OS X 10.10 Safari Users Complaining Of YouTube Incompatibility

It seems that whoever does the quality control over at Apple in the software department really needs to do their job better. Not only have users been plagued with buggy iOS 8 updates, it looks like OS X is no exception to the rule. In fact you might recall that it wasn’t too long ago that OS X 10.10 users were complaining of WiFi issues.

Apple had issued an update that was supposed to fix it only that it didn’t work that way for some users, and now according to reports it looks like there could be Safari-related issues as well. The reports are claiming that they are experiencing a sudden incompatibility with YouTube while trying to view it from the Safari browser.

The problems include advertisements on YouTube failing to load or play, which then prevents users from moving forward to the actual video. There have also been complaints about a discordant sound being played without any video, and in the most extreme cases, it has been known to cause Safari to crash.

These users report that when switching to an alternative browser like Chrome or Firefox, there are no issues. This was tested using developer tools to change Safari’s identification to that of a different browser and found that when this was done, YouTube on Safari worked. It has been speculated that a recent security patch issued by Apple is to blame for this.

While we’re still waiting for Apple to finally issue an update to address this issue, in the meantime anyone else having a problem with Safari on their OS X 10.10 computers as well?

Tyler Lee
Categories: Apple, Computers
Tags: OS X 10.10, safari, YouTube