Youtube player reloads when I switch to fullscreen in safari 9. When I switch User Agent option from Default to Safari 9 within the Develop menu the problem disappears, but it doesn’t solve, since when I open a new tab the User Agent switch again to Default.
MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)
You have this issue too? If it's in automatic resolution, switching player to full screen will automatically change the resolution of the vid causing it to buffer. I get this too, but lately I have been switching the resolution manually when starting a video. This will stop it from halting and buffering when switching it to fullscreen.
A workaround if anything, not a real solution I am afraid though.
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With Default option checked in Develop > User Agent, if you click on Other option in the same menu, you can see the User Agent String “Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_5) AppleWebKit/601.1.56 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0 Safari/537.86.1”, but if you turn Develop > User Agent > Safari 9.0 on and after click on Other option, you gonna see the User Agent String "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_0) AppleWebKit/601.1.56 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0 Safari/601.1.56”.
It means Safari isn’t using the Agent of Safari 9.0 by default, I guess, that’s the problem I can’t solve.
Thanks.
Thanks for clarifying. I wasn't even aware that the default agent is a depreciated version. I can't understand why they wouldn't default to the current version though. Perhaps someone out there can supply the knowledge.
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If you are still using Mavericks then safari is using the correct agent. If, like me, recently went for an update from Mavericks > El Capitan (bypassing yosemite) and are now on El Capitan I think you almost had it fixed.
Nivlacsebboh wrote:
Youtube player reloads when I switch to fullscreen in safari 9. When I switch User Agent option from Default to Safari 9 within the Develop menu the problem disappears, but it doesn’t solve, since when I open a new tab the User Agent switch again to Default.
With Default option checked in Develop > User Agent, if you click on Other option in the same menu, you can see the User Agent String “Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_5) AppleWebKit/601.1.56 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0 Safari/537.86.1”, but if you turn Develop > User Agent > Safari 9.0 on and after click on Other option, you gonna see the User Agent String "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_0) AppleWebKit/601.1.56 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0 Safari/601.1.56”.
It means Safari isn’t using the Agent of Safari 9.0 by default, I guess, that’s the problem I can’t solve.
After I got the desired agent, (the one for El Capitan) I went Develop > User Agent > Other... Then I hit Ok, This added it to the list. It should have a checkmark. I no longer have to worry about manually selecting resolution and can enter/exit full screen without freezing and rebuffering. Open a new tab, play a video and bob is your uncle.
Hope this Helps
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Youtube player reloads when I switch to fullscreen in safari 9.
