While watching Unbox therapy videos, the video hangs and lags. What's weird is that only Unbox therapy videos lags and i haven't got this problem with any other channel. Confused!!! help!!!???
MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2015), OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)
I have downloaded and installed and used the Safari Technology Preview, and I still see the same exact problem, although it seems to occurs longer into the videos I watch. Maybe some buffer only gets filled up if a video is long enough, who knows.
I am using:
Safari Technology Preview Release 27 (Safari 10.2, WebKit 12604.1.15.2),
on macOS Sierra 10.12.4
on iMac late 2012.
Try a restart.
Do a backup, using either Time Machine or a cloning program, to ensure files/data can be recovered. Two backups are better than one.
Try setting up another admin user account to see if the same problem continues. If Back-to-My Mac is selected in System Preferences, the Guest account will not work. The intent is to see if it is specific to one account or a system wide problem. This account can be deleted later.
Isolating an issue by using another user account
If the problem is still there, try booting into the Safe Mode using your normal account. Disconnect all peripherals except those needed for the test. Shut down the computer and then power it back up after waiting 10 seconds. Immediately after hearing the startup chime, hold down the shift key and continue to hold it until the gray Apple icon and a progress bar appear. The boot up is significantly slower than normal. This will reset some caches, forces a directory check, and disables all startup and login items, among other things. When you reboot normally, the initial reboot may be slower than normal. If the system operates normally, there may be 3rd party applications which are causing a problem. Try deleting/disabling the third party applications after a restart by using the application un-installer. For each disable/delete, you will need to restart if you don't do them all at once.
Something else you can try is go to System Preferences/Displays and set a lower screen resolution.
Its a known issue with Safari. Its just not updated to work with Youtube's new player thats used in some videos. Good news is that its fixed in MacOS Sierra and also the Safari Technology Preview. So expect a fix this September unless Apple releases an early update.
I tried lowering the screen resolution, boot in safe mode, using a different account but nothing worked.I don't know why but why safari only lags while watching a only specific channel on youtube(Unbox Therapy), why not any other channel ?????
It has to do with cross suggestions that some videos use. unbox therapy uses suggestions at the end of his videos that are not compatible with Safari yet. my recommendation is to give Safari technology Preview a try. It's free to download and is the same thing as Safari except it's updated every 2 weeks instead of every few months.
Do you have a download link or is it part if Sierra?
You can download it from here https://developer.apple.com/safari/download/ just choose El Capitan
I thought I'm the only one who is experiencing this. Same with me, I like to watch unboxtherapy videos on youtube. Safari freezes, then gets the beachball, then it will restart by itself.
Lucky to have read this. Oh man, I thought my case was an isolated one.
OK so i'm not the only one LOL. So, have found any fix for this?
The problem is fixed.Thanks dude you're the man. I've just download Safari technology preview and it is working absolutely great without any lags and freezes on Unbox Therapy. Is there any way to export saved websites and settings from Original safari to Safari technology preview????????
I just used iCloud to sync with Safari so everything was already there.
safari hangs and lags while watching video on youtube
