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Aspar7597383
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December 20, 2006
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Flash9b.ocx crash once again

  • December 20, 2006
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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.


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    Anonymous
    March 1, 2008
    FLASH9E.OCX has been frustrating me a lot lately. hope someone clears this up for us.
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    Ms_Curet
    Participant
    February 20, 2008
    I TOO AM EXPERIENCING SAME PROBLEM ADOBE NEEDS TO GET IT TOGETHER THIS PROBLEM HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR MONTHS..... HOW MUCH MORE INFO FROM USERS DO U NEED...PLEASE FIND A FIX MY IE6 AND IE7 CRASHES WHEN I GO TO PLAY GAMES AT POGO.COM ACCORDING TO ERROR REPORT ITS DUE TO FLASH9E.OCX
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    Ms_Curet
    Participant
    February 20, 2008
    Hi All I am experiencing same problem IE6 and IE7 crashes everytime I go to pogo.com...The error says its due to flash9e.ocx. I had this same problem for months now come on ADOBE WASSUP?
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    Emile.Swain
    Participant
    January 28, 2008
    I had this same issue. IE7 and firefox would both crash when i ran my project. I didn't have any issues running within the ide only when in the browser.

    I resolved the issue eventually. I removed everything i'd created and attached and finally got to a point where a single item was causing the issue. ooooh the anticipation.

    Of course this may not be the cause of everyones issue but; using a textfield with a stylesheet applied as a mask for an item attached from the library was the cause of my problem.

    I didn't have time to find the specific issue or create an example, but figured knowing this is better than nothing.

    i.e.
    addChild(new myTextMask());

    ...

    class myTextMask
    {
    ...
    function myTextMask()
    {
    var t:TextField = new Textfield();
    t.stylesheet = mystyleSheet;
    // set text etc.
    ...
    var toMask:Sprite = new ItemFromLibraryWithGraphicImage());

    addChild(t);
    addChild(toMask);
    /// mask iamge with textfield.
    toMask.mask = t;


    }
    }
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    insurancecalifornia
    Participant
    January 28, 2008
    hmm
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    Anonymous
    January 28, 2008
    My browser has crashed at least 3 times a day all week.
    has the fix beem released

    MD
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    Anonymous
    January 28, 2008
    Adobe Macromedia has an update to Flash Player 9.015 as of today 1/27/08.
    Go to the website. It lists mulitiple fixes. Whether or not it will address our crash issues we'll have to wait and see. My issue was with IE7 and Vista Ultimate.

    Let's all keep each other apprised.

    Thanks.
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    Anonymous
    January 24, 2008
    I am running WIn 2003 Server - (i have not choice) and I am having this issue - any suggestions. THanks

    Bob - movie sex scenes
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    Horshu
    Participant
    January 26, 2008
    I'm currently running 9e. The crashes are much, much less frequent (I've had 2 in 3 weeks). However, I'm seeing sky-high CPU usage, especially viewing Flash video and thehuffingtonpost.com. When I say high CPU usage, I mean the kind that leads to me killing IE from the task manager (which, due to the speed hit, can take a couple of minutes...it's that bad).
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    GregRobert
    Participating Frequently
    January 22, 2008
    Why thank you kind sir :)
    Would've replied sooner but have had trouble entering this forum for four days (don't know why; other sites fine).
    - greg
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    Anonymous
    January 10, 2008
    We are well aware of this situation. Unfortunately it is very much a non-trivial fix. Until we can get it dealt with please use the info in my previous posts.
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    GregRobert
    Participating Frequently
    January 17, 2008
    Bentley,

    Could you post fresh instructions for obtaining V8? My system crashed and I must degrade the version again (I continue to watch for a "we fixed it 100% all clear" from Adobe, but till then). Anyway, I found at least two URLs you provided but both of them take me to an error page. I found it myself the first time, but I forget what magic incantation I used.

    tkx, Greg
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    Anonymous
    January 17, 2008
    quote:
    Originally posted by: GregRobert
    Could you post fresh instructions for obtaining V8? My system crashed and I must degrade the version again (I continue to watch for a "we fixed it 100% all clear" from Adobe, but till then). Anyway, I found at least two URLs you provided but both of them take me to an error page. I found it myself the first time, but I forget what magic incantation I used.


    I think the magic incantation was 'please'...

    Archived Flash Players available for testing purposes
    http://www.adobe.com/go/tn_14266
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    boostm
    Participant
    November 28, 2007
    its not Firefox.. Firefox works fine with Flash Player. Its been about a month now without a single Flash Player related problem. I have another, smaller problem with Firefox regarding the scrollbar. If I pause the mouse on it for a while, and then start to move the mouse again, it wants to drag the scrollbar focus with it... Its as if Ive still got the mouse button pressed when I really dont.. I call it a 'sticky focus' problem. Im using the standard windows XP mouse driver and a Logitech mouse wtih scroll wheel in the middle... PRoblem only involves the left, primary mouse button. But, at least its not a Flash Player issue! :)
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    Anonymous
    December 5, 2007
    Ok, so I've read this entire thread and there seems to be no solution to this problem. I've tried the registry fix. I've tried adding in hacked gc calls (courtesy of gskinner). No luck. We have a Flex app that works fine in Firefox but crashes IE. I have the latest version of IE 7 and have installed the new Flash Player 9.0.115 that was just released.

    THIS IS STILL NOT WORKING! We have already passed our code freeze date and are supposed to be releasing momentarily and we can't get our application to run within IE.

    Is there any word on whether or not this problem was supposed to have been fixed in 9.0.115?

    Thanks,
    Mark

    PS. I have case # 173020758
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    Ronrod
    Participating Frequently
    December 9, 2007
    I updated to 9.0115 and guess what, I also just had my first IE7 crash again. So the problem still hasn't been solved yet. I recently lost a lot of information I was looking for, when again my browser crashed, making al my open tabs and looked up information dissappear, I'm getting really annoyed by this.
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