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brharrii
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December 9, 2014
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Adobe Flash Player / Shockwave Flash Crashing

  • December 9, 2014
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Adobe Flash and Shockwave Flash are crashing several times a day on my computer.  Windows 8.1 and firefox v 34.0.

I can recreate the issue sometimes by right clicking on flash media, which will lock up my browser for several seconds and then cause a crash.

Can anyone give me some suggestions for where to start troubleshooting this issue?

Thank you,

Bruce

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    jeromiec83223024
    jeromiec83223024
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    December 12, 2014

    I've seen a lot of stability reports around Windows 8, Firefox and Flash Player. 

    Both Google Chrome and Internet Explorer have invested heavily in bringing a highly tuned experience and modern plug-in interfaces to Windows 8.  Improving plug-in support is not a priority for Firefox, and although we continue to address stability issue where they make sense, most of what I'm seeing are generic crashes and hangs that boil down into the fundamental inefficiency in retrofitting a modern sandboxing approach necessary to protect users in today's security landscape with a plugin architecture from the 1990s.

    While I'm more than happy to take a look at your crash reports, I'm pretty sure that this is the conclusion we'll arrive at based on the last several folks I've talked to about this.

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