Hello! This ain't game related, but you guys are the smartest people I can think of so I thought of this forum when I ran into this problem... Youtube Error (screenshot) What could be causing this? I've never seen it before... This is what I see when I go to youtube dot com. I can't view any videos on youtube, because I get a "don't have Flash installed" error. But if I go to a website where a Youtube video is embedded, I can play the video just fine. Have any of you ever seen this error before? If so, what'd you do to fix it? I have WinXP Pro, IE 8, security/privacy settings are set to default. The problem started with IE 7, so I updated to IE8 but the problem persists. Thanks in advance for the help!

Happens to me occasionally on Firefox OS-X. I simply restart my browser and everything is usually fine. I suspect it is a css file loading issue, but I really don't know.

I'm just going to have a stab and say that the eye icon, with the blocked icon in front, at the bottom of your browser suggests that your privacy settings are affecting your viewing of the site.

Thanks for the replies!

smc, the problem continued to happen after I restarted the computer and then upgrade to IE 8... Restarting didn't get it to work again. Crud!

Mr Explody (cool name), I do have the security/privacy settings cranked up for this screenshot (so my youtube name doesn't appear in the screenie), but I get the same problem when the security/privacy settings are set to default too.

I think my Youtube problem started after my IE7 crashed (it locked up and I had to ctrl-alt-del to kill the browser window), but that may be a coinkidink because updating to IE8 should have cleared out any crash-related iffy-ness. Er, I think. [wink]

Quote: Original post by Dookie
Youtube Error (screenshot)

Yeah, screenshot looks like a missing style sheet (or a failure to render it).
Does clearing the cache do anything?

Try ctrl+shift+r for a hard refresh. Whenever I don't get the CSS to load that always fixes it for me. //edit oh wait IE doesn't have that. ah oluseyi said it's ctrl + f5. Maybe that might work.

Quote: Original post by Sirisian
Try ctrl+shift+r for a hard refresh. Whenever I don't get the CSS to load that always fixes it for me. //edit oh wait IE doesn't have that. ah oluseyi said it's ctrl + f5. Maybe that might work.

F12 (Developer Tools) → Cache has a bunch of useful features, including the tickable "Always Refresh from Server".

Huh, now it works...

I didn't do a thing, just tried it again today and youtube worked. I didn't turn off my computer overnight, either. Wonder if youtube was doing some updating, because it looks a little different from the way it did before the weirdness. Or, I wonder if my antivirus running overnight hogged up enough memory to cause Windows to automatically flush its caches? I dunno, but I'm glad it works! I thought that IE crash messed up my system, and I really didn't want to do ANOTHER OS reinstall.

Thanks for the ideas and suggestions, I appreciate it!