Flash Player (read-only)

Hi, all I'd really like to see an official message from Adobe concerning the issue with Flash9b.ocx crashing in IE. Surely they must have received a lot of messages from disgruntled users. I work for an online newspaper and we have several hundred thousand page impressions every day. And for lots of users our front page causes the Flash player to crash. It's practically impossible to isolate which banner ad(s) that will lead to a crash. My theory is that there are certain ActionScript commands that are handled in a different manner in the new player, while swfs that contain only animation will work. -+ Asp +-

I have been trying to install Flash Player for three days now. I have gone through every support step that was listed and still I can't see any content. Started with the install, didn't work; next came the unistall and reinstall didn't work. Upgraded browser, didn't work. Checked IE settings, didn't work. Checked Admin access, didn't work. Look in registry (as per adobe support instructions), nothing wrong. I also have Norton Internet Utilities and I went into the firewall settings and allowed all active x and flash content, still nothing. Please, please, please, help!

I have installed flash player 9 on my computer. according to adobe's website it's installed however any time i go to a website requiring flash it says that i need to download flash player 9. i have tried to uninstall and reinstall several times yet the same symptoms occur. the weird thing is that there are two user accounts on my computer. one of them has no problem with flash and the other account does. i've tried setting up a new user account to see if flash would work on another account and it will not. all of the user accounts have administrator rights. i am really confused at this point and don't know what else to try. i am also running ie7 and this problem didn't start until i downloaded ie7. it seems that there are a lot of people out there having trouble with flash 9 and ie7. i have tried to email adobe about the issue but i have not heard back from them. does anyone have any suggestions. thanks for your help in advance!

This has been going on for quite sometime and I've just never found any solution. On sites with Flash it asks me to download the player. I have the player already, but I download it anyway. The box on the Flash site shows that yes, I do have Flash installed now. Then I go back to the site that uses Flash and I'm back to the start - please download Flash Player. I can't understand why if it's on my computer, why the site keeps asking me to download it again, yet it shows I do have it on my computer. I started to use Macromedia Flash 8 Training from the Source, James English, and needed to play Flash in one of the tutorials. It sent me to the download site. I downloaded, shows the Flash movement in the sample box that if you have Flash you will see it in the box. I go back to the Flash site and once again - wants me to download Flash. So it's just a continuous circle with no end. Would anyone have ANY idea at all why something like this would happen? Any suggestions would be apprecia

While trying to solve some Flash/IE installation problems, I have discovered that I can't delete the following file: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\Macromed\Flash\Flash9.ocx I've tried safe mode, "move on boot", BartPE, and nothing will get rid of this file. The read only attribute is set and cannot be changed....does anybody have any ideas as to what might be causing this? Thanks, Rob

i have going crazy with no sound w/ Flash Player 8 or 9 in Internet Explorer (IE) with playing embedded video. this problem occurs with many websites with embedded youtube or other flash videos. the sound bar was set to zero, but even if i drag it to a higher level, there is no sound. yet, when the same video is played from youtube directly, it works perfectly. when i uninstall Flash 8 or 9 and reinstall an older version such as Flash 7, the sound plays perfectly without problem. i am running win xp professional sp2. latest updates/patches installed. ie 6. i have tried the following: 1. the k-lite codec trick - does not work. 2. scanned for virus/spyware - none found. 3. uninstall all Flash w/ adobe uninstaller and reinstall the latest build - does not work. 4. clean out all registry entries related to flash and reinstall - does not work 5. deleted quicktime - does not work can someone please help me? i searched everywhere and this is driving me mad. i saw simliar posts but none

Hi, i've been having the download problem for a while now and nothing seems to work. This is what I did: first of all I have Vista and RoadRunner IE7 on my comp and its my home page, as soon as i click on IE a popup shows up saying that it needs permission to continue the "Internet Explorer Add-On Installer", then i click continue and nothing happens for a few seconds and the sign appears again, over and over. After reading some of the forums I tried everything I saw: 1) tried uninstalling (uninstall worked) and installing the new one...when on the adobe download page for Flash Player...nothing happens, i dont get a pop up or anything...it just shows the page 2) i tried cleaning the registry files using the "Subinacl" and "reset-minimal"...the same things happens when i try to log on IE and download the new Flash Player 3) RoadRunner can only operate with the new version of Flash Player, so i just tried typing in "www.rr.com" in the address bar and a page different than the home page

Hello Flash Player community,We are tracking the issues being reported on Flash Player 10.3.181.14 and Internet Explorer 9 and actively investigating them.  Users are reporting that Flash content is being displayed in the upper left corner of the screen.  We want to give those who are encountering these issues an update.First, we apologize to everyone affected.  We know you count on Flash Player as an integral component of the web and we strive for high quality and performance in each release.  We are actively looking into the root cause of this issue.  Thanks to many of you submitting information via email and our online bug database, we now have some solid leads we are pursuing.Flash Player 10 and later can use your system’s graphics hardware to accelerate video decoding, and can also accelerate video presentation on some sites. Starting with Flash Player 10.2, Flash Player will also take advantage of hardware accelerated graphics in Internet Explorer 9, util

i have tried every single solution suggested by youtube, adobe, and whoever else has suggestions, and nothing works. in fact the problem continues to worsen. now i can't watch any youtube whatsoever. i get the javascript error everytime. i need to watch many of these videos for my work, and i CAN'T! can anyone help solve this issue before i'm homeless or commit suicide?

First, we apologize for any problems that you may be encountering with the latest version of Flash Player 11.3.  We've been working around the clock to resolve these issues and I'd like to update everyone with our current status.Flash Player 11.3.300.268 (Mac and Windows, all browsers) was released on July 26th, 2012 to address the following issues:Various general stability and rendering issuesFlash Player 11.3.300.270 (Windows only, for all browsers except Chrome) was released on August 2nd, 2012 to address the crash that occurred in FlashPlayerUpdateService.exe on some systems.  No other changes were made.We'd like to get your feedback.  Please let us know how this release works for you by responding to this thread or creating a new thread or bug report if a new problem is occurring.Thank you.  I will update this post as additional information becomes available.Updated 6/19/12 - Flash Runtime blog post: Update on Flash Player 11.3 and Mozilla Firefox IssuesUpdated

Hi all,Problem is very weird. I have Mozilla Firefox, IE, latest flash (11.9), Win 8.1 All latest updates. Online video playback with flash player stutters in a very weird way - even if video is fully downloaded it stutters for a second irregulary and then continues normally as if nothing happen. This stutter is similar like someone just opened something on a slow hdd and thus makes the flash playback stutter for just a second (even though i have an ssd that is very fast; rest of computers is i7, r9 280x, so a fast and modern computer). This happens in irregular intervals on both browsers. Video is watchable but this is very annoying. I tried reinstalling just about everything except the OS itself. I disabled hardware acceleration and set cash to unlimited in flash settings, still nothing. This happens with youtube as well as all other flash video in both browsers. Ofcourse other video playback is fine (.avi, .mp4 etc). It can happen 5 times in 5 minutes, and than nothing for half an h

I have firefox and internet explorer browsers on numerous boxes. Have development site http://www.ultra-ion.us that uses wimpy to access list of wvm videos. Worked perfectly with adobe flash player version 9. Does not work at all with upgrade to adobe flash player version 10. You can see a full screen version of result here http://www.ultra-ion.us/media/video/DriWashPlayer.htm Looks like a serious bug in version 10 to me. Anyone working on a patch or fix???

I use Win XP Home with SP2 and IE7, on a 2 week old PC (so both were OEM loaded). I have installed Flash Player in order to get a decent experience from websites. On one site - and one site only - anything from 15 to 120 seconds after the home page has loaded, I get a message that "IE has encountered a problem and needs to close". By sending an error report to M/Soft and then getting the message box with a 'More Information' option, every time this says that it is Flash Player that has caused the crash. I am directed to the Macromedia/Adobe site to update Falsh - but I already have the latest verison installed. My version in the Windows/System32/Macromedia/Flash directory is Flash9e.ocx. Based on tips seen elsewhere, I have even added a copy of this in the same directory and renamed it as Flash.ocx. Further more, I have uninstalled (using the Adobe/Macromedia special uninstaller) and then re-installed (every time downloading a new copy of Flash from Adobe and/or Macromedia) at leas

In the past few days Flash Player has crashed all the major browsers, Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3, Opera 10, Safari, and Chrome.  Windows XP 64-bit.  If you want to witness the problem, go to http://www.canaan.jp/ and wait a few moments.  I have sent in as many crash reports as the browsers were able to generate.  I have also read so many entries in other forums that this problem is epidemic.  You are probably already nearly panicking over it, and well you should.  Your monopoly on streaming data is threatening to come crashing down around your ears.  You'd better fix it quick or become accustomed to the sound of peasants banging their pitchforks against the gates and howling for your heads.

Update 4/16I'm pleased to announce that Flash Player 13.0.0.201 for Mac is now available from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer.  This release resolves the crash described in this thread.  As noted below, you can either download this immediately from adobe.com or wait for the update to be applied automatically, within 24 hours, via our recommended auto update mechanism.  If you encounter any problems updating, please visit http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player.html for basic troubleshooting steps.We are aware that Macs created between 2006 and 2008 are currently running into problems using the latest release of Flash Player (version 13).  We apologize for the inconvenience that this is causing.  We are actively investigating the cause and hope to have a full solution to you shortly.  In the meantime, please follow this two step procedure which will revert you back to version 12.Download and run our uninstaller:http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/

I installed Flash 10 on my dad's computer last Saturday. He emailed me today to tell me that Internet Explorer 7 had been a few times over the past few days which he things started around Tuesday. Since the only change to IE7 made recently was upgrading from Flash 9 to Flash 10, Flash 10 is my suspect. Are there any reports of Flash 10 causing IE7 to hang in Vista?

Hi, We have recently upgraded a couple of machines to the latest flash player 9.0.115, from 9.0.47. In 9.0.47 when running in an HTA (Microsoft HTML application), flash trusted the local machine and CD. Previously we used the FlashPlayerTrust trust folder, but we had stopped using this when we discovered it worked without. However since the upgrade, both methods (HTA and FlashPlayerTrust) appear to have stopped working. We have tried specifying the exact file name in the FlashPlayerTrust file of each swf, and a global folder. We have also tried putting the .cfg in both the user profile and the windows\system32. Are there any changes to the Security logic between versions? Is this a known issue with 9.0.115? If not has anyone got a sample program that does "fscommand" that runs from a CD/local computer? Yours hopefully, Alex

We are unable to download the adobe flash player Offline MSI through the below links.[moderator: deleted links to licensed MSI installers; per license agreement, links cannot be shared, including on these forums]we were using this folder till last month end for downloading the patches. Is there any changes on the link please let us know the new Link to download.<moderator: edited title to include EXE files><moderator: edited title again as this impacts all files on the distribution page, not just Windows>

If I happen to have an instance of a debugger (for example Dev Studio 2005) run, I get a chance to debug the exception. EVERY time this has happened, the stack was in the Flash.OCX and the problem was an invalid memory access. You guys are accessing freed memory.

After 2 weeks of extreme frustration trying absolutely everything and tearing out what little hair I had left I finally managed to get flash 9 working. What you need to do is run the downloadable adobe flash uninstaller and then go to the website below and download the IE "standalone" flash 9 installer. All will be ok after that, and you can finally view videos in youtube. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD link is to http://www.softwarepatch.com/internet/flash.html

I got a prompt on a website saying that I needed to download FlashPlayer 9 and plug-in. I downloaded the installer and tried to install the application. When I get the test page I also get the same prompt telling me I need the plug-in and taking me back to the page where you download the installer. In other words, I'm going in circles. Something is preventing the application from installing. And most web pages have cube questionmark icons where I should be viewing flash content. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

Greetings, I've yet upgraded to 9.0.115.0 and installed successfully. However I noticed videos in fullscreen gives screen such as following scrreenshot: Screenshot I have uninstalled using uninstall utility, and reinstalled it cleaner. Problem did not change. I thought it might be problem of my FLV player, so I decided to try on various websites such as infamous Youtube. Fullscreen error was exactly same. Currently my computer specs are following: Intel Core2Quad 6600 @2.4 GHz 2,048 MB of Ram Palit ATI Radeon HD2600 XT , 512 MB video card... Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 Tried and got same result on : IE7, Firefox and Opera It worked perfectly on my virtual PC using Windows XP, however did same on my other friend's Windows Vista. Every animation and video plays perfectly fine as in normal, but fullscreen video is out of question (note: fullscreen audio still playing as well). Problem here is only on Fullscreen and only on Windows Vista and all browser

Many of us I.T. types for one reason or another have choosenNOT to use McAfee in place of other (IMO better) products.  The McAfee scan product that you have bundled inwith your flash player updates install and leave files that interfere with the automatic updates forKaspersky.  After the Flash Product installes, I am then stuck visiting that machine in person running a special McAfee uninstall utility to remove McAfee even though it does NOT show up in the add/remove programs area of the control panel.  The flash updates do allow you to choose if you want McAfee installed, but unfortionatly, the default is to have that option checked.  For most unsuspecting corporate users, they don't see, care, or understand the impact of leaving that check box checked.  Please stop including that as part of the install.  For us corporate types trying to keep hundreds of computers working smoothly, we certainly don't need the automated headaches that McAfee brings with.R

We have a digital signage app that uses the flash player OCX as a COM component within a .NET application running on XP and Win 7.   Since upgrading some clients to flash version 10.1.53.64 we are experiencing a variety of issues to include:1) fscommand calls that are being raised from the SWFs being played eventually stop being raised to (or at least received by) the application.  The behavior is not consistant, and it usually takes a while for this to occur.  Only an app restart seems to restore functionality.2) Also occasionally insted of the SWF that is supposed to be playing, a white screen is displayed in the flash window.   The screen has a small gray circle with a white exclamation mark in the center.  When this occurs it never recovers - even when a new SWF is loaded.  No errors are raised and the app "thinks" that everything is still going smoothly.  Again a app restart is required to fix it.We can usually recover from missing fsco

It's bad enough we have to endure your endless updates but when you try and trick users into installing McAfee AV its a sign that you've lost the plot.I've been in IT for 25 years and seen many companies come and go. Goodbye Abode, you deserve to die.