I’ve been having a few issues with Youtube videos not playing in my Google Chrome browser. Instead, I just get a black screen and misery. I could, however, get those same videos to play on Internet Explorer.
This situation was beginning to irk me, so I did some rudimentary exploration around my Chrome place and found out that it was a Flash player plugin conflict which was causing the problem.
Having found that out, this is how I solved it.
- Check your plugins by typing chrome://plugins/ into the URL bar.
- Look for the Adobe Flash Player plugin. You may see that it says (2 files) after the plugin name. Therein lies your problem:
- I found that the easiest way around this was to Disable one of those files.
- To do that, look to the top right hand corner of the plugins tab and click the little + Details link.
- This will open up the individual files each of which will have a Disable link.
- Choose one to disable and… er… disable it. It will become greyed out.
- Restart your Chrome browser and test by looking at a page with a Youtube video on it.
Like this one, for example.
And there you go. Please leave thanks, comments and cold, hard cash in the comments section below.
Happy Youtubing.