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Full Screen Youtube button doesn't work in Safari

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Nosrettap

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I recently upgraded to OS X Lion and now the youtube full screen button in the lower right hand corner of the video does not work. Such as on this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbxt7IZwx94

It works in other web browsers, namely Chrome, but it doesn't work in Safari. Note, I noticed this about the time Youtube updated their website so it may be an issue with youtube rather than my browser.

Help please!
 
I've been getting the same thing just recently. This just started this week, as far as I can tell. It may be a YouTube thing.
 
According to the YouTube site, you need to use your browsers full screen function for true full screen. (the arrows in the corner of safari. )
 
That still doesn't work (full screen safari on and full screen button doesn't work)
 
The Solution.....

I had this same annoying frustration for the past few weeks. I too began to have issues when Youtube upgraded their website.
Anyhow, after numerous attempts to delete and reinstall Safari and Adobe Flash w/ no success, I just dealt w/ it and settled for pressing control and popping out the video to enable fullscreen. Nevertheless, this was still very annoying...
That being said, today I tried harder to find a solution to solve the problem. I found out that Youtube and their experimentation w/ html5 automatically selects the trial of use of html when visiting if your pc or mac and browser meets their criteria.
To get to the point and the solution, just visit the link provided below and select to turn off the html5 trial.

This should solve all problems that many of us have been experiencing.
 
deziac said:
I had this same annoying frustration for the past few weeks. I too began to have issues when Youtube upgraded their website.
Anyhow, after numerous attempts to delete and reinstall Safari and Adobe Flash w/ no success, I just dealt w/ it and settled for pressing control and popping out the video to enable fullscreen. Nevertheless, this was still very annoying...
That being said, today I tried harder to find a solution to solve the problem. I found out that Youtube and their experimentation w/ html5 automatically selects the trial of use of html when visiting if your pc or mac and browser meets their criteria.
To get to the point and the solution, just visit the link provided below and select to turn off the html5 trial.

This should solve all problems that many of us have been experiencing.
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Same here. What link?
 
did you notice that the solution was posted above?

It's youtubes html5 implementation to replace flash. You can deactivate it by going to

youtube.com/html5
 
thundersteele said:
Interesting. You do have flash installed, right? I don't have flash in Safari, I know the fullscreen doesn't work on those videos that play in html5. For flash vids I use chrome... not a great solution, but I prefer it this way.
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Yes I have flash installed and the issue seems to have gone. Odd.
 
Still no success in getting YouTube videos to work. I did the HTML5 thing that didn't work any thing else!
 
Nvpatfan said:
Still no success in getting YouTube videos to work. I did the HTML5 thing that didn't work any thing else!
Click to expand...

It didn't work for me either.

I updated to iOS6 and it removed Youtube app.
Since then I'm watching Youtube within the browser (Safari and Chrome) and it seems impossible to remove the address bar and make it full screen.
That's really annoying.
I also installed the official Youtube app. but I think it's for iphone originally and even if you make it 2X, it still is not in full screen.

My daughter gets crazy!
Any help (on full screen issue) will be highly appreciated.

UPDATE:
Here's the solution (in my case).
I ran the browser (Safari), went to youtube.com, and LOGGED IN to my youtube account.
Now I have the full screen back!

Tried it again without logging in >> the same thing = no full screen.

Hope this helps in your case too.
 
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Same problem!

Anybody got a working solution? Some videos work.. Some don't!
 
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