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How to get rid of youtube black screen?!? - 879 - 06-12-2014 08:36 AM
Please guys someone help me with this! I searched online for an hour now and they told me to download some extensions and I did but all I ever got was pop ups! Someone please help I think I may have caused a virus in my computer!
- Richard - 06-12-2014 08:37 AM
Make sure you have Adobe "Flash" installed.
- inukjuak90 - 06-12-2014 08:43 AM
a BLACK and EMPTY screen means your Cache, Memory or PageFiling are filled-up
and can't take any more -- or you may have conflicting ''cookies''. Â Simply delete your
Cache, Cookies and History; then clear your Memory with a shutdown & fresh reboot.
Afterwards, you'll freak at how good and trouble-free your YouTube will be.
Mozilla Firefox:
→  Tools  →  Options  →  Privacy ('key')  →  Clear Now
[x] Browsing History
[x] Cache
[x] Cookies
[x] Offline Website Data
[x] Authenticated Sessions
→  Clear Private Data Now
Google Chrome:
→  ≡  or wrench  → Tools  →  Clear browsing data
→  the beginning of time ▼
[x] Clear browsing history
[x] Empty the cache
[x] Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data
→  Clear browsing data
Internet Explorer 9 and 10:
→  Gear (icon)  →  Safety  →  Delete browsing history
[x] Temporary Internet files and website files
[x] Cookies and website data
[x] History
→  Delete
Internet Explorer 11:
→  Settings ('gear' icon on the far right side)  →  Options
(then under History)  →  "Select"
[x] Cached images
[x] Cookies
[x] Browsing History
→  Delete
Don't forget to completely shutdown & reboot afterwards.
Other possibilities + solutions:
-- Turn off your modem AND router for 30 seconds, and then turn them back on again.
-- Right-click any video, click "Settings" and uncheck "Enable Hardware Acceleration".
-- Disable any Adblock add-on, play a video; then re-enable the Adblock the next day.
-- There might be a Player conflict -- (like with Real Player, Pepperflash or Shumway)
   If that's the case, disable/uninstall it, and when you'd like it back, simply reinstall it.
-- Disable your AV utility while on YouTube, since you can't get a virus from YouTube.
-- You may unknowingly be using ''HTML5'' rather than "Flash''. To be sure, click here
   http://www.youtube.com/html5 and opt out.
:-)