[rotuts]

Im on an older iMac : 27" late 2013 3.5Ghz core i7 w 16 GB ram

running safari 9.1.3 ( there are no further updates I can find for this iMac

YouTube was runnning fine until a couple of days ago

now when i go to my bookmarks I get this message :

" your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats available
click here to visit our frequyently asked questions about HRML 5 vodeo "

however , when I embed these same links in a cooking forum I frequent ,

the link on the thread has the image of the Youtube video and it plays fine in this same set up.

any ideas on what changed ? I think it has to do w YouTube and perhaps some sort of ad blocking

that they now refuse to accept.

I DL'd Opera and the videos play fine in that program

but a get a slew of vidoe ads I have to watch first.

any help getting back to watching yhoutube as I did in the past would be helkpful

and yes the imac is old, but Im old a nice match !

I amconsidering getting a new iMac .............

many thaks

[reader50]

What OS are you running? Your iMac supports Sierra (and High Sierra). I have Safari 10.1.2 on Sierra. When I check my old Yosemite partition, it has Safari 10.0.3.

If you really are limited to Safari 9.1.3, then you must be on an unsupported older OS. But this sounds more like a glitch. Could your Dock icon be connected to an old Safari on another volume, with modern Safari in your Applications folder?

[rotuts]

my safari worked fine on Bookmarks to YouiTube then

I got the safari doesnt support HTML etc

but it clearly does vis ref's to those same youtube vids vis the foodforum I go to.

the dock safari brings up 9.1.3 and that same safari runs the youtube ref'd in the newsgroup

this is so odd

the app safari is the same.

but a good suggestion !

I have a genius appt wed

and Im putting 10.12 on an external drive to see if 10.12 runs all my sofware

Unison ( legacy ) and EyeTV etc

I was warned that 10.10 - 12 mightrun very slowly on this iMac ( 2013 4 K monitor screen

Id sure love to fix this one problem !

[Thorzdad]

I have Safari 9.1.3 on an even older iMac ( Late 2009, running 10.9.3) and it does YouTube just fine.

[The Final Dakar]

I ran into this issue a few days ago as well. Try disabling clicktoflash if you have that extension running.

[rotuts]

birlliant

that woked

however i get an ad first , But I click skip ad

no the end of the world

I do ahve AdBlocker

Ill make sure that's on

many thaks !

[rotuts]

id disabled all extensions

with click to flash off and ad-blocker on

Im back to wher i wanted to be

many thanks