Blargy McBlargenstein
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Q: Omniweb is not playing Youtube videos

Hi:

 

I have an iBook G4 running 10.5.6 and I'm using Omniweb 5.11.2 as my browser. Up until yesterday everything was fine. Then I logged on to Youtube and Omniweb wouldn't play any of the videos. Youtube still runs fine on my old Camino browser however. Any ideas on what might be wrong? The only thing I've changed lately is that I installed an extra gig of RAM. But Omniweb worked fine on Youtube after that until recently.

 

Thanks

Blargy

iBook, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Jan 17, 2014 7:36 PM

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Q: Omniweb is not playing Youtube videos

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  • by Blargy McBlargenstein,

    Blargy McBlargenstein Blargy McBlargenstein Jan 17, 2014 7:38 PM in response to Blargy McBlargenstein
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    Jan 17, 2014 7:38 PM in response to Blargy McBlargenstein

    Sorry all - my OS is actually 10.5.8, not 10.5.6, as stated above!

  • by K Shaffer,

    K Shaffer K Shaffer Jan 18, 2014 6:22 PM in response to Blargy McBlargenstein
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    Jan 18, 2014 6:22 PM in response to Blargy McBlargenstein

    You may be able to find a more recent version of SeaMonkey-PPC, that could support the last Flash player for Leopard 10.5.8 from the Adobe flash archive downloads. Another browser that works OK is iCab, it will run in demo mode with few restrictions, or pay and get a license.

     

    TenFourFox browser is a good build, but has flash and java turned off by default, so you'd have to reconfigure it for them to work. They'd use whatever versions were last supported or available for your vintage OS X.

     

    Some of the video content in Youtube could be Flash

    and other authored content may use HTML5.

     

    Web sites also use HTML5 for youtube and some other video content. Youtube has a player download for use with a few of the browsers out there, but not sure if that'd help. https://www.youtube.com/html5

     

    Good luck & happy computing!