You can make a difference in the Apple Support Community!

When you sign up with your Apple Account, you can provide valuable feedback to other community members by upvoting helpful replies and User Tips.

Looks like no one’s replied in a while. To start the conversation again, simply ask a new question.

Pr0ject2500 Author

Level 1

5 points

Safari will not play Youtube videos!!!

I have an Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06 GHz Imac and I am running Snow Leoprad 10.6.8. The problem I am having is that since I recently uipdated Safari, I cannot run Youtube videos. Every time I try watching one, the page crashes. I know I am not alone here and I am surprised Apple has not approached this situation yet. I have tried running youtube videos on Firefox and have had no problems doing so, thus I figure it must be Safari. I've tried running safari in 32 bit mode and that has not helped. I have emptied the cache and reset Safari as well but still no go. Any suggestions would be wonderful.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Mar 27, 2012 1:29 PM

107 replies

yosoygil

Level 1

0 points

Oct 19, 2012 9:36 PM in response to Pr0ject2500

I'm having the same problem, youtube videos freezes every 10 seconds or so and it loads so slow, I opted out the html5 mode but there's no solution...

Berudil

Level 1

5 points

Nov 3, 2012 1:27 AM in response to Jon Corry

Thanks for the tip! That solved also my problem.

Nov 5, 2012 9:17 AM in response to thadeej

Opting out of the html5 trial solved it for me too! Thanks for that tip. Never would have found that without the help here!

wixxdqu

Level 1

4 points

Nov 7, 2012 8:08 AM in response to Pr0ject2500

Hello.

For me it looks like this is the new YouTube design (http://www.omgchrome.com/youtube-google-integration/) that causes an issue with the HTML5 trial and my Safari 6.0.2. If you really don't want to go back to Flash by leaving the HTML5 trial, it looks like opting-in for the Feather beta fixes the issue.

1. Go to http://www.youtube.com/feather_beta and join the "Feather" Beta.

2. Go to http://www.youtube.com/html5 and join the HTML5 Trial.

HTML5 video in Safari should be back. But you won't benefit from the new design (on video pages only, homepage and other pages are not modified by Feather).

Nov 19, 2012 7:47 AM in response to Pr0ject2500

Indeed, the problem was the youtube HTML5 trial. I signed off and the video's work again in Safari!

timmyb

Level 1

4 points

Nov 27, 2012 9:00 AM in response to Pr0ject2500

I left the YouTube htlm 5 but it did not help me. I still can not play videos? Any help?

Nov 30, 2012 11:28 AM in response to timmyb

Make sure Javascript is turned on... otherwise you'll get a lot of black rectangles.

in Develop Menu make sure NO CHECKMARK is by Disable Javascript

Mitch 751

Level 6

11,631 points

Dec 5, 2012 12:57 AM in response to timmyb

What worked for me:

To delete Safari's icon cache using the Finder, open your user folder, navigate to ~/Library/Safari/ and move this file "webpageIcons.db to the Trash

kyle7474

Level 1

13 points

Dec 14, 2012 1:37 AM in response to timmyb

From the Mac Runors Forum, it worked for me...

The cookie name was just youtube, but I deleted it and restarted safari and voila! it works!

Originally Posted by JamieO

Instead of losing all your good and bad cookies with "Remove All Website Data" button, you can just kill the one cookie that seems to cause this problem:

Select Safari > Preference > Privacy > Details

Search for Youtube

Delete the cookie called youtube-nocookie.com then click Done.

Restart Safari and try again.

Worked for me - Hope it helps for you.

P.S. I see that cookie gets recreated when you log back in to YouTube, but the videos still work.

Dec 16, 2012 3:02 AM in response to leejbarker32

It worked!!!! Thank you so much!!

Dec 16, 2012 2:16 PM in response to jhuinac

same problem here - no Youtube function after recent YouTube update

snafrod

Level 1

0 points

Dec 18, 2012 1:23 PM in response to Pr0ject2500

Removed Safari from YouTube HTML5 Trial ... no change. Closed/Reopened Safari and cleared the cache ... it works!

Jan 1, 2013 5:12 AM in response to kyle7474

Thanks kyle7474, deleting both the youtube-nocookie.com and the youtube.com cookies, quitting and restarting Safari solved it for me. I hope it sticks!

Gbcradio

Level 1

0 points

Jan 5, 2013 3:43 PM in response to Pr0ject2500

Hie there had a similar issue on my ipad with you tube not playing solved it by changing WIFI DNS to google's 8.8.8.8

Go to your wifi ,select your network, click blue arrow, change dns to above.

It worked for me and its been brillient since.

DJG

Jan 7, 2013 9:41 AM in response to Pr0ject2500

removing myself from HTML5 WORKED for me!

Safari will not play Youtube videos!!!