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Youtube no longer plays smoothly. Worked perfectly up until yesterday? HELP please!?
October 29, 2010
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Have you tried reinstalling flash?
You may also have a problem with the browser itself. Try using Google Chrome.
getting a faster connection will help…
else..
Try refreshing the webpage
or…
Turn off web accelerator, if you have one – it may be conflicting with youtube.
or..
It could be due to slow connection or high traffic.
Try watching it during off peak hours, the video will be smoother.
Or you could watch it offline smoothly… try using ‘zillatube’ .
It works very well….just google search for "zillatube", and select the first search result for download…
The cause of your problem is simple: Your "cache"
memory and "temporary internet files" are full.
If you are experiencing either: A) slugglish loading
and buffering, B) "choppy" videos which frequently
start/stop/start/stop, C) the YouTube dotted circle
looking like it might spin for ever, or D) videos that
will sometimes come to a sudden "stop" or freeze,
that is often a sign that your cache/memory is full
and cannot take anymore.
Exit out of YouTube (but not your browser) and do
one of the steps below. Afterwards, shutdown and
reboot. Not only will this "free up" your computer’s
memory, everything will be "fresh", and load faster:
Mozilla Firefox 3:
→ Tools → Clear Private Data
[x] Browsing History
[x] Download History
[x] Saved Form and Search History
[x] Cache
[x] Cookies
→ Clear Private Data Now
Mozilla Firefox 3.5:
→ Tools → Clear Recent History
Time range to clear: → Everything
▼ Details
[x] Browsing & Download History
[x] Saved Form and Search History
[x] Cookies
[x] Cache
→ Clear Now
DON’T FORGET TO SHUT DOWN AND REBOOT
AFTER DOING ONE OF THE ABOVE.
If you have other applications which are running at
the same time, those will slow down YouTube too.
If you have "Torrents", you might want to consider
closing or uninstalling them. A couple people who
chose me as "Best Answer" wrote that everything
worked great after they’d uninstalled their Torrents.
For some reason, simply closing them didn’t work.
Also, "Adblock Plus", various Instant Messengers
and every "stupid video accelerator" under the sun
is known to interfere with YouTube.
Another thing you may want to consider is turning
off your anti-virus — but only momentarily. As long
as you remain on YouTube (and don’t scamper off
to other websites), you will be okay, because you
cannot get a virus from YouTube.