Can't scroll past YouTube videos in Safari

[joecg]

When I'm using the two-finger scroll on my MBP on a website, if I scroll down and the cursor goes over a youtube video, I can no longer scroll up or down and have to move my cursor out of the youtube video to resume scrolling.

Has anyone ever experienced this? It's driving me nuts, and I think it has started recently.

 

[StudyAnimal]

Sounds like flash stealing the focus. Does it do it in html5 mode?

 

[Darth.Titan]

To the best of my knowledge it's always done this. It's mildly annoying, but I pretty muck always unconsciously adjust for it.

 

[celticpride678]

Same here. I think it only happens in Safari and started happening in Flash 10.1 (don't remember it happening before).

It does get annoying, but it doesn't seem like Apple's fault - either Adobe or YouTube.

 

[Big Bad D]

Also same here. Seems to have got worse since Safari 5 and Flash 10.1

 

[charliex5]

It happens in Chrome to me as well. It must be a flash thing.

 

[joecg]

Glad it's not just my computer.

 

[alienapp]

have you guys went ahead and installed flash 10.1 on your mac?

If yes that may be the problem.

 

[StudyAnimal]

Yep definitely related to flash.

Safari users should be using html5 instead.

http://www.youtube.com/html5

 

[appleguy123]

Happens to me too. Is there any fix?

 

[Les Kern]

Happens to me too. Is there any fix?

Yes, don't have the cursor go over the video while scrolling with two finger scroll.

 

[StudyAnimal]

Happens to me too. Is there any fix?

Yes. See my link above related to using html5 rather than flash.

 

[saxon48]

I'm having the exact same issue, using the 10.1 "Gala" version of Flash (with the hardware acceleration feature.) I love the HTML5 beta though, it's a perfect workaround, and is in about 60% of the videos I watch.

 

[bebitoes]

But this html5 trick doesn't work for me on embedded youtube movies in safari like on tuaw.com. any suggestion?

 

[bebitoes]

after the last flash update, this problem was solved for me.

 

[whooleytoo]

after the last flash update, this problem was solved for me.

I've 10.1.102, and it seems fixed for me. I can scroll 'over' the Youtube video on the front page of Macrumors even if it's playing.

(Slightly OT, but I've a similar problem in the iTunes store, whenever I scroll over those horizontal scrolling lists, the list scrolls sideways slightly and the vertical scrolling stops.)

 

[wd89]

(Slightly OT, but I've a similar problem in the iTunes store, whenever I scroll over those horizontal scrolling lists, the list scrolls sideways slightly and the vertical scrolling stops.)

Same here. I end up moving my fingers from the top right to the bottom left on my trackpad when scrolling so the horizontal things don't move. I much preferred it when there were little dots you clicked to see more content.

Edit: 100% OT... but is anyone annoyed when buying songs that the same version of the song can be either 59p, 79p or 99p - they are exactly the same so why the difference in price. The 99p versions almost always appear at the top of the list (indicating most people pay more). Not sure if this happens in the US. Surely there is some trading standards issue here. You don't go into a supermarket and look for the same item in 3 different places to find the cheapest!