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Can't Change YouTube Video Quality

Ever since my upgrade to Safari 5.1.2 I can no longer adjust the video quality settingson YouTube. Additionally, the load portion of the progress bar (the gray part) doesn't appear.


I'm not sure if this is becuse of a change to YouTubes look, but it works fine in Google's Chrome browser. I see the gray load progress bar and when I click on the video quality setting, the video pauses as it always used to and then begins where it left off in a better quality.


On Safari I just see a spinning icon next to the video quality number and then evnetually the number changes, but I don't think the quality gets any better.


I've made sure the version of Flash Player is at the latest too.


And on the topic of flash video... both YouTube and Hulu video freeze quite often now when in full screen but the audio keeps playing through. So, lots of problems trying to watch flash video recently.



EDIT: The same problems in Safari are in Firefox as well. So maybe this isn't a Safari specific related issue.

MacPro Xeon 64bit 8-Core, Mac OS X (10.5.8), 6 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM

Posted on Dec 23, 2011 12:44 PM

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Dec 23, 2011 12:58 PM in response to Daniel Brown

Try uninstalling the current Flash plugin then reinstall new > Troubleshoot Flash Player | Mac OS


If that doesn't help, try deleting Flash cookies > Flush.app – Flash Cookie Removal Tool For OS X | MacHacks.TV


Try emptying the Safari cache more often. Either from the Safari menu bar, Safari > Empty Cache or Command + Option + E on your keyboard.

Can't Change YouTube Video Quality

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