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Q: Youtube won't load

Hi,

I am using a MacBook and have been for just over a year. I am currently using the latest version of Safari. For some reason, over the last week or so it has refused to open Youtube. When i put in www.youtube.com and hit enter, Safari just doesn't do anything apart from shade the address bar slightly to show some progress and also shows as loading, but whatever website I was previously on stays up. As far as I can tell, Youtube is the only website that this happens on.

Any suggestions?

Cheers

MacBook

Posted on Feb 15, 2011 9:56 AM

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  • by cosmeticMUSiXXX,

    cosmeticMUSiXXX cosmeticMUSiXXX Mar 5, 2011 5:59 AM in response to pculliford
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    Mar 5, 2011 5:59 AM in response to pculliford
    Really, every time that I use Flash I become more convinced that Apple made the right choice leaving it out of iOS.

    Does anyone know of a Safari extension that will convert ~every~ Flash content into HTML5? Sadly I have to use Flash, but if that can be converted…I will be a happier person.
  • by Ciscokid626,

    Ciscokid626 Ciscokid626 Mar 8, 2011 11:58 PM in response to cosmeticMUSiXXX
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    Mar 8, 2011 11:58 PM in response to cosmeticMUSiXXX
    Hello everyone, for those of you having problems watching Youtube on your mac try this: While your on Youtube site go to the upper left hand corner and click on Safari then go to preferences>security and place a checkmark on enable plug ins under web content. This should fix the problem with flash videos not working on mac.
  • by Cpl BadBoy,

    Cpl BadBoy Cpl BadBoy Mar 9, 2011 2:24 AM in response to pculliford
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    Mar 9, 2011 2:24 AM in response to pculliford
    Having the same issue with both Google Crome and Safari. Google Chrome videos will play but they are extremely choppy playback. Safari is the black screen.

    The only hassle free way of watching YT is through Firefox. My advice sack Safari and Chrome and use FF. To my surprise FF is pretty fast these days and compared to what it was - I havent used it in years-the page rendering is better IMO.

    So thats my workaround use FF, It just works, which ironically is meant to be Apples thing aint it?? Unfortunately Safari aint working! I dont have time to sit and change this setting, that setting , flick this switch off and on etc just to watch a YT video.
  • by Umbe,

    Umbe Umbe Mar 9, 2011 7:06 AM in response to pculliford
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    Mar 9, 2011 7:06 AM in response to pculliford
    Same problem here.

    Each time I want to play a YouTube video (from the YouTube console, i.e. not as an embedded object) I get a black screen with no sound. Interestingly, if I reset all the Safari cookies it works again, but only for one video. Then I have to reset cookies again to watch another video and so on. That makes it pretty much impossible to use.

    As suggested, will try the switch to HTML5.
  • by Umbe,

    Umbe Umbe Mar 9, 2011 7:15 AM in response to pculliford
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    Mar 9, 2011 7:15 AM in response to pculliford
    As a follow-up to my previous message, I've switched to HTML5 and still have the same problem. At this point, I guess I'll just wait for YouTube/Flash to find a fix (I believe the problem stands with them). I'll use FireFox in the meantime for YouTube.
  • by Lexi,

    Lexi Lexi Mar 9, 2011 11:40 AM in response to cosmeticMUSiXXX
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    Mar 9, 2011 11:40 AM in response to cosmeticMUSiXXX
    just go here http://safariextensions.org/ and type in youtube 5 in the search area. It's what I've been using since this whole mess started. The latest update to safari doesn't seem to fix this either.
  • by Mr Grinch,

    Mr Grinch Mr Grinch Mar 26, 2011 11:54 AM in response to Lexi
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    Mar 26, 2011 11:54 AM in response to Lexi
    If you have "Click to Flash" installed, go to Safari>Preferences>Extensions and update it to version 2.1.4 using the Updates button on the lower left side of the window.

    This solved the issue for me, I'm still running in 64 bit mode without doing anything else recommended in this thread.

    Hope this helps
  • by Littleloo2,

    Littleloo2 Littleloo2 Aug 4, 2011 11:23 PM in response to pculliford
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    Aug 4, 2011 11:23 PM in response to pculliford

    I do not see any answers to pculliford's question, and I am having the same problem.  It's not simply that YouTube videos won't play (although they won't), it's that www.youtube.com won't even load.  I have uninstalled and re-intstalled adobe, emptied my cache, re-set safari.  Now I am beginning to find that several other pages won't load either.  VERY, VERY frustrated.  Have tried other browsers (Firefox and Chrome).  Still no joy.  What is going on?

     

    Not one suggestion in this thread addresses the actual problem.

  • by dottiedukes,

    dottiedukes dottiedukes Aug 29, 2012 3:02 PM in response to timothy632
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    Aug 29, 2012 3:02 PM in response to timothy632

    where is the application folder?

  • by Shash30,

    Shash30 Shash30 Jul 2, 2016 2:43 AM in response to timothy632
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    Jul 2, 2016 2:43 AM in response to timothy632

    I had the same problem of youtube website not loading of past 2 days. Tried everything on the net but finally changing DNS to 8.8.4.4 worked. Thanks!

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