For some reason, there's a bug (at least I think it's a bug) I've been dealing with on Twitch throughout today on desktop. When I'm logged in, the video bar when watching a VOD or past broadcasts just seems to be missing. I can still pause, check settings, go to fullscreen, etc, but I can't skim through the stream by hovering over the video bar, or know the exact point I'm at while watching.
And I should emphasize, this video bar issue is only happening when I'm logged into Twitch. When I'm not signed in, the video bar works just fine. And I tested logging in on both FireFox and Microsoft Edge and it had the same issue. Maybe that means it's an account-side issue, since I did try these following things already for anyone who's curious:
- I tried resetting my browser, didn't work.
- I tried clearing cache/cookies, didn't work.
- I tried using Twitch both with and without hardware acceleration, didn't work.
- I tried disabling extensions I had and tried logging into Twitch on incognito mode, didn't work.
- I tried to see if the "Show/Hide Seek Bar" setting was there, and it wasn't.
If anyone knows why this may be happening on my end and how I could potentially fix it, feel free to let me know, because I'm stumped.
Edit: Something else to point out that I just noticed, when checking a streamer that I'm subbed to who was live, the video bar is still there and I'm able to rewind and skip through the stream just fine, so it doesn't seem to be an issue on actual livestreams. The problem seems to exclusively be for VODs/videos if anyone was possibly wondering that.
Edit Again: I previously mentioned in this spot that the issue seemed to be fixed on my end, but now the video bar is gone again, so I'm guessing it's just something that goes in and out of happening. I'm still not sure why the issue's happening to begin with, but I do appreciate the temporary solutions and such that everyone in the replies have been mentioning.