Safari will not play Youtube videos!!!

Are you using plugins? Some plugins stall any browser to a halt after a while.

You're probably having the same problem I had, easy fix. You Tube has you on the 5HTML experiment and you have no idea and in no way gave them the ok to do so. You'll have to log into your account and uncheck the box at the bottom of your profile, something similar to that. You may have to search around but google it if you can't find it. You Tube videos went immediately back to playing perfectly.

Thanks so much Jon. Now working fine. At last, a solution.

I too found out I was on the HTML5 list. Youtube works perfectly now!

Thanks for the link, leejbarker32! I found that I was NOT in the HTML5 trial, so I opted to be IN the trial, and what do you know, I'm able to play YouTube video again. The strange thing is, I didn't have a problem with YouTube until earlier today! Almost sounds like someone out there is picking us off, one by one on a daily basis or something! Thanks again!

can someone please help!!! i have checked for the HTML5 on youtube and nothing seems to work i even called apple support and they dont have answer. hulu or youtube isnt working or any videos arent working im up to date on every somftware but it still doesnt work. can someone please help me?

I had the same trouble. Sometimes it would work, sometimes it would. What I did was hold my mouse over the youtuve video screen and I saw 'chose previous player" and i clicked that, and the video started working. I also un-instaslled the html5 plugin and then re-iinstalled it, and it seemed to work ok. i hope this helps

I have GIVEN UP on Safari after trying all the suggestions in this forum and others. Moved to Chrome. And felt bad about it..(for about a minute)...very happy now. Good luck.

Hahaha!!! I know,... I was forced to after updating to Safari 6. What a disappointment!

I'm having exact problem right now! I'm using same iMac with Project2500. While in youtube, the videos loads and plays then buffer.. then suddenly stops loading and stops playing the video.

Youtube has completely stopped working in Safari for me. Fat lot of use they are when you try to get help for this issue.

Safari is getting increasingly difficault to use at all with the processor hogging issue and now this.

I do not know what is going on.

Why are all the big guys messing up the easy bits?

Did all you guys check for outdated extensions?

The problems seemed to be HTML5 related - reverting back to Flash Player (by opting out of Youtube's HTML5 trial) - yes, kind of a "fix".

But since I want to avoid Flash as much as possible, I checked the Extensions (Safari - Preferences - Extensions) - they were outdated > updated all 3 (AdBlock, Youtube5 (was never enabled), and ClickToFlash)...

voilà - everything works again 🙂

Not sure which outdated extension caused the problem (i guess AdBlock, since Youtube5 wasn't activated) - but i'm pretty sure it was the fault of an extension - not Google/Youtube.

Just updating the extensions also fixed it on my other Mac.

10.7

Turning off HTML5 worked for me. Here's the link again for those that need it:

http://www.youtube.com/html5

Had the same problem - flash videos were not showing on Safari, snow leopard 10.6.8 - and I solved it!!!

By un-enable or uninstall an extension that I have called Google Disconnect 1.1 (this extension claims to "stop google from tracking the webpages you go to". Vualah...

arrazol wrote:

Had the same problem - flash videos were not showing on Safari, snow leopard 10.6.8 - and I solved it!!!

By un-enable or uninstall an extension that I have called Google Disconnect 1.1 (this extension claims to "stop google from tracking the webpages you go to". Vualah...

ℹMaybe I'm coming a bit off the current topic, my problem wasn't with Youtube videos but with macrumors.com videos and some other pages. Youtube was and still is running fine. Hope I help someone any way.😊