Why can't I get rid of googles search bar?
Why do Amazon entries just appear on my speed dial?
Why don't you give a shit about your users and follow the "lets make a dollar "path it seems.
Why do you want to snoop on all my activity.?

I am outa here you bastards.

The pricks that run this now , Google seek to control you . Seems thats their ultimate aim .

This no longer works . The bastards have been at work . F.... Google you won't rule me!

@eagerhalfling Clearly we are back to the bad old days where none of the basics work and you have to find out yourself.

You have made the right start by asking questions . I found no youtube videos or facebook videos played properly and even vids on mail.com would not even play. Silly infighting really ,people hell bent on making dollars out of you so you have to outsmart them.

Here is what I got that fixed my problems.
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/378344065/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_67.0.3396.99-0ubuntu0.16.04.2_amd64.deb

Note the "chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_67.0.3396.99".
Looks like this is one of the workarounds for proprietary shit that you need to find a version for your operating system and install it.

Here is what is said about it on the download site

This package contains the multi-threaded ffmpeg codecs needed for the HTML5
 <audio> and <video> tags. In addition to the patent-free ogg, vorbis and
 theora codecs, aac/ac3/mpeg4audio/h264/mov/mp3 are also included. See
 chromium-codecs-ffmpeg if you prefer only the patent-free codecs

@stefanw1337
clearly you have not got ‘libffmpeg.so installed so how can you expect things to work . Go find it and install it . maybe it got coerrupted or lost somehow

Just a clickable link to keep it all together
Page
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/xenial/amd64/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra/67.0.3396.99-0ubuntu0.16.04.2

File to get
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/378344065/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_67.0.3396.99-0ubuntu0.16.04.2_amd64.deb

Seems they do the old cancel edit powers here which really stuffs things up cause you cant organise your posts as you wish them to keep relevent stuff together So...

I'm using Xenialpup64_7-5 which is a 64 bit release so if your using a 32 look for the 32bit on the first site ref.

@bobsteel
When you have it running find this file and install it and Facebook and other videos will play properly.
chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_67.0.3396.99-0ubuntu0.16.04.2_amd64.deb

@empat Try running as root /usr/lib/opera/opera.bin pass it "--no-sandbox"

As you know you get these do gooders trying to restrict your use of a browser by calling you "Spot"

I have never been a "Spot" and never will be so the perplexing problem of accessing my directories that we all have on our computers while being limited to only accessing "Spot" directory has annoyed me for 6 months now so I decided to work on it .

Turns out its damn easy. Go to /usr/lib/opera/opera.bin Link the file to the desktop by dragging it to the desktop from a filer. Then edit that desktop entry under "Arguments to pass" and put "--no-sandbox" and voila its now running as root and you can save where you damnwell like.

Search the web for "Opera Icon" go to images and save one then add the icon to your desktop entry. How bloody annoying that was .