If you are having issues with playing embedded YouTube video’s in Chrome whilst looking at certain sites, then as The Joker would say, It’s simple, we kill the cache.
I first noticed this last week but never got around to fixing it as I could just opt to watch the video on the main YouTube site instead. The issue didn’t happen in Firefox or IE.
Then this evening I was reading an article that had about 10 or so embedded videos, so figured it was time to fix it. Here’s how and it should only take you a few seconds to do:
Example of embedded video not working in Chrome (basically it just stops as soon as you start to play it)
Note: I am using the latest stable build of Chrome
First, select the Options icon located at the top right-hand corner of your browser
Next, select Settings
Scroll down to where you will see the link that says +Show advanced settings and select it
In this window, you will see a drop-down options window. Choose The beginning of time. Check the four top boxes (these are checked by default and then hit Clear browsing data
Restart your browser and you should be good to go. All we did here was to delete the cache that Chrome stores over time. Hopefully Google will fix this is the next update.
Works again:
If you have Google Chrome remember your passwords, then selecting the boxes in the last step won’t delete these. Unless of course you want to delete your password as well, then just check the relating box as well.
If this doesn’t work then Nikia in the comments has found another workaround that involves unchecking Use hardware acceleration when available. To do this, head back into the Advanced Settings area of Chrome, and uncheck the particular box as shown below. Thanks Nikia for the tip.
