White/Black Screen Problems With Flash Player

Given that this thread was from 2014, I'm going to lock it. 

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I havent updated for years and it worked fine, but i recently did and have black screen issues when trying to play games on Kongregate. one time it was flashing blackscreen and game screen so fast it would cause a seizure if you have that problem. I use Firefox as main browser.

Same problem. White screen. No video. Using Firefox 32.

I am having the same problems and have tried all the posted solutions with no positive result, so far. 

Similar to above… on all of the web pages on which I am unable to see the flash videos, if I click in the flash window to start the video, all I get is audio playback with a black or white screen. 

However…  If I move the mouse around inside the flash window, I can see that the mouse pointer still reacts wherever the video control buttons are located at the bottom (although I can’t see the buttons, themselves).  And if I click the “full screen” button …. usually in the lower right… my view goes to full screen and the video appears! 

I don’t know about everyone else, but my problem appears to be limited to:

• Specific websites (facebook, most news websites)… I have no problem with Youtube or the Adobe  Test Page. 
• Viewing video in the embedded flash window on the web page...  Opening the video to full screen allows me to see it.

I’ve tried this on several of my problem websites with consistent “success” at viewing videos.  It's an annoying solution, but at least I can see the videos.

Most of the problems come from the abomination Microsoft calls a browser---Internet Exploder 11.

IE has always been the problem child of browsers, but 11 has got to be the biggest pile of grabage to come out of Redmond, WA since Vista. They rewrote the "User-Agent Strings", which websites use to identify the browswer and provide the proper content for it, like ActiveX specific things. Some sites now ID it as Gecko (Firefox) while others ID it as Webkit (Chrome or Safari). Problem is, that when the content is adjusted for those User-Agent Strings, it REQUIRES the appropriate browser engine, which IE doesn't have. EVERYTHING falls apart after that.

So far, Microsoft has made NO indication that they have any plan to fix it soon.

Microsoft's recommendation is to use Compatibility View for affected pages, and "pretend" you're using an different browser. Trouble with that is it has seen limited success at best, and you have to individually enable it for EVERY page that has problems.

I'm not big on "pretending" so I recommend actually using another browser.

Firefox (from Mozilla)

Opera (from Opera)

Safari (from Apple)

Chrome (from Google)

ANY of those will work where IE11 won't, with the Flash Player Plug-in (For all other browsers), and Chrome doesn't even need that because it has its own Flash Player plugin built in.