Poor Youtube performance?

[BaldyUK]

Is anyone else having issues of poor Youtube performance since updating to Yosemite?

If I try and skip to a different part of a video it buffers for a long time, if it actually skips at all.

It was working fine with Mavericks. I know it's a beta etc but wondered if anyone else has experienced this and if there's a solution.

Thanks

 

[leman]

Yosemite's Safari uses the HTML5 player per default, which means better battery life compared with the flash version. However, there do seem to be some occasional glitches when changing playback. I have no idea whether its a bug in Safari or a problem with the player itself. You should submit a bug report.

 

[BaldyUK]

Yosemite's Safari uses the HTML5 player per default, which means better battery life compared with the flash version. However, there do seem to be some occasional glitches when changing playback. I have no idea whether its a bug in Safari or a problem with the player itself. You should submit a bug report.

Yeah, thanks that was the problem. Safari 8 defaults to the HTML5 player in Youtube, changed the user agent back to 7.1 and using the flash player again and it's working perfectly again.

 

[huggs22222]

flash player 15 beta works well in yosemite on my 5 year old macbook.Can be downloaded from adobe labs.
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer.html

 

[MartinAppleGuy]

Flash really just needs to been shown the door by HTML 5. On it's way out, let h.265 in

 

[huggs22222]

Flash really just needs to been shown the door by HTML 5. On it's way out, let h.265 in

Completely agree. I,m loving HTML 5 pic and the audio is amazing.H.265 is the way to go though with high quality and small file size.

 

[MartinAppleGuy]

Completely agree. I,m loving HTML 5 pic and the audio is amazing.H.265 is the way to go alright.

The problems I have with Flash is that it is just so un-optimised. Want to get your fans as loud as possible on your new Mac Pro, don't edit 4K video or play a game, watch a Youtube video in Flash instead! I hate that it only survives just because it has the Adobe name.