Can't load YouTube?!

Today I went to load YouTube and I can't get on. I tried everything I cleared my cache and cookies, booted Firefox in safe mode, so that only default settings were used, disabled all extensions and add ons. I did a clean reinstall of Firefox itself. I even created a new profile figuring the default one had corrupted files. I did everything that was suggested in the various help forums across the web. Nothing seems to fix this problem.

The odd thing, I got onto YouTube earlier by soft rebooting the PC. It worked half way ok, but the site was under maintenance so I figured that was the source of my problems but just before YouTube seized up on me again they finished their maintenance. So shouldn't the website work for me? The funny thing is Vista itself is operating fine, Firefox itself is working beautifully, and all other webpages are loading just fine. I normally don't have a problem like this with YouTube. If a page don't load I empty cache and away I go. But this time nothing is working. I can type in YouTube's URL but it hangs and the page never actually loads. Sometimes it appears like 5 minutes later but it's all *$%(ed up and not functional. All other webpages and websites in all my other tabs are working fine.

I had Firefox 3.5.5 when this problem started but I read that the latest version of Firefox has problems so I reverted back to 3.5.3 but that didn't help I even tried loading YouTube in Internet Explorer but that was a no go. I am really beginning to think their website is still messed up considering that early this morning YouTube was fine till about oh say 3-4 hours ago which is probably when they started their maintenance.

 

So the problem is on their end?

 

Not necessarily. Try it through an anonymous online proxy and see if it loads. If it does, its either a network issue on your ISP's end, or software on your machine causing the problem.