Safari 16.4: 'Youtube' videos stopped to play automatically after i put the slider to any area i want to watch.

[azonicman]

Hi there,

Not sure if it's related to OS or Safari, so posting it here too:

Subject: Something went wrong after my 2019 MBP Intel Core i9 updated to Safari 16.4. 'Youtube' videos stopped to play automatically after i put the slider to any area i want to watch. Now I have to click 'Play' manually each time after i put the slider to the area that I need. It's very annoying, especially when you have to do that several times per 1 video. And yes, it's not an Auto-Play option(this one is Ok).

Just wonder if it's bug or something has happened to my Preferences, extensions etc. Help me please.
I have already tried to reset NVRAM/PRAM, SMC. As well as cleared all cache, cookies, history in Safari etc. Nothing helped me with that. BTW, the same issue is not reproduces in Chrome, it turns out to be Ok in there.

 

[MajorFubar]

I thought this was normal, unless YouTube has already buffered-ahead to the part you just skipped to, in which case it carries on automatically.

The worst part of YouTube is 'death by loading wheel', when I drag ahead to a portion of the video which YouTube hasn't yet buffered and it just freezes forever with the loading wheel spinning round. It will happily sit there forever until I refresh the page. For me, YouTube has been like this for years, across any-and-all browsers and across any-and-all platforms.

 

[azonicman]

I'm facing with it for the first time. During all these years earlier, before this update, I could easily drag the slider to any min/sec of the video, and it started to play automatically from that place. Now it's gone.

But, at the same time it continues to work as it should on my friend's MBPs with Intel and M1 after update to the same Safari 16.4.🧐

How to solve this problem?🆘🆘🆘

 

[bogdanw]

I thought this was normal, unless YouTube has already buffered-ahead to the part you just skipped to, in which case it carries on automatically.

No, it's not normal. It should continue playback. Here is Safari 16.4 in Monterey 12.6.4

How to solve this problem?

“clean Safari” AppleScript https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/safari-issues.2354917/post-31383169
You can use it as guide to what could be deleted.

 

[azonicman]

No, it's not normal. It should continue playback. Here is Safari 16.4 in Monterey 12.6.4
View attachment 2184801


“clean Safari” AppleScript https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/safari-issues.2354917/post-31383169
You can use it as guide to what could be deleted.

Believe me or not, I have successfully executed some of the commands from your script manually in Terminal, and it actually started to work again properly without stopping😳. Bingo.
BUT!, approx 30-60 min later the behavior turned out to stop again. I don't even know why. Nothing has happened from my side. Can you comment on that please?

BTW, some of the commands from your script are not permitted to execute(tried under 'sudo') as well as some folders/directories are absent on my side. Using macOS 13.3 + Safari 16.4.

 

[bogdanw]

BUT!, approx 30-60 min later the behavior turned out to stop again. I don't even know why. Nothing has happened from my side. Can you comment on that please?

A cache problem, not enough space on the disk? I really don't know.

BTW, some of the commands from your script are not permitted to execute(tried under 'sudo')

In Ventura, you have to give Terminal Full Disk Access for some commands.

as well as some folders/directories are absent on my side. Using macOS 13.3 + Safari 16.4.

I'm aware, that's why the script has try before each command, so it wouldn't return errors if the folder is not present. But they are useful for systems that have been upgraded from a previous version of macOS, let's say from Mojave to Ventura.

 

[azonicman]

A cache problem, not enough space on the disk? I really don't know.

550,41 GB available

In Ventura, you have to give Terminal Full Disk Access for some commands.

Done that. Then tried once again. It's the same: some folders/directories doesn't exist.

I'm aware, that's why the script has try before each command, so it wouldn't return errors if the folder is not present. But they are useful for systems that have been upgraded from a previous version of macOS, let's say from Mojave to Ventura.

The sequence was the following:
I was staying on macOS 12.6.4 -> Updated to latest safari 16.4 -> Youtube videos stopped work properly -> Ok, than it's time to update OS to 13.3 -> Updated. But issue remains the same((.

Terminal says "No such file or directory" for these commands:
"rm -r ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Safari.DiagnosticExtension"
"rm -r ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Safari.SafariQuickLookPreview"
"rm -r ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Safari.BrowserDataImportingService"
"rm -r ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari"
"rm -r ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari.SafeBrowsing"
"rm -r ~/Library/SafariSafeBrowsing"