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Flash player causes browser crash MAC 10.6.4

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June 19, 2010
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If I visit any site using flash player it causes whatever browser I'm using to lock-up with spinning colour wheel, leading to me having to force quit the program.

I'm running...

Macbook Pro 2.4 intel core 2 duo 64-bit

Snow Leopard 10.6.4

Flash Player 10.1

all latest versions of Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome

and help would be hot!

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bgkarma

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So now what, we sit and wait for Adobe to fix this?

370H55V

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I don't get this. What I mean is I understand your frustration, but with a MacBook Pro (Late 2009 unibody) I am having none of these freezing issues or crashes. I have had trouble out the ying-yang with Flash Player and Firefox 3.6.8 but I was able to work around that by going back to 3.0.1.

Other than my old build of Firebird, I have no Flash Player problems with any browsers including: Opera, Camino, Netscape, iCab, Google Chrome, Flock, OmniWeb, Sunrise, Safari, Shiira, and SeaMonkey.

If it was a software conflict I'm pretty sure I'd have run into it with nearly 250 applications installed (61.54Gb of stuff) and everything from CS4 and CS5 to DVD Rippers and Office, several video players, and burning software.

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Anonymous

I have exactly the same problem. Mac Mini 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo running Mac OS X 10.6.4 Snow Leopard Firefox 3.6.8 Safari 5.0.1 Shockwave Flash 10.1.82.76 (10.1.r82) Both Firefox and Safari browser freezes as soon as Flash content is activated. Opera browser freezes too. I've not tried Chrome. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the Flash plug-in, repaired disk permissions but I still have the problem. Is it Apple or is it Adobe who are playing politics with this?

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Adobe-Stinks

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Regardless of the tension between Apple and Adobe, it is the end users who suffer.

I am running the very latest Flash version 10.1.53.64 with a fully patched snow leopard iMac with the very latest release of browsers.

Nothing odd on my machine AFAIK. And yet firefox and safari crash instantly as soon as I go to a favourite site that distributes flash video content.

Flash remains the buggiest piece of garbage polluting the Internet today (with the possible exceptions of Adobe Reader)

See the commonality? Check the security advisories and what company name do you see time and time again?

How do Adobe get away with consistently releasing such utter rubbish software?

BTW I run Linux, Windows AND OS X so no fanboy here.

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Adobe-Stinks

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Check out http://www.adobe.com/support/security/

Adobe have a security advisory on average every month or two months on every single product.

Compare that to other companies software updates (who genrally have far more products).

e.g. Check out http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/alerts/

Do you think this is acceptable?

Is this the sort of rubbish you want running on your machine?

Raise your voice.

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FranciZi

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Flash is bad on Linux, ok on Mac and good on Windows is what I would say. The attack that you guys are staging on Adobe with your links is a little suspicious.

I'm not suggesting it's perfect, but it delivers crazy content which would be impossible without it ( today as much as years ago ). Everything has voulnerabilities, and if you were a developer you would know that the goal is to hunt them all down and fix them asap, no to not have any at all, because it's pretty much impossible, many are probably never even discovered.

Anyway, give me an alternative and I'll use it. Please don't say HTML5 because it's not an alternative to Flash.

JavaScript is the one that does the actual work right now in the demos and that is performing badly and quite buggy in a lot of browsers ( interestingly it's bad on OSX and Safari as well ), while Flash mostly just works. Let's wait for something that actually can replace Flash and then start making a fuss, because right now you're just creating confusion without offering any solutions to the problem.

What i think is that they should ban Flash banners and then Flash might be seen in a different light. More as a tool for delivering awsome experiences through the web and less for badly done advertising that slows your browsing experience and every so often pisses you off for intruding into your browsing experience.

PS. I "solved" the problem by reinstalling OSX.

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stephentoback

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I'm having the same problem, Macbook Pro too...

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FranciZi

Participant

Hey.

I have the same issue, suddenly all my browsers crash if Flash Player is embeded in the site. The issue started before I updated to 10.6.4 and the updating did not fix it. I'm a Flash developer, so I tried a lot of things to fix the issue like:

- reinstalling Firefox

- installing Chrome

- reinstalling Flash 10.1 ( uninstall/install)

- uninstall Firefox/Flash, Repair Permissions, install Firefox/Flash 10.1, Repair Permissions, run Firefox, still crashes

- uninstall Firefox/Flash, Repair Permissions, install Firefox/Flash Player 9, Repair Permissions, run Firefox, still crashes

FIREFOX CRASH REPORT:

Add-ons: {01A8CA0A-4C96-465b-A49B-65C46FAD54F9}:6.0,{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}:3.6.6
BuildID: 20100625223402
CrashTime: 1278874778
EMCheckCompatibility: true
FramePoisonBase: 00000000f0dea000
FramePoisonSize: 4096
InstallTime: 1277714791
ProductName: Firefox
ReleaseChannel: release
SecondsSinceLastCrash: 1875
StartupTime: 1278874767
Theme: classic/1.0
Throttleable: 1
URL: http://activetuts.com/
Vendor: Mozilla
Version: 3.6.6

SOFTWARE VERSIONS:

Firefox version 3.6.6

OSX version now 10.6.4

Computer specifications:

Mac Pro

2x3GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon

10 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM

Nvidia Geforce 8800GT

I'm now down to reinstalling OSX and hoping it works, since tomorrow is a woring day and I don't want to waste it fixing this issue.

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