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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021 8:42 PM

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Safari 15 cannot open Xfinity stream on the iMac

It hangs on the buffering screen when I try to stream Xfinity TV on the Xfinity website.  Only occurred once I updated to Apple's latest browser, Safari 15.

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3 years ago

I too am having this problem on my Mac but streaming works on iPhone and iPad which were also upgraded .

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Hello@user_f71494! We are aware of this issue with Safari 15 and working to get it resolved. For the moment you'll need to use a different browser. Thank you for your patience and understanding.  

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2 Messages

3 years ago

can't stream Xfinity on any browser, on my Mi MacBook Air. Safari, Chrome, Firefox.  This started since the Safari update.  :-/ Streamed fine, on all three, a week ago...

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@magtimmag

Try Chrome again.  That's working fine for me on both my Mac mini and MacBook Air.

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3 years ago

please no more replies it’s not getting fixed

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12 Messages

3 years ago

I'm having the same problem since they updated Safari.  I've had to with over to Google Chrome. Yuck!

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3 years ago

I'm having this issue too, but it goes beyond Safari.  With Safari, it never connects (just buffers).  With Firefox, Edge and Chrome, I get through the initial parts of the menu, but when I pick a program, I get a brief "Attempting to resume....." message, followed by a "Cannot play video...." Player error 9001.  I have tried problem-solving with Apple, but they noted that since I was experiencing issues in several browsers, it was most likely an Xfinity issue.  When talking to Xfinity, they didn't seem to know anything about the issue, although this forum would certainly indicate that it must be a known issue by now.  BTW, I have no problems playing video from other sources like YouTube and Facebook.  Very frustrating.

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@Overby Interesting.  I have zero problem with Chrome. When I'm skipping forward it will occasionally freeze, but all I have to do is skip back one.  I hate to say it but one way I prefer Chrome is that I stay logged into basically until I close the window. With Safari and Xfinity I was forever having to log back in if I checked an email or something. With Chrome , I can come back a day later and still be logged in.  My money says it's an issue with Safari. Apple changed something.

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I'm beginning to wonder if, at least on my machine, it's a problem with how well (or not) Xfinity Live TV works with MacOS 11.6

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4 Messages

3 years ago

I have this problem on Mac mini 2020 (M1) and Mac mini 2018 (Intel). Once signed in to Xfinity, the browser window is stuck at "Now connecting to your entertainment experience" over three pulsing dots. That's it. Never recovers. This happens on Safari 15.0 on macOS Big Sur 11.6. I also ran into problems with Firefox (92.0.1), though the symptoms were a bit different. On Firefox, you can see the For You and Saved > Recordings pages, but would get stuck (pulsing dots) attempting to play the recorded program. Using Google Chrome (94.0.4606.61) I was able to play recorded programs, and strangely, after returning to Firefox (92.0.1) the recorded program also began to play there as well, after re-opening from Saved > Recordings. I have to say, I don't care whose fault it is. But Xfinity does tout "Watch Anywhere" as a big feature. I would expect that Xfinity reps would stop trying to push this problem back on to their customers and work closely with Apple to resolve the issue. As the latest release of Big Sur and Safari were pushed to fix very serious security issues, Xfinity recommending customers "roll back" to earlier versions, even if possible, is a VERY BAD suggestion and speaks of a lack among Xfinity representatives to take this problem seriously. Do your jobs!

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3 years ago

I am having the very same problem.  Updated to Safari 15 and now cannot open Xfinity stream on my iMac.

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3 years ago

To Everyone:

I downloaded the "Friendly Streaming Browser" from the Apple App Store to my MacBook Pro.  It was very quick to download and very simple to set-up/use.  Xfinity Streaming works fine (as well as any other streaming service you may use).  Problem solved for now while I wait for Apple and Xfinity to work out their compatibility issues :)  

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@user_7464eb This is a work-around, not a solution to the problem. It appears Apple Safari 15 is causing havoc with a couple other sites I often visit. Not sure if they have put forward a security standard where not everyone is up-to-date on.

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Correct.  Poor choice of words on my part.  This is a work-around.

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@user_7464eb just tried the friendly streaming app i had never heard of and it works on my MacBook Air 2018 edition well.  So does Firefox and Google Chrome.  Prefer Safari & believe the prob will eventually be resolved since so many are having same issue.

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3 years ago

Sorry, your solution did not work for me.

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@ouijaboy 

Bummer, sorry it is not working for you...the "Friendly Streaming Browser" works fine with Xfinity Streaming on my MacBook Pro.   I am actually watching TV right now! 

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5 Messages

and TV streaming works on that Apple friendly streaming browser app too!  Apple passes the buck to Comcast and Comcast blames Apple.  May take time for this to be resolved though.  The buck has to stop somewhere & cd be some incompatibility issue between Apple & CCast?

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3 Messages

3 years ago

Thank you for the Friendly Streaming App work around! Works great on my IMAC for which there are not many apps period. I am so disappointed in Apple support. They used to be the best and now I’m afraid they have joined the ranks of Xfinity’s customer service & this is NOT a compliment! 

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7 Messages

3 years ago

I have the same problem, why can't you fix this?  It works on  Chrome and Firefox

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3 years ago

I did the suggestion an earlier poster recommended.  Went to Mac App Store downloaded "Friendly Streaming Browser".  I added tv.xfinity.com and that works just fine, and because it is a stripped-down streaming browser only, it is saving me tons of RAM usage compared to Chrome, Safari, etc.  I'm using it on my iMac after having updated to the latest IOS and Safari versions for the security fixes.  Safari, Chrome, and Firefox will NOT stream xfinity since the updates.  But this Friendly Streaming Browser works great and I plan to use it going forward even when the rest are fixed because of the extreme RAM savings.

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@FrustratedStrmr 

My bill just jumped $40 a month. Why [Edited: "Language"] should I have to download yet another thing on my computer and ask my students to do the same because Xfinity can't fix this?

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@FrustratedStrmr glad my suggestion worked out for you! Hopefully they get this sorted out sooner than later. 

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@FrustratedStrmr   hadn't thought about RAM usage so glad u mentioned that!  Just tried Firefox again and yes on my 2018 MacBook Air it streams xfinity TV fine after recent OS update to 11.6 !  Am hopeful that between Apple & Comcast techs will figure this out.  Just hope I'm still alive when they do 😂 since i'm 74 now!  We all need some humor these days!

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10 Messages

I just tried Firefox and was also successful, after it not working on Firefox even just yesterday.

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3 years ago

Same Problems here also. 

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3 years ago

I have a brand new iMac 24" with latest updates and my xfinity Team stopped working last week.  Comcast has no solution.  Very frustrating!

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2 Messages

3 years ago

yes - i am having the same problem 

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