When I view ytube it stops, skips and/or the little ball just spins. This problem was never so bad as recently. I have WiFi but I can watch ytube on my iPad so I know it is not my internet. I tried turning HTMLS on and off and either way it made no difference.
Please advise!
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
joni
What Extensions have you loaded on for Safari?
Any other Internet apps / plugins on there?
Have you emptied your Safari cache?
Bee,
I have no extensions loaded (Safari Preferences > extensions is blank)
I do not know if I have other internet apps or pluggins... How do I check?
and I have emptied my catch.
When I emptied cookies and web site data in safari preferences it allowed me to watch one ytube successfully but failed after that. Also, I noticed a short time improvement on the speed of browsing. But I have to say that web page loading is also slow. I don't know if that is related.
Thank you for your reply, I hope you can help me some more!
Joni
Actually I checked plug-ins (Help > installed plug-ins) and I found I have
1. iPhotoPhotocast
2. JavaAppletPlugin
3. QuickTime Plugin 7.6.6
4. Shockwave Flash 11.6 r602
5. Silverlight Plug-In 5.1.10411.0
6. Unity Player
7. WebKit built-in PDF
There are also a series of extensions listed for each of these plug-ins. So I am a little confused as to what these extension are if the Safari extensions box is blank.
Hope that info helps.
Joni
Joni --
When did you put the Unity Player on there?
Do you have Flip4Mac on there? That will help you view video better . . .
Did this happen recently, or have you always had trouble with YouTube.
Are other videos outside of YouTube playing OK?
Hi Bee,
I do not know when or why Unity Player got installed. As I do not play games on my main computer, I have deleted Unity.
I do not have Flip4Mac because my understanding is it works on Mac OS X v10.7 or above and I have v10.6. Maybe I am wrong?
I used to be able to play ytubes just fine. One thing I did do recently, which initially had no impact but maybe it did? Was to disable 'Enable Java' but keep 'Enable JavaScript' and 'Enable Plug-ins' checked (Safari > Preference > Security) I did this because I heard that there where a lot of security problems with Java, and was advised to uncheck 'Enable Java'.
I have trouble playing Wimp.com videos as well.
Thank you for you replies,
Jonica
Jonica --
There is a version for Snow Leopard, and I used it when I was on that OS.
There's only one tip, according to their site:
Leopard and Snow Leopard users must download Flip4Mac 2.4.4. (Earlier version)
Before trying Flip4Mac, re-enable Java to test.
I have Java enabled with no problems. As long as you keep your Security Updates up-to-date, I think you're OK.
I am having trouble viewing ytube on my Mac 10.6.8/Safari 5.1.8
