YouTube not working on Safari

[AppleLight]

Youtube videos aren't loading for me on Safari. It just brings up the page and the video doesn't load. Or sometimes it'll load like 5 seconds of it.

I've tried deleting and reinstalling Safari but it's the same. Repaired permissions, Clean my Mac, iDefrag to no avail.

Youtube works fine on FireFox.

Any ideas?

 

[simsaladimbamba]

Reset Safari yet?
Does YT work in other browsers?

And to the CleanMyMac part:

One app that I would not recommend, based on the number of complaints that have been posted in this forum and elsewhere, is CleanMyMac. As an example: CleanMyMac cleaned too much.

 

[AppleLight]

Yup reset Safari. And yes it does work in other browsers.

What's even stranger is that it works on embedded videos on forums, but not the website itself.

This started a couple of days after youtube got it's redesign.

 

[simsaladimbamba]

Tried uninstalling and reinstalling Flash?
Best way to FULLY DELETE a program

 

[AppleLight]

Yeah tried that just now... didn't work. Any other suggestions? I might have to quit using Safari..

 

[simsaladimbamba]

Yeah tried that just now... didn't work. Any other suggestions? I might have to quit using Safari..

What Mac OS X version do you use? Maybe CleanMyMac cleaned too much on your system too?

 

[AppleLight]

10.7.2 Lion.

Could be, but that doesn't explain why FireFox lets me watch it no problem. Other websites like megavideo don't have a problem, but YouTube...

 

[GGJstudios]

Youtube videos aren't loading for me on Safari. It just brings up the page and the video doesn't load. Or sometimes it'll load like 5 seconds of it.

I've tried deleting and reinstalling Safari but it's the same. Repaired permissions, Clean my Mac, iDefrag to no avail.

• As already mentioned, CleanMyMac is a bad idea. I recommend you uninstall it, using the link posted by simsaladimbamba in post#4.
  
• Also, you don't need to defrag on Mac OS X, except possibly when partitioning a drive.
  About disk optimization with Mac OS X
  

  You probably won't need to optimize at all if you use Mac OS X.

• With regard to YouTube videos and Safari, find your Flash version and make sure it's the latest version available.
  
• Make sure you don't have any ad-blockers interfering with Flash, such as ClickToFlash, which controls which Flash content plays on websites.
  
• As an alternative, you could use the YouTube HTML5 Video Player.

 

[AppleLight]

• As already mentioned, CleanMyMac is a bad idea. I recommend you uninstall it, using the link posted by simsaladimbamba in post#4.
  
• Also, you don't need to defrag on Mac OS X, except possibly when partitioning a drive.
  About disk optimization with Mac OS X
  
  
• With regard to YouTube videos and Safari, find your Flash version and make sure it's the latest version available.
  
• Make sure you don't have any ad-blockers interfering with Flash, such as ClickToFlash, which controls which Flash content plays on websites.
  
• As an alternative, you could use the YouTube HTML5 Video Player.

Thank you!!!

It turns out I was somehow joined to the HTML5 trials which was messing it up. So I left the trial and it's working fine now. Cheers!

 

[GGJstudios]

Thank you!!!

It turns out I was somehow joined to the HTML5 trials which was messing it up. So I left the trial and it's working fine now. Cheers!

Glad you got it sorted!

 

[jbowie]

Wow

Wow, that "YouTube HTML5 Video Player" fix worked for me too.

YOUTUBE has an idea... "Hey, let's sign a bunch of people up for this video player that doesn't work & then see what happens!" YOUTUBE staff..."Hmmm, that sounds like a great idea! People will have no clue we changed it & be completely confused when their players mess up!"

If you are having issues with youtube not playing through Safari, click the HTML 5 player link above and you're probably signed up for this junk.

Thanks APPLELIGHT!

 

[stchman]

Just use Flash, it gets the job done.

 

[gtfxxx]

This worked for me.

I had the same issue, turning toggling html5 on and off didnt help.

Reinstalling Safari didnt help either.

Resetting Safari didnt work either.

The only thing that worked was running 'Disk Utility' and I 'Repaired Disk Permissions'. That fixed the issue for me.

Hope that helps.