YouTube progress bar shows previous video when scrubbing

[DMG35]

I'm having an issue with Safari and YouTube and wondered if anyone might know a fix for this. If I open a video in YouTube in Safari, it won't let me scrub through the progress bar anymore. It just shows random clips of the video while I'm scrubbing through it and won't allow me to see the video progress in the bar as I try to move further into a video. Then if I click a new video, it will continue to show the same clips from previous video if I scrub through the progress bar.

It doesn't do this in Chrome, only in Safari. I'm using YouTube Premium as well. Does anyone know a fix for this?

 

[BanditoB]

Have you tried clearing Safari's caches? Clearing the browser's cache is usually the first thing that you want to do when they misbehave and it is the starting point for troubleshooting.

Go to the Safari menu and select Clear History... then I would select All History in the Clear options and click on the Clear History button to execute it. Following that, quit Safari, then restart Safari and try YouTube again.

 

[DMG35]

Have you tried clearing Safari's caches? Clearing the browser's cache is usually the first thing that you want to do when they misbehave and it is the starting point for troubleshooting.

Go to the Safari menu and select Clear History... then I would select All History in the Clear options and click on the Clear History button to execute it. Following that, quit Safari, then restart Safari and try YouTube again.

Thank you for the suggestion. I've tried that and it doesn't fix it. I have blazing fast internet and am running the latest version of Monterey so I have no idea what's causing it. It works fine on Chrome and Safari Tech Preview so I can just use one of them I guess.

 

[BanditoB]

Hmm...sounds like something is corrupt in your Safari installation. The only way I know of to fix that is to do a reinstall of MacOS over your existing installation.

 

[DMG35]

Hmm...sounds like something is corrupt in your Safari installation. The only way I know of to fix that is to do a reinstall of MacOS over your existing installation.

That did the trick! Thank you for the recommendation, working as it should now. Appreciate you!

 

[BanditoB]

Cool! I'm glad you were able to resolve it.