Problems with Youtube videos and the site itself?

If you keep getting "HELLO, YOU EITHER HAVE JAVASCRIPT TURNED OFF OR AN

OLD VERSION OF ADOBE'S FLASH PLAYER....GET THE LATEST FLASH PLAYER":

don't bother downloading and re-installing the latest Flash over and over and over again.

You will get absolutely nowhere doing that, because that is only adding to the problem.

There are actually only 3 possibilities:

→ something's wrong with YouTube

→ something's wrong with your cache

→ something's wrong with Flash 10

YOUTUBE:

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Your problem might fix itself in a few hours, or the next day,

because YouTube actually shuts down a lot of their servers

every once in a while, (so they can update all kinds of stuff).

On those occasions, it's really YouTube's transmissions of

"JavaScript" and "Flash" which are poor, not your reception

of it. This in turn creates "time-out" or "run-time" errors that

give that message. You can sometimes fix this on the spot

by tapping "F5", clicking "Refresh", or clicking "Back" then

"Forward".

CACHE:

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If by the next day YouTube is still showing you that JS&FP

message, maybe your "temporary internet files" and cache

memory are full and cannot take anymore. As such, videos

can't even begin to buffer.

"Temporary internet files" are 1000s of little bits and pieces

of websites put on your hard-drive. They'll stay there forever,

slowly plugging up your computer, (like hair in a sink drain)

until you get rid of them. Otherwise, one day your YouTube

will suddenly be "stuck".

Because your computer now has such little space in which

to "cache" a video, YouTube will mistakenly think that your

JavaScript's "runtime environment" or "buffer overflow" is off,

or that you're using "Flash 7".

The solution to all that is to first exit YouTube (but not your

browser), then clear your "cache" of all its "TIFs", "cookies"

and "history". (See below.) After that, shutdown and reboot.

FLASH:

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Watching YouTube vids hasn't changed in the past 2 years.

(Believe it or not, you can still use "Flash 8" if you'd like to).

The newer Flash players are giving many YouTubers plenty

of grief -- particularly since there are 11 different "Flash 10s".

It's nuts that there is 10.0.525, 10.0.576, 10.1.218, 10.2.26,

10.2.54, 10.12.10, 10.12.36, 10.15.3, 10.22.87, 10.23.1, as

well as 10.32.18 now.

Most updates are good for only 1 thing:...Software conflicts.

I've never strayed away from 9.47, and many "flashers" use

9.45 still. Think of them as Windows XP compared to Vista.

Look at what the Asker said after this Best Answer of mine:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=200811...

If that seems interesting to you, here is the appropriate link:

http://www.oldapps.com/flash_player.php?old_flash_...

Note 1: if you've got an "Accelerator", dump it, burn it, rip it,

kick it, trash it, disable it, uninstall it...get as far away from

it as you can. Lots of "Messengers", "Ad Blocks" and even

"Torrents" also conflict with YouTube.

Note 2: some longer videos may need "Shockwave" to play

properly.

Note 3: if you downloaded Flash, did you actually complete

the process and INSTALL it? If you have Firefox or IE 8, did

you enable their plug-ins or add-ons?

Internet Explorer 6:

→ Tools → Internet Options

→ Delete Cookies → OK

→ Delete Files → OK

→ Clear History → Yes

→ OK

Internet Explorer 7:

→ Tools → Internet Options → Delete...

→ Delete files → Yes

→ Delete cookies → OK

→ Delete history → OK

→ Close (browsing history window)

→ OK

Internet Explorer 8:

→ Tools → Delete Browsing History

[. ] Preserve Favorites (leave blank)

[x] Temporary Internet files

[x] Cookies

[x] History

→ Delete

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

Apple Safari 3:

→ Edit → Preferences

→ Security (tab) → Show Cookies

→ Remove All → Done

after that:

→ Safari → Empty Cache → Empty

after that:

→ History → Clear History

Google Chrome:

→ Tools (wrench) → Clear browsing data...

[x] Clear browsing history

[x] Clear download history

[x] Empty the cache

[x] Delete cookies

Clear data from this period: → Everything

→ Clear Browsing Data

DON'T FORGET TO SHUTDOWN/REBOOT AFTER DOING

ONE OF THE SEQUENCES ABOVE.

I don't know about the first part, but the second part happens to me all the time... you need to upgrade the Flash Player or it won't play. YouTube practically makes a promotion for Flash Player so you upgrade it then some how you get interested in a membership and it goes on.

Same thing happens to me. It takes a long time to load, sometimes freezes, and other times the site says it's not functioning properly or something like that. I think its youtube's website thats doing it.