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Anonymous
December 21, 2010
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Flash Player Acting Nuts on Firefox

  • December 21, 2010
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I use a Windows XP Intel Celeron processor 540 laptop and it is about 4-5 years old. I use the latest Firefox (had it updated a few days ago). I have never had any problems with it before I downloaded Adobe flash player 10 in October.

After that download the Flash player would crash and that would mess up my entire system by making so that every single word on the web pages and every single symbol on my computer disappear and when I shut it down or restart it it would shut down like an old Windows system would (as in instead of the blue screen that I usually see when it starts up/shuts down I would see that small little Windows bar say it was shutting down).

Now I followed the advice given to me in my last post (about the crashing) and disabled the hardware acceleration and haven't had any crashing problems, but now I have another problem. Every time I use flash player too long on a page whenever I want to go to a new page from my bookmarks it keeps doing this thing where it will want to save the page. I can get Firefox's homepage to come up but whenever I try to type some thing it uses that first letter to go to File, Edit, View, History, Bookmarks, Yahoo!, Tools, or Help on the Menu Bar. When I get rid of the tab I'm using the Flash Player on though everything goes back to normal. Now this wouldn't bug me so much if I didn't have classes that use Flash Player a lot.

Is there anything you guys can do to help me with this?

Thanks!

Tricia

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    Anonymous
    December 21, 2010

    Hi, I don't know what could be causing that. However, it appears it may have something to do with the latest version of FF rather than Flash Player.

    I have an XP/SP3 that is 9 years old:-) What I find is that sometimes when I'm on a particular site, and want to do go from bookmarks to another site, it lags. So I have just gotten into the habit of clicking on my home page icon and then the bookmark site. I don't have any lagging that way. I know that's not the ideal, but since my system is old, whatever works is what I do:-)

    You could try that or Uninstall the latest FF version and go back to the previous. I am always somewhat hesitant in updating new browser versions right away. I'd rather allow some time to pass and visit the appropriate forum to see if anyone else is having problems with them.

    Hope that helps. Perhaps someone else may have an opinion also.

    Thanks,

    eidnolb

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    Anonymous
    December 21, 2010

    Only problem with that is that Firefox updates automatically for me. I have no clue how to fix that but everytime a new version comes up next time I go on Firefox it updates to the next version. Plus it doesn't do that with any other site only sites that use Flash Player like Youtube.

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    Anonymous
    December 21, 2010

    Hi, well then I would go to the Firefox forum and find out what setting there is to disable any automatic update. Flash Player doesn't to that, nor does Windows. I don't use FF so can't tell you. I'm sure there is a Setting for that.

    eidnolb

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