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February 19, 2014
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Black screen when viewing online video in full-screen mode on IE11

  • February 19, 2014
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My system: System: Win8.1, 6 gb ram, Intel HD 3000 Graphics (video card) 15'6 1366*768 Laptop Samsung

Black screen when viewing online video in full-screen mode in Internet Explorer 11. Can be seen on the HTML5 pages. I'm from Russia, badly know English, and I don't know how explain this, so I filmed video, so that you can see more detail in the entire process. He wrote in the technical support for Microsoft, but they responded that most likely the case in video card drivers. Updated drivers, did not help. How to Fix??

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C_F_McBlob
Inspiring
February 20, 2014

Most of the problems come from the abomination Microsoft calls a browser---Internet Exploder 11.

IE has always been the problem child of browsers, but 11 has got to be the biggest pile of grabage to come out of Redmond, WA since Vista. They rewrote the "User-Agent Strings", which websites use to identify the browswer and provide the proper content for it, like ActiveX specific things. Some sites now ID it as Gecko (Firefox) while others ID it as Webkit (Chrome or Safari). Problem is, that when the content is adjusted for those User-Agent Strings, it REQUIRES the appropriate browser engine, which IE doesn't have. EVERYTHING falls apart after that.

So far, Microsoft has made NO indication that they have any plan to fix it soon.

Microsoft's recommendation is to use Compatibility View for affected pages, and "pretend" you're using an different browser. Trouble with that is it has seen limited success at best, and you have to individually enable it for EVERY page that has problems.

I'm not big on "pretending" so I recommend actually using another browser.

Firefox (from Mozilla)

Opera (from Opera)

Safari (from Apple)

Chrome (from Google)

ANY of those will work where IE11 won't, with the Flash Player Plug-in (For all other browsers), and Chrome doesn't even need that because it has its own Flash Player plugin built in.

Ant0niusLAuthor
Participant
February 20, 2014

Thanks! I tested another browsers (Firefox, Chrome) there all good. I think the problem at site vk.com (HTML5) or IE11.

C_F_McBlob
Inspiring
February 20, 2014

HTML5 requires no plug-in...