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David Sirola
David Sirola
Participant
May 11, 2016
Question

Mac Flash Freeze / Lockup

  • May 11, 2016
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I've been running into a problem where sites seem to lock up my mac while using flash and safari. I've tried to uninstall flash. I noticed that when it happens, the number of flash player threads multiplies - see attached image. I've had as many as 1600 flash threads on the processor during a lockup. This can't be normal?

I'm running 10.10.5 on a late 2014 27" imac retina.

Any help would be appreciated.

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    jeromiec83223024
    jeromiec83223024
    Inspiring
    May 17, 2016

    To give you any useful advice, I'm going to need to know more about your computer and browser:

    https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1195540

    David Sirola
    David SirolaAuthor
    Participant
    May 17, 2016

    Mac OS 10.10.5

    Safari 9.1

    Flash 21.0.0.242

    Above explains the issue

    Thanks

    jeromiec83223024
    jeromiec83223024
    Inspiring
    May 17, 2016

    Thanks.  I've heard anecdotal reports about similar symptoms in older Flash Players, but I'm pretty sure they were resolved.

    It's odd that running the uninstaller would cause this.  That's not making a lot of sense to me.  I'm thinking it's more likely that the content running in the background was just generating a lot of threads, and you ran the installer (which waits for you to close Flash). 

    Is there a URL and/or set of steps where you consistently see tons of threads generated?  If we can reproduce it under a debugger, it should be fairly straightforward to figure it out.

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