When I try to play a You Tube video in Safari it tells me my version is no longer supported and I should download a newer version of Safari. I have OSX10.8.5, and my Safari is 6.2.3, and apparently it's up to date. What's going on?

Question

Level 1

11 points

When I try to play a You Tube video in Safari it tells me my version is no longer supported and I should download a newer version of Safari. I have OSX10.8.5, and my Safari is 6.2.3, and apparently it's up to date. What's going on?

When I try to play a You Tube video in Safari it tells me my version is no longer supported and I should download a newer version of Safari. I have OSX10.8.5, and my Safari is 6.2.3, and apparently it's up to date. What's going on? Should I just give up and use Chrome or Firefox, which work fine?

Thanks,

Richard

MacBook Pro (17-inch 2.4 GHz), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)

Posted on Feb 27, 2015 11:38 AM

Reply

Answer 1

Linc Davis

Level 10

209,535 points

Feb 27, 2015 2:40 PM in response to rb_stern

Please load CheckMyIp.org and post the "USER AGENT information" shown.

Reply

Answer 2

rb_stern Author

Level 1

11 points

Feb 27, 2015 3:01 PM in response to Linc Davis

Your USER AGENT information is Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_5) AppleWebKit/600.3.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.2.3 Safari/537.85.12

Every webserver that receives a request from your browser is able to determine the HTTP USER AGENT information unless it has been removed by some software (e.g. firewall) before the request was trasmitted.

Reply

Answer 3

rb_stern Author

Level 1

11 points

Feb 27, 2015 3:05 PM in response to rb_stern

Your mention of User Agent got me thinking, so I changed it to Safari 8.0.3, and now You Tube works fine.

Thanks.

Richard

Reply