YouTube is extremely laggy in Safari (not in Firefox)

mgpg89 said:

I love Safari (so don't tell me to switch to Firefox) but YouTube has been super laggy lately.
Choppy playback, slow buffering, unresponsive website overall. But in Firefox, it works just fine.

Does anyone know what may be causing this?

Cheers

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Try disabling all add-ons or plug ins you have in Safari and see what happens. Also, try resetting it to its factory settings as well.

I've been experiencing the same thing. I complete reset Safari and nothing has changed. I still unresponsive play/pause button. Videos don't start playing for a while, and then when they do, they're extremely intermittent.

Do you all have the latest release version of Flash installed?

For Flash-related issues:

• Find your Flash version and make sure it's the latest version available. Never install or update Flash from a pop-up on a website. Always go to Adobe's site to get Flash or updates.
• Install ClickToFlash (Safari), Flashblock (Firefox) or FlashBlock (Chrome) to control which Flash content plays on websites.
• Try using the YouTube HTML5 Video Player to watch YouTube videos, when available. (May impact fullscreen viewing. See link for details.) As far as performance impact, YMMV.

Yhea on my desktop youtube doesn't Even play, but my fav browser is GC by far

mgpg89 said:

Thanks, updating Flash solved the issues I was having. Can't believe Flash doesn't auto-update though! (or at least notify you when there's an update available)

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It does on my Macs though, but since the Flashback trojan I get my updates directly from Adobe.

I might have to switch off of Click to Flash. Lately the QTKitServer is just eating all the CPU power on my Core 2 Duo.

I have same issue in Safari. You Tube suggests resetting your cache and cookies in your browser or wait for the entire video to buffer. I find it funny that the advertisements play perfectly as soon as you click on the video, but the video lags. I've updated my Flash but it didn't resolve anything.