Need Youtube help

[Dadillac]

Okay I am far from computer literate. I can get by but it is a struggle. So I check Youtube pretty much daily to kill my down time. When I open Youtube it shows 4 videos across in thumbnails and then I can scroll down. When I hover over a thumbnail the video will play. There is a scroll bar at the bottom. Up until today when I place my mouse cursor on the scroll bar a smaller box would pop up to show what will be playing at that spot in the video. Made skipping very easy. Today that smaller box no longer pops up. I hope I explained that correctly. What gives? How can I get the skip function back? Thanks

Don

 

[Jetronic]

they don't show that for every video in the thumbnails

 

[Hall]

YouTube behaves differently based on the OS you're running, the browser you're running, the size of your browser window, if they're introduced a new change or feature (to some users but not all), and on and on and on.

What I'm saying is, just adjust to however it's working today. You might have to change that in a week too.

 

[Vil_Riker]

It still does that for me.

 

[ARCOgraphite]

Are you signing into your Google/YT account first? Doing that sometimes can give you more functionality.

BTW, This is not "computer literacy", it's just general tips and tricks for navigating a specific application.

 

[ARCOgraphite]

I just tried YT, it's just showing a 3-second highlight snippet when I hover the mouse. I have to open the video to get full functionality.

But YT Short will show a scroll bar.

This happens logged in to my account or not. Running YT in Win 11 in and Edge browser (skinned chrome says my developer nephew)

 

[Dadillac]

I am Windows 11 and Firefox browser. Not sure what version but it is up to date. I can watch most videos just by putting my cursor on the video thumbnail. No need to open them. Even when I open them starting yesterday I no longer have the scroll bar video box pop up to show what is happening at that point in the video. Something changed and I am not sure what it is. When I am watching a 30 minute plus video most of them have a ton of "fluff" that I would rather skip past. That is where the small video box comes in handy

Don

 

[Dadillac]

Are you signing into your Google/YT account first? Doing that sometimes can give you more functionality.

BTW, This is not "computer literacy", it's just general tips and tricks for navigating a specific application.

I will try logging out and logging back in.

Don

 

[Dadillac]

And today it is back to working.

Don

 

[Hall]

What I'm saying is, just adjust to however it's working today. You might have to change that in a week too.

And today it is back to working.

Not surprised....

 

[Dadillac]

Not surprised....

Yeah a couple times before the scroll bar disappeared on me and there was a Firefox issue that I had to correct. I kind of thought that this was a similar issue. But Google didn't lead me anywhere

Don

 

[ARCOgraphite]

Mine is back to working also - on an Edge browser. I don't use the site that way, so never noticed until you mentioned it.