Flash player crashing all the time on FireFox
scott26985
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Is anyone else having trouble with flash player on Firefox? For the last 2 weeks or so flash player keeps crashing on youtube, facebook etc. I have tried updating it many times but nothing changes. Also updated FireFox. Its happing on both my PCs. Any advice?
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https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/refresh-firefox-reset-add-ons-and-settings
Then got to
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
and re-install Flash. Make sure you untick the "Optional Offer" unless you really want whatever they are flogging off this week
You will then need to install any other add ons etc that you had.
And if all else fails zap Firefox into oblivion, download and re-install from scratch. But try a reset first as that can cure a load of ills and only get the big stick out if it still refuses to play nicely
I use the Ultimate version & find it performs better than FF
If that didn't work then your only option might be zap it and re-install. If you have loads of bookmarks etc then try Mozbackup
http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/
to back-up all of that stuff then restore it all after re-installing. Mozbackup isn't the most elegant of software but it does exactly what it says on the tin and I use it regularly to back-up Firefox and Thunderbird.
This doesnt happen on any other website!
Any ideas?
Lee.
I assume it was OK on Windows 8.1 or Windows 7 that you upgraded from? Though it's likely that the Firefox version would have been earlier.
I think many have had problems with Digital Spy at one time or another. Do you run an ad blocker? If not, that seems to help. (Though, of course, one should expect it to work properly with ads enabled too.)
Block the ads.
Adguard: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/adguard-adblocker/
OR
Adblock Plus: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/
This is useful too--a tool where Flash only runs on a page when you specifically authorise it to do so: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/flashblock/
If someone lives and dies by Firefox, the answer is to totally uninstall Flash from their PC (via hunting it down in Add/Remove programs), but keep a copy of Chrome--which has an internally maintained version of Flash inside itself--as a BACKUP browser. Just for use with sites that aren't smart enough to have HTML5 backup to their flash content (the biggie, YouTube no longer needs Flash, for example).
That way they don't have to suffer through propping Google up if they hate them, but it's there when they need it--just make sure like with every piece of software these days that whatever update checks it does are only when you start the browser and not at boot time.
While they're at it, most would benefit from uninstalling Java (note: NOT Javascript--that's different) and Adobe Acrobat (and download something better and more stable like FoxIt reader).