How do I get my computer to play YouTube videos?

Question

Everytime I go to YouTube, it says that I must download the Flashplayer or that I have Javascript turned off. I have already downloaded the flashplayer and rebooted my computer. Does anyone know what I need to do to get the videos to play again? My computer used to play them.

Answer 1

If you can't see them download them. Just by using Firefox you can solve this problem.
To download videos from YouTube and any other site :
Get Firefox from http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
And then install the Download Helper extension from https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3006/
It works great for me.

Since the videos are in the .flv format you need to get a flv player. You can get a very good one (and completely free ) here http://www.download.com/FLV-Player/3000-2139_4-10505954.html?tag=tab_pub

Also you can use this site http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php and copy/paste the url's from the page with the video there but personally I'd recommend using Firefox

Firefox is the best !!!

And for movies and anything else use http://www.torrentportal.com/ and http://www.bittorrent.com/ and http://www.torrentspy.com/
To download from this site you need a torrent program like these :
BitComet http://www.bitcomet.com/ or
Azureus http://azureus.sourceforge.net/

Answer 2

My computing device stopped engaged on YouTube. It merely does not load the internet site wisely. i ultimately figured it out, that I had receintly replaced my laptop battery and in no longer having a battery, it had replaced the date and time interior the computing device. After resetting the date and time wisely returned, it began working returned. in some situations it is an effortless fix.

Answer 3

you have to go to my computer go to folder options,then file types tab then find swf,shockwave or what ever your looking for and change them to open with internet explorer.