MacBook woes

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Hi Folks, my wife and I both have MacBooks (I know, a luxury but it stops us fighting...) but my one has stopped letting me go onto YouTube (hers is fine). My teenage daughter has a habit of borrowing it but on a rare occasion when she spoke to me she has promised she hasn't done anything to it...

Whenever I try and open YouTube it says "The application Safari has quit unexpectedly". Is anyone clever enough to tell me what might be up and what I can do about it please?

Thanks, RH

Download and install another browser - Firefox or Opera.

By a pc laptop.

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Dunno about Apple but it sounds like flash player is playing up

Can you uninstall and reinstall the flash plugin?

I presume you're running OSX 10.5 - Leopard?

This is a flash and Leopard issue - upgrading to Snow Leopard should fix it, AFAIK. My bro has this problem with his macbook and youtube, he has research and requested I upgrade his machine to Snow Leopard based on his findings. If you've a Macbook with a 64bit processor, you'll reap the benefits of the upgrade.

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Oh dear, I just knew i was going to have to learn a new language if I tried to sort this...all I know is my one is older than hers.....

Boot, thanks, I might be able to at least look into that....I'll give it a go.

go to apple store, ask for snow leopard, pay like £20, install, enjoy new features and youtube , but yes it does sound like one of the plugins are breaking, hence making the browser exit! simple

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Originally Posted by boot

I presume you're running OSX 10.5 - Leopard?

This is a flash and Leopard issue - upgrading to Snow Leopard should fix it, AFAIK. My bro has this problem with his macbook and youtube, he has research and requested I upgrade his machine to Snow Leopard based on his findings. If you've a Macbook with a 64bit processor, you'll reap the benefits of the upgrade.

OK mate,where do I find out what I am running. You really are dealing with a complete novice when it comes to computers...

apple logo in top corner < , "about this mac", i belive all of the Intel chip macbooks are 64bit, should give the operating system version also, mines snow leopard and its 10.6.3

Originally Posted by warrenhewitt10

apple logo in top corner < , "about this mac", i belive all of the Intel chip macbooks are 64bit, should give the operating system version also, mines snow leopard and its 10.6.3

What he said.

Have a look at what came with your wife's mac, she might have a Snow Leopard disk that you could use in yours. Otherwise, you're looking at £25 to upgrade, unless you follow slightly less commendable routes of obtaining it.