Adobe Flash plug in crash in Mozilla
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I encountered a problem with connection to a site. It said that my adobe flash plug in had crashed.
I understand that installing the latest version may fix this problem. However, on doing the plug in check (to the link below) I found that it shows that I am up to date although it doesn't say Adobe Flash but Shockwave Flash. (??)
Here is the link I found that details the procedure...
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/adobe-flash-plugin-has-crashed
Any thoughts? Should I update even though the plug in check says that I am up to date? Is this site/procedure given there sound or will I succumb to something unexpected/unwanted?
I understand that installing the latest version may fix this problem. However, on doing the plug in check (to the link below) I found that it shows that I am up to date although it doesn't say Adobe Flash but Shockwave Flash. (??)
Here is the link I found that details the procedure...
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/adobe-flash-plugin-has-crashed
Any thoughts? Should I update even though the plug in check says that I am up to date? Is this site/procedure given there sound or will I succumb to something unexpected/unwanted?
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For a vid detailing what to do
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFuTiFfOImk
Even though the Mozilla Plug-in Container is supposed to prevent bad plugins from causing the entire browser
to crash, Adobe Flash is so buggy and unstable, it still manages to bring the entire browser crashing down.
Shockwave Flash isn't Chrome's own version of the Flash plugin. The term "Shockwave Flash" harks backs to
when Flash was a Macromedia product, and was the sibling of Macromedia Shockwave. Since Adobe bought
out Macromedia, the Flash Player browser plugin has become more and more buggy, unstable and insecure.
The OP's problem has nothing to do with Chrome.
Adobe Crash Player needs to die a horrible death as soon as possible.
Opps.. yeah, I got those flash names mixed up. But I stll think its worth disabling one plug in if there are 2 versions of Flash installed
But agree on Flash... on Macs it is particularly bad... grabbing a lot of processor power and memory.... Its also seems to suffer from a lot of security issues.
Hmm what to do now?
Uninstall and reinistall. Go here to uninstall it...
http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/uninstall-flash-player-windows.html
I've noticed that, even on my Macbook Pro with 8GB RAM! It's so annoying. And Macs aren't supposed to crash!
YEah, Macs hate Flash. I can't even play Youtube vids on full screen on my 2008 MBP without it jerking and delaying. HTML 5 videos don't cause anywhere near that level of processor use.
I also had Flash crashing all the time up until a couple of months ago - even on my PC.... think they released a dodgy version so if you reinstall it to the newest version it might fix the issue
constantly starting new processes without killing the old and the like
that's what eats memory as much as flash's inbuilt flackyness
ISn't ActionScript managed code with a garbage collector...or is the collector not picking it up that the object is finished and ready for disposal?
Mozilla is a joke the flash player was crashing every few minutes to the point of despair change browsers is the only answer.
other browsers? Adobe make Flash Player, so it'll still be unstable regardless of the browser you use it with.
I only had a flash player issue with Mozilla plus I had no choice but to have a flash player it was fine with Chrome, IE and Opera , the problem with Chrome was it slowed down the longer I used it and IE had slow typing.
So it must be mozilla's fault because it worked fine with every other browser.
Maybe it's Steve Jobs getting revenge on Adobe because he hated Flash He's watching us from the iCloud and crashing every Mac that has Adobe Flash installed. I'm surprised my 2010 MBP has trouble with it as it's still working really well and it has 8GB RAM in there. Yet when I boot into my Windows 7 partition and use anything with Flash on there it doesn't freeze at all
Ignore the arseholes who just cause chatter. Just do the update.
Why would I need to uninstall and reinstall rather than just update?
Have formatted the laptop which is much more stable and upgraded to 8.1 to but Flash still keeps crashing.
Why would I need to uninstall and reinstall (as mentioned in the above quote #18) rather than just update? Anyone???
The Flash plugin is notoriously buggy on every browser I have tried. It slows down Chrome and IE to a crawl after a short time, sometimes requiring them to be forced closed and it crashes Firefox. It really is Adobe that need to fix it, but each time they release an update to fix one problem they seem to introduce a host of other problems.
Unfortunately, even though the death of Flash has been predicted for years, it still hangs on and is still required by a huge number of websites.
You could try a complete removal of Flash, using the Adobe tool for that purpose, and then do a fresh install of the latest version which might make it a bit more stable, but it will still crash now and again. It also seems to crash more often just after an update, but settles down a bit after a while. The reason it can sometimes help is that if you have always just updated there may be the odd config file, DLL or whatever left over from previous versions that could be making it more unstable than usual. A complete removal and reinstall can sometimes help.
http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/uninstall-flash-player-windows.html
For a basic overview of what Shockwave and Flash are, and the differences:
http://www.shockwave.com/help/faq_flashplayer.jsp
The reason your plugin says Shockwave Flash is that Flash Player was probably included as part of the Shockwave plugin download when you first installed it.
(By the way I loved Kenny too! Very talented guy - sadly missed )