[locked] Flash player crashes all browsers

I just want to bump this as yet another person who is finding Adobe Flash Player to be the biggest pain in the butt ever. I can't believe Adobe isn't speaking on this, it's obviously a HUGE problem at this point! I had Vista 64 bit and I was able to use IE just before the update to 8 to go to sites using Flash, like youtube, songza, anything. It worked for a very short time with Firefox, but now Firefox just crashes. Now I am using Windows 7 64 bit and IE8 and Flash just doesn't work. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling and all the suggestions here. It just doesn't work. Like someone said, we are at Adobe's mercy unless someone else can come along and fix this problem before them. And having to delete registry keys all the time isn't a "solution" as much as it is just another pain in the butt. Adobe needs to do something about this, I'm pissed.

I have a very similar problem but I have found when I uninstall AVG, adobe flash player works fine so I really have no clue what is going on and how to fix it so that I can still use AVG.

Hi all.

I had the same problem in a new computer (sony vaio) (crash with IE and FF).

I followed the Windows Vista solution about the crash:

Address a problem with your computer

This problem was caused by a known issue with a file on your computer that supports the capability of sharing your webcam over a Bluetooth wireless connection. The problem occurs when Adobe Flash attempts to access the webcam.

Sony Corporation is aware of the problem and is working as quickly as possible to make a solution available.

Until a permanent solution is available, you can prevent this problem from occurring again by renaming the file that caused the problem.

Note
The following procedure will disable the capability of sharing your webcam over a Bluetooth wireless connection, but it should not disturb any other webcam or Bluetooth capabilities.

Here's how to rename the file:

1.      Click the Start button , and then, in the Search box, type BtwVdpCapFilter.dll.

2.      In the list of results, right-click BtwVdpCapFilter.dll, and then click Open file location.

3.      In the window that opens, right-click BtwVdpCapFilter.dll, click Rename, type a new name for the file (such as BtwVdpCapFilterTEMP), and then press ENTER.

4.      Restart your computer for the change to take effect.

For more information, go online to the Sony Vaio forum discussion that addresses this problem:

Click to go online to the Sony Corporation website

These instructions works for my computer.

I'll hope this works for another computers.

Regards.

I'm having a very similar problem, only I'm using Mac OS 10.5.8.  Safari 4.0.4, Opera 10.01, and Firefox 3.0.12, 3.0.15, and 3.5.5 all freeze within 5 seconds of seeing almost anything Flash.  The only exception I've found is Youtube videos, however the main Youtube page will still kill any browser.  The only work around I've found is to remove the Flash plugin from my plugins folder, which tells me the problem is at least related to Flash player since that's the only plugin I have to remove.  Another oddity about this is that it occured while I was in the middle of watching a video on crunchyroll.com using Opera.  The video stopped playing, and when I reloaded the page Opera froze.  I immediatly tried it in Safari, and it froze too.  I have tried reinstalling Flash player several times, tried every version of Flash 10, a few versions of Flash 9, and for the heck of it, 2 versions of Flash 7.  they all either froze the browser or were too old to play the videos.

Just to chime in, I am having this exact problem as well on a clients computer.  Works fine for a while, then Flash causes a crash.  Not jst the browser, blue screens the whole blasted computer.

Same problem, nothing has worked. Lets face it we are at the mercy of Adobe... Too bad they are turning their heads on this one, it should be top priority.

Possible workaround if you have > 4gb ram*.

I had the same problem on several computers running windows 7 - 64, on clean installs.  The registry change did not work for me.  Previously it was ok on Vista 64 and ironically, it seemed normal until Windows 7 when public.  I had been running RTM and flash with no issues, so not sure if it was a Windows 7 patch or new Flash version that broke it.

On a whim I removed my wallpaper, which uses video memory and one of the computers got 'better'.  Lowering the number of colors had no effect.

This got me thinking of shared video memory on cards and system, and on another whim, I removed some ram*, and poof, flash worked fine.  I added the ram back into the system and the crash, freeze, high cpu, all came back in varying degrees.

One machine had 6gb ram (thinkpad/ATI and Intel switchable graphics), and the other had 8gb ram (ASUS/ATI).  When I lower them to 4gb, flash works normally on both machines in IE and FF.

Since I assume the people complaining with 64 bit OS are running 64 bit to use more than 4gb RAM, hopefully this workaround works for you also.  My thought was that since flash is 32 bit app, something is 'pissy' about the larger memory addressing.  That is the thought which I have and is mine and mine alone.

*NOTE: changing RAM amount on any windows OS may require you to re-activate.

Flash does not crash my laptop.  It's running Win XP 32 with 1G RAM and a 1.5GHz Celeron M and Radeon 200M video.  Nothing crashes the laptop.  I had to rebuild it a couple of weeks ago due to a catastrophic OS failure, and I hadn't used it in a while.  I moved all my daily functions like email and web browsing to the workstation.  The laptop can't run most of the software that I use hence the dual core workstation with 8G RAM and a terabyte of storage.  Either the problem is Flash related but only with 64-bit OS, or the problem is not Flash related at all.  It could be a degenerating problem that started with Flash crashes and has now proceeded to generalized crashes all over the workstation.  I can't rip a CD in Winamp without it crashing.  I have to start Anti-Malware five or six times before it stays running long enough to even appear.  I haven't tried to record video.  I got Spybot running long enough to perform a full scan and it said the Windows directory (or file, it couldn't tell which it was) was corrupt and unreadable.  I've run a chkdsk /f and am seeing how that proceeds.  I thought it might be the RAM because the Microsoft Memory Diagnostic reported failures.  I also thought it might be the CPU because unit 1 (as opposed to unit 0) had an odd and regular pulse that I could not find related to any running program.  I dismissed the idea of overheating because my system has 8 or 9 fans and sounds like an air conditioner.  Just now Winamp played a CD without crashing.  Now I'm going to try to rip the CD. (pause) [While we're waiting, just let me relate that I rebuilt my workstation three times since Sunday, with two XP 64's and Win 7.  The builds were crashing but I did manage to get them going.  The apps and browsers were still crashing so I'm back to the original XP 64.  I also tried all combinations of RAM, two at a time, swapping all around, now at only one stick, with no apparent difference in behavior.  I am dismissing the possibility of a RAM problem.  That leaves either the drive, the board, the CPU, or the PSU.  Ugh.]  Winamp just crashed during the rip.  I am not dismissing the possiblity of a Flash problem, but all the evidence is pointing at something bigger and more serious.  If nothing else were wrong, maybe.  But Flash would very unlikely be causing software failures across the board.  Flash is one of the programs that is failing, and was the first to show symptoms.  I think I have a hardware problem.  That does not excuse Flash, mind you, because others are having the same problem under completely different circumstances.

Having this problem too.

I'm running Server 2008 R2 (64-bit) and this is happening on all browsers. It just started a few weeks ago. I just don't understand how it worked great before and then randomly it has this problem after reinstalling everything related to this issue.

Adobe needs to fix this problem or at the very least address it.

Solution That Worked For Me

i recently encountered this nuisance running windows 7 64-bit and using firefox 3.5.5 and ie8. i tried all of the suggestions on this thread with no luck. however, i was able to find a solution of my own and thought i'd share for others to try. i quit all browsers and unistalled flash using the program on the adobe site. i used a registry cleaner (tuneup 2010 in my case) to remove all associated registry keys and did a restart. using firefox, i browsed to a website the requires flash. i let the browser automically detect the missing flash program and followed the steps to install. once completed, i have been able to view flash content without crashing.

hope this works for others!