This has been one of the slowest days on the forum in a long time. IMO

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(vikm) wrote:
Oh, here's this. I have a tech question that maybe can be answered here or if not, I'll start a new thread.

I periodically experience problems viewing Youtube vids in my browsers. It just shows a black screen and refuses to start the track. I am running the most recent OS, browser updates, etc. I do leave my iMac on pretty much 24/7 with multiple browser windows open at a time (some stuffed off in the dock) with multiple tabs in each. I'm assuming it's just a memory issue of some sort. Likely? If I quit out of the browser and relaunch, it will fix the problems most times but not always. Any ideas (other than don't do what I've been doing)? Thanks.

http://www.youtube.com/html5

Mac Users have been defaulted into YouTube's Html5 trial (could be different by now). If it sniffs that you're using a Mac, it will serve up Html5 instead of Flash. Generally, if you opt out of the trial, it'll work more smoothly.