anybody else having problems with youtube lately?

[magical thyme]

The past week or so, it takes forever and a day to download. Doesn't matter if I use IE or Chrome.

In the meantime, Chrome is putting up a banner saying it's not going to send updates starting soon (I'm on an antique laptop running Vista).

Since Netflix isn't going to support IE any more, I'm going to need a new browser. Any of them still support Vista?

[jonno99]

1. You can check for yourself:

Major sites:
http://downdetector.com

YouTube:
http://downdetector.com/status/youtube
(YouTube looks OK - for the moment...)

FYI - I find the comments section in the above to be helpful too...

[magical thyme]

2. s'ok! Googled and found an article about the Chrome change

it told me the best browser for me is Firefox.

Wow! Already on it...and everything is working sooo much better!

thanks anyway

[jonno99]

3. Great! I use FireFox as well...nt

[In_The_Wind]

4. I get the same notifications from Chrome.

Will we still be able to use it anyway?


Oh, and youtube was giving me fits earlier today.

[magical thyme]

10. the article I saw said we'll still be able to use it, but it will be insecure

and more open to hack attacks.

I switched to firefox tonight. It's working fine.

[femmocrat]

5. Yes. Very slow.

I can usually see it OK while viewing on youtube, but after the videos appear as links on DU, they are in super slow motion or have buffering.

[In_The_Wind]

6. I thought the slow motion thing was my computer.

I'm so glad it's not just me.

[femmocrat]

7. Me too!

I have a fairly new computer so I didn't know what caused it.

[In_The_Wind]

9. This computer is 10 years old.

I need a computer geek to figure this one out.

[trof]

8. Just the lube isn't as good as it was.