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All of the text in my downloads has been garbled in Safari on my Imac and youtube videos keep prompting me to download adobe flash player , I do but videos still won't play.

Can anyone help me resolve the garbled text first? Thanks.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Jul 19, 2013 10:14 AM

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Posted on Jul 19, 2013 10:21 AM

Try this. Go to this web page:


http://www.youtube.com/html5


and make sure your are not in the HTML5 trial. Opting out if you are included often restores normal YouTube function.


Is Safari fully upgraded? There are a lot of reports here of Safari 5.x not running properly under OS 10.7.


See if this sorts the YouTube probelm and then we can tackle the garbled text issue. Can you post a screen shot of a page thus affected?

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Jul 19, 2013 10:21 AM in response to sandy64

Try this. Go to this web page:


http://www.youtube.com/html5


and make sure your are not in the HTML5 trial. Opting out if you are included often restores normal YouTube function.


Is Safari fully upgraded? There are a lot of reports here of Safari 5.x not running properly under OS 10.7.


See if this sorts the YouTube probelm and then we can tackle the garbled text issue. Can you post a screen shot of a page thus affected?

Aug 16, 2013 1:24 PM in response to TildeBee

Here you go Bee ~ thanks!

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Aug 16, 2013 8:33 PM in response to sandy64

Sandy, it looks like you might have a Font Cache problem. There is an easy way to clear the Users Font Cache, but I would recommend you get rid of all font caches. This can be done easil through a "free" neat app called

YASU.


Here's their site. http://yasuapp.com


Just unclick everything but :

Clear System Font Cache

Clear Local font cache

Clear User font cache


After checking these three, click OK.


I use this about 2x year, and have found it very helpful. I only clear font caches if I'm having a problem, which you obviously are. I hope it helps you.

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