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Anonymous
October 7, 2011
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Flash 11 crashing in all browsers

  • October 7, 2011
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I have been having nothing but problems with this. I usually use Chrome as my internet browser (on Mac OS X 10.6.8), and I kept getting "This plugin has crashed: Shockwave Flash". At first I thought it was just a problem with Chrome, but it is happening in every browser. I disabled it in Chrome, and reinstalled it, and re-enabled it, and it is still not workin. I think I've removed it / reinstalled it four times already and it keeps having the same problem. Any time I go on a website with flash media (youtube, a site with a music player of somesort, google ads that have flash, etc), it gives me a crash report.

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    Correct answer hkudo

    The original post issue, crash all browser on Mac, was fixed in latest Flash Player (11.1.102.55) through this bug report:

    https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3003022

    Thank you for all who helped to provide us information here and the bug report. We could have fix the bug just because you provided accurate information. We really appreciate your comments, reports, and help here.

    thanks,

    Hitomi

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    astefanosstefas
    Participating Frequently
    October 10, 2011

    Hi,

    I tried also the Flash player 11 and Flash Player Debugger 11 Standalone Players on my mac and they both also crash...

    Regards

    Alex

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    Anonymous
    October 10, 2011

    Same here, constant crashes in any browser with Mac OS X 10.7.1 , downgrade to 10.3 helps... I already posted this to bugbase. It's unbelievable how they released this unstable version and now we all have to downgrade, what are you smoking guys?

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    Anonymous
    October 10, 2011

    Had the same issue across all browsers since the latest Flash update but fixed it through downgrading. Not ideal but better than staring at an unworkable screen. Hope Adobe get their boots on and fix this one quickly!

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    Mark Elias
    Participating Frequently
    October 10, 2011

    Carolin -- can you detail the steps you took to make it work again? I'm having zero success getting anything working again. Thanks!

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    Qingyan_zhu
    Participating Frequently
    October 11, 2011

    Thanks all for your info, and the flash player team is continuing to investigate the issue.  Could you provide your OSX language? Since we suspect the issue only reproducible on some specific languages, thanks.

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    Anonymous
    October 10, 2011

    Flash Player 11 crashing on all latest browsers on mac osx 10.6 on all sites, Adobe can you update us on this issue please, please, please!?

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      Mark Elias
      Participating Frequently
      October 10, 2011

      I have followed these posts and am also not having any success...

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      Anonymous
      October 9, 2011

      I too have this problem since day before yesterday.  Kaspersky told me to upgrade to FLASH 11 .0.1.152 because 10.3.183.7 has vulnerabilities.

      (In the recent past I had problems upgrading to 10.3.183.7 from 10.3.183.5.  I was finally able to successfully change from 5 to 7 by de-installing FLASH. Re-booting. Then doing an Alternate Manual download of FLASH.  After a couple of attempts it worked, not on the first try.) 

      So, when Kaspersky again told me to upgrade to FLASH 11 I assumed one must go through the same rigmarole to get it to work.

      I’m using Firefox (latest ver).  MS Vista on a Toshiba Satellite laptop.  32 bit. (What else?)

      What I then did:

      Downloaded.

      De-installed FLASH 10.3.183.7.

      Re-booted.

      Tried to load the dwnld.

      Didn’t work. Error msg. So I:

      Disabled all Firewalls. (Sex without protection!)

      Downloaded from Adobe and CNET.com

      Loaded the dwnld.  Did not work. Error msg.

      I have de-installed, reinstalled and re-booted ZIG times. With and w/o firewalls. In all cases when I dbl click the downloaded Adobe icon (saved to the desktop) it starts but then the icon disappears. Whenever I repeat I get the msg “Only a single instance of this application can run.”

      Now no FLASH at all.  What is the fix?

      HELP appreciated

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      astefanosstefas
      Participating Frequently
      October 9, 2011

      Hi,

      I have the very same problems as mwilsonasyck has. I also opened a post on 7.10.2011 on that issue: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/910942. As you can see in this post I have the very same hardware specs as mwilsonasyck has. Any progress on this already? That is a piece of standard hardware sold unbelievably often...

      Regards

      Alex

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      chirp88
      Known Participant
      October 8, 2011

      Crashing in all my browsers as well. Mac OS Lion, Safari 5.1, Firefox 7.01, and Chrome 14.x.

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      Andy C Hook
      Participating Frequently
      October 8, 2011

      Could it be... the ghost of Steve Jobs at work here? RIP Steve.

      pwillener
      pwillener
      Brainiac
      October 8, 2011

      Andybwah wrote:

      Could it be...

      What is your device, Flash Player version?

      What's the URL?

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      Mark Elias
      Participating Frequently
      October 8, 2011

      I'm having the same issue. If you type (in Chrome) about:plugins you'll see there is something to the effect of:

      Flash (2 files) - Version: 11.0.1.152
      Shockwave Flash 11.0 r1

      Name:Shockwave Flash

      Description:Shockwave Flash 11.0 r1

      Version:11.0.1.152

      Location:/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/Versions/14.0.835.202/Google Chrome Framework.framework/Internet Plug-Ins/Flash Player Plugin for Chrome.plugin

      Disable

      MIME types:
      MIME typeDescriptionFile extensions
      application/x-shockwave-flashShockwave Flash
      .swf
      application/futuresplashFutureSplash Player
      .spl

      Name:Shockwave Flash

      Description:Shockwave Flash 11.0 r1

      Version:11.0.1.152

      Location:/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Flash Player.plugin

      Disable

      MIME types:
      MIME typeDescriptionFile extensions
      application/x-shockwave-flashShockwave Flash
      .swf
      application/futuresplashFutureSplash Player
      .spl

      Disable

      And:

      Shockwave - Version: 11.6.1.629
      Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in, version 11.6.1

      Name:Shockwave for Director

      Description:Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in, version 11.6.1

      Version:11.6.1r629

      Location:/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/DirectorShockwave.plugin

      Disable

      MIME types:
      MIME typeDescriptionFile extensions
      application/x-directorShockwave for Director
      .dcr.dir.dxr

      Disable

      Disabling one or two of those three causes different kinds of crashes but nothing seems to be solved.

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      Anonymous
      October 11, 2011

      So the BL is disable.

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