Youtube problem, someone please help?

[noisygiraffe828]

I am a Chrome user and I have started experiencing problems on Youtube. The weird thing is, that it will only happens on occasional videos. When I click the fullscreen button, my screen kinda freezes and then the video slowly resizes to fit my screen. There is a message at the top saying "Youtube is now in fullscreen (esc)" The message disappears in a few seconds so it is not a problem until I try to pause the video. On firefox, I press the spacebar and the video is paused, I then would hit it again to resume the video. That is not the case when I run into this problem on Chrome. I could press space all day, but I still don't get a reaction, so I have to take my mouse and then move so the cursor shows up and then click. Also, when press escape, chrome does the whole pause and resize situation again. What is going on and how do I fix this? Why does only happen on certain videos? I have been searching the web for some solutions but none of them have worked so far. How can Google Chrome not work with one of google's products. This is insanity!

[Mason]

It's been happening to me to, but I noticed it mostly happens on videos that are 480p than others or when you change the quality of 480p. Idk what's causing that, could be stupid changes or google+ but who knows. Or it could be an issue with chrome and they might come with an update soon to fix it

[inukjuak90]

The quickest/easiest solution is to right-click a video -- and then click on "Settings".
The first tab will show you an icon of a monitor and ''Enable Hardware Acceleration".
Simply UNCHECK it, and everything should be fine.

Otherwise: your ''cache'', "virtual memory'' and/or "pagefiling'' are nearly clogged-up.
Simply delete your cache (along with your "cookies" and "history''), then shutdown
and reboot.  After doing all of the above, you'll freak at how good & trouble-free you
will be able to watch YouTube in full-screen.

→  ≡  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

Don't forget to totally shutdown+reboot afterwards.

:-)

Other possibilities + solutions:
Disable any Adblock utility, play a video; then re-enable your Adblock the next day.

There could be a Player conflict -- (like with Real Player, Pepperflash or Shumway).
If that's the case, disable/uninstall it, and when you need it back, simply reinstall it.

Disable your anti-virus program, since you can not get a virus from YouTube videos.

You may unknowingly be using "HTML5'' instead of "Flash''.  To be sure, click here:
http://www.youtube.com/html5  and opt out.