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What's wrong with YouTube on Safari!!!

Hi guys,


This is just recently!! YouTube on Safari is literally BAD EXPERIENCE!!!


When I choose to play something, it either:


- Play the first 4 seconds and repeat with a black screen

- Play 10-15 seconds as a whole clip instead of the proper lenght of the clip

- It keeps freezing my browser if a video managed to load, it gets stuck A LOT, it plays only part of it and not all of it and it just doesn't work!!


What is going on! I tried all of this uninstall Flash and reinstall and/or whatever!!!


It works smoothly on Firefox, something is wrong with SAFARI!!!


What can I do? anybody with the same issue and found out a solution!!


I can!!


Sul.

Posted on Mar 28, 2012 1:30 PM

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Jun 13, 2013 1:45 AM in response to agent_s87

I'm having a terrible time with Youtube. To make things more complicated, it 'sometimes' works. I would say that I can watch a video successfully on 10% of my tries. Even worse, sometimes a commericial will play correctly, before I get my error message (which appears over Youtube "static"). Sometimes, embedded videos on Facebook (in my News Feed) will play... but only one or two, and then I get the error messages again. Embedded videos never work on other sites I visit. It's more typical I get them to work on Youtube's website.


Trying to fix this, I just updated to 10.8.4. So it should be a fresh install of Safari too.


I delete my cookies and empty my cache regularly, and always before shutting down. Even on a fresh boot up, Youtube videos return the error message.


I'm not enrolled in the HTML5 trial.


32 bits is not enabled.


Flash is up to date (version 11.7.700.225)


I deleted Flip4Mac recently (but I've been having this problem for many months).


I tried out Google Chrome (last week, before I updated my OS) and got error messages there too.


I will install Flip4Mac again, and hope that it needed an update.


I'm unsure about installing that Vertical Forrest plug-in, since only two people mentioned it, but I'm willing to try.


I was on the phone with Tech Support and they couldn't help me... they told me to look in my Internet Plug-Ins folder, and to remove each plug in one-by-one and see if that fixed anything. But when I read them the list of plug-ins, they said they were all standard.


Since I work with multimedia, this is extremely problematic.

What's wrong with YouTube on Safari!!!

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