Flash player stops working after restart

[Timppa917]

Every time I restart my computer flash player just stops working. It juts looks like I would have no flash player installed at all and I will have to re-install. Very annoying.

Once I reinstall, everything works just fine until I restart my computer.

I have 64 bit Windows 7 if that helps at all.

[darkin99]

Chris:

I see a long list of plugins including:

Shockwave Flash

File: NPSWF32_11_4_402_265.dll

Version: 11.4.402.265

Shockwave Flash 11.4 r402

MIME Type Description Suffixes

application/x-shockwave-flash Adobe Flash movie swf

application/futuresplash FutureSplash movie spl

And:

Shockwave for Director

File: np32dsw.dll

Version: 11.5.7.609

Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in, version 11.5

MIME Type Description Suffixes

application/x-director Shockwave Movie dir,dxr,dcr

[chris.campbell]

Ok, well it appears that Flash Player is being loaded after reboot, so that's good.  Do you have any browser add-ons being loaded?  Could you try starting Firefox in safe mode (Help menu->Restart with Add-ons disabled) after reboot?  I suspect something else is interfering here.

[darkin99]

Disabling Ad-Ons didn't help, so I tried disabling all Plug-ins in Firefox manually except Shockwave Flash and reinstalled Flash.  I then verified that Flash was working with Youtube and rebooted the computer.  After reboot, Flash did not work with Youtube.  Shockwave Flash was still listed as enabled in Firefox Plug-ins.

Thanks for your continued help.

[chris.campbell]

Could you try disabling protected mode to see if that makes a difference, see the bottom of this FAQ

How do I troubleshoot Flash Player's protected mode for Firefox?

Other than that, if Flash Player is loading in Firefox (which it appears it is, at least in about:plugins) then I'd recommend posting on the Mozilla forums to see if anyone else has encountered this issue.

[darkin99]

Chris:

There are a lot of comments on the Firefox site re: this problem but I haven’t had the time to work it there yet. Thanks for trying.

[JCM1953]

Yeah, really. I'm just an end user who wants to watch Youtube, not someone who can poke around with complicated routines.

ADOBE, FIX YOUR FLASH PLAYER.

[thierryv15151358]

Same problem here with Widows7 64 and Firefox.

I tried every solution listed here (and some otrhers as well). Nothing works.

As with other users, when I restart Windows, applications using Flashplayer  no longer work. And I need to reinstall Flashplayer (once again).

However I noticed some strange things in my problem:

1) The installer for Flashplayer has disappeared from my computer. (For most other softwares, once downloaded, the installer will remain on my computer).

2) Once Flashplayer correctly  reinstalledI, Youtube and other Flashplayer based applications work fin. But I do not see the Flashplayer plugin in Firefox plugins, but only the Shockwave Flash plugin.  There is also the Shockwave plugin for director (which I turn off).

3) Yet, iIf I turn off the Shockwave plugin, Flashplayers applications still work nicely.

I cannot believe that Adobe people cannot solve this problem which has going on for ages, and affect thousands of users.

Please help!

Thank you for any assistance.

Thierry (Paris)