Flash player keeps crashing/freezing

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January 27, 2018
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Hello,

for like two weeks, whenever i use this website (https://xat.com), the flash player keeps crashing randomly. As a result of that i'm not able to start the chat box anymore, it's just frozen (see screenshot: https://prnt.sc/i69ve5).

The browser i use is Opera: 50.0.2762.67 (it doesn't happen with others browsers)

The flash version i use is: 28.0.0.137

To solve this i do either reinstall flash player and restart browser or i can remove the files in appdata/adobe/flash player.

However both of this options are dumping all flash files and it still keeps crashing, so the fix doesn't last for too long.

What else could i do? This is really very annoying.

Thanks.

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briani91584026

New Participant

apparently Chrome has its own flash player. So no need to try to get Adobe flash to work when using Google chrome. I was recently tring to watch movie trailers on VUDU while from Google Chrome browser, and of course the flash player error message kept coming up to ad the extension. But I was able to solve the problem and was able to watch the movie trailers. I had to open the chrome browser go to the settings. The 3 little periods stack vertically top right corner. Get the drop down window click on settings. Then in the search bar of the settings> type Flash go to content settings>click on flash. There you can ad the web site to allow google chrome to use the flash player. Hopefully this resolves other situations. thanks [moderator: deleted personal information as per forums policy]

jeromiec83223024

Community Manager

Yeah, Google Chrome bundles it's own Flash Player, which is encapsulated from the rest of the system.

For other Chromium browsers, you'll need to install the PPAPI plug-in, and in the instance that the system-wide PPAPI plug-in is newer than what's bundled in Chrome (this is fairly rare, unless you're in an enterprise or something), then Chrome will prefer the newer version.

Here are the official Google instructions for enabling Flash Player in Chrome and Opera (for a Chromium-specific example):

Use or fix Flash audio & video - Computer - Google Chrome Help

Enable Flash Player for Opera