Anyone else having oodles of trouble with YouTube lately ??

[eppur_se_muova]

I'd never paid much attention to YouTube previously, but recently I found some music videos I didn't even know existed and bookmarked them. I've played all of them a few times, but for the last several days I have been able to play *anything* on YouTube. I keep getting the message "An error occurred. Please try again later." and a link to "learn more" (not useful). At first, it seemed that repeatedly loading the page would eventually fix the problem, but I had videos that quit in the middle. Performance has just kept degrading until I can no longer play *anythiing* in YouTube. I have tried disabling all add-ons, blockers, etc. but that hasn't helped at all.

Any ideas? Is anyone else having similar problems?

Im using Firefox 45.0.2, which I upgraded to a few days ago. I think it *might* be part of the problem, but I haven't seen a newer release yet.

I'm running OS X 10.7 on a Core2Duo iMac. I have used YouTube without much trouble even on 10.6.8, so I don't think the age of the OS is the issue.

[applegrove]

1. I found after a bit that the videos I liked would skip a bit. I started watching the ads and low and

behold the skipping stopped. Try watching the ads.

[eppur_se_muova]

3. I didn't even know there were ads.

I tried to turn off every blocker and filter there was but still can't get them to load properly on the iMac. Can load and view in Lubuntu but that computer doesn't have speakers ...

[In_The_Wind]

2. Yes! I'm getting messages asking if my playback hesitates. Surprise! Then is freezes.

My computer is very old but nothing is missing ... like a "drive". I find that I have better luck after closing that window and opening a new one.

[Egnever]

4. Try clearing your cache

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-clear-firefox-cache

[eppur_se_muova]

5. Thanks, I'll try that if it happens again ...

I spent most of yesterday "retrograding" to 10.6.8, and the problem has magically gone away ... and YouTube doesn't seem to care about AdBlocker either.