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Imac keeps freezing while playing youtube videos
Imac keeps freezing while playing youtube videos





imac keeps freezing while playing youtube videos

Many thanks for any help anyone can give me. One last step I am contemplating is wiping it and restoring it to the factory settings. I have a feeling it might just be getting too old. I have made numerous steps to counteract this such as Verifying and repairing disc permissions, downloading latest Flash (I can't download the absolute latest version as my mac OS doesn't support this). It doesn't like iTunes either and wiped that library due to a crash corrupting files.

imac keeps freezing while playing youtube videos

Recently it even spread to BBC iPlayer desktop where I could not watch that offline or online as it would freeze the whole mac. The freeze starts randomly but especially when doing something 'difficult' like watching a video, or opening numerous tabs. When it freezes i get the beach ball but can usually move the cursor. But it is still freezing, not as bad as usual, but its only a matter of time before it is completely unusable. But low and behold Firefox started freezing the mac again. I first started by uninstalling Chrome and using Safari instead. Over the past few months my mac has gone through stages of freezing when online but eventually spreads to using anything on the Mac will create a freeze (iPlayer desktop, finder, PS, iTunes).







Imac keeps freezing while playing youtube videos