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SOLVED Re: YouTube videos "hiccup" if I even so much as move the mouse (FF 104.0 64-bit OS X 10.13.6)

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From: dbrooks@runforyourlife.org (Dudley Brooks)
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Subject: SOLVED Re: YouTube videos "hiccup" if I even so much as move the
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Date: Sun, 28 May 2023 19:08:25 -0700
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by: Dudley Brooks - Mon, 29 May 2023 02:08 UTC

On 8/31/22 8:08 PM, Paul wrote:

> On 8/31/2022 6:46 PM, Dudley Brooks wrote:
>
>> On 8/31/22 3:15 PM, Dudley Brooks wrote:
>>
>>> On 8/30/22 3:29 PM, Nobody wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 26 Aug 2022 10:02:12 -0700, Dudley Brooks
>>>> <dbrooks@runforyourlife.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'll be watching a video just fine. But if I happen to move the
>>>>> mouse,
>>>>> the video will jump back to the beginning, play just a fraction of a
>>>>> second ... over and over. Each time it plays it seems to play a
>>>>> fraction of a second longer. Sometimes it will eventually (i.e. after
>>>>> MANY hiccups) start playing through. But at any stage of the process,
>>>>> it will spontaneously start the hiccuping again. ("Spontaneously"
>>>>> means
>>>>> that I'm not aware that *I* have done anything.)
>>>>>
>>>>> I was going to crosspost to alt.comp.os.mac ... but I don't have this
>>>>> problem in Chrome or Safari, so I'm guessing it's a purely FF problem.
>>>>
>>>> Mebbe this, per release notes for Ffox 104.0.1?
>>>>
>>>> <https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/104.0.1/releasenotes/>
>>>
>>> Thanks. I just checked and found that I have indeed been
>>> auto-updated to 104.0.1.
>>>
>>> As soon as I have time (hopefully soon) I will try YouTube again and
>>> see if the problem has been fixed.
>>
>> Nope. Not fixed. Still happening.
>>
>> The only way to prevent it is to keep the mouse somewhere off the main
>> screen, such as up in the menu.
>>
>> But if I accidentally move the mouse back onto the main screen (which
>> is very hard to avoid), the video still jumps back to the very beginning.
>
> Check and see if you have a third-party software as an addon
> to your system. The third post from the bottom here, resolved
> a problem like this, by removing an application called Magnet.
>
> https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?t=64636&p=366374
>
> And you may have to cross-post to a Mac group, as otherwise,
> we'll never find someone with the same Mac model number and
> OS version, to test this.
>
> Paul

Sorry I wasn't able to get back to this for such a long time.

Turns out it was an add-on video downloader called iTube Studio for Mac.

Disabling it solved the problem immediately!

Thanks, everyone, for all your suggestions.

--
Dudley Brooks, Artistic Director
Run For Your Life! ... it's a dance company!
San Francisco

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