been told I can't see it because it is "secure" and I need to "show all secure content" however I do not have a pop up asking me about this and can't seem to work out how to "switch it on"

Please can you help? Here is the link to the website I am referring to: https://www.workplacegiving.co.uk/overseas-aid/ - there is video embedded on each charity page but it shows as a white box for me at the moment.

thanks

Jacqui

I am trying to view video content embedded in my employers website and have been told I can't see it because it is "secure" and I need to "show all secure content" however I do not have a pop up asking me about this and can't seem to work out how to "switch it on" Please can you help? Here is the link to the website I am referring to: https://www.workplacegiving.co.uk/overseas-aid/ - there is video embedded on each charity page but it shows as a white box for me at the moment. thanks Jacqui

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Another possibility is to leave out the http protocol. That will make Firefox use the same protocol as was used to open the page.

<embed src="//www.youtube.com/v/HRHhyNDOhgo" ...>

This forum uses this method as well as you can see in the page source.

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hello Jacqui, there should be a shield icon on the left of the address bar which allows you to turn on insecure content on an otherwise encrypted page: Mixed content blocking in Firefox

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Thanks! done it and on particular pages it is all working... any chance there is a way to do this en masse so i dont have to go into each page individually to click the shield?... there are about 150 pages you see.... thanks

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hello, the best solution would be for your employer to embed the youtube video through https in the source code of the website - then it will work for all visitors of the site without this additional manual step.

for example at https://www.workplacegiving.co.uk/charities/action-against-hunger the source code for the embedded youtube video is

<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HRHhyNDOhgo" ...>

all that has be done in order to correct this, is changing the source code to

<embed src="https://www.youtube.com/v/HRHhyNDOhgo" ...>

http://apiblog.youtube.com/2011/02/https-support-for-youtube-embeds.html

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Another possibility is to leave out the http protocol. That will make Firefox use the same protocol as was used to open the page.

<embed src="//www.youtube.com/v/HRHhyNDOhgo" ...>

This forum uses this method as well as you can see in the page source.

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thank you very much for your help

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thank you very much for your help

Modified by jacquilou22

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Grateful to all contributors. My boss is looking into this currently