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Jul 18, 2010
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I was feeling very left out not having anything to complain about with my new 13" TB Pro but the good news is I have discovered a bug with YouTube and the TouchBar (apologies if it's already been addressed before)!

I have the TB set to show the Control Strip, and App controls when function is held down. In this configuration, when I watch pretty much any video, be it SD, 1080p or 4K, almost anytime if I move the cursor over the timeline, the arrow turns into the spinning wheel and I can't click anything on the page for about 5 seconds. It doesn't happen every time though. Once in a while I can move the cursor over the timeline and see the little thumbnails pop up, then I can run the cursor back and forth briefly but then the spinning wheel appears again. There is also sometimes a delay between going in and out of full screen.

However if I press the function key to briefly show the App controls, the spinning wheel goes and if I set the TouchBar to show app controls, the problem isn't there. It seems to be a bug with having the Control Strip displayed.

I've reported it to Apple. Hopefully an easy fix.

Should point out I am still very much enjoying the machine otherwise!

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