[thelist] Macromedia Flash Player crashing browsers - any ideas?

[Chris Hayes]

Well.  There are millions of people with Win 2000 / XP happily playing flash
movies.

When you say upgraded, do you mean a fresh OS install or an upgrade?  If you
just upgraded any problem with your old OS could be transferred to the new.
You can safely say that a freshly installed XP should have no problems
displaying flash.

When you reinstalled Flash, was it from the MM site?

It makes sense that your problem is specific to your system.  The only
probelms I've had with Flash are with Firefox and or Linux, where certain
movies, say with a lot of transparent layers and animation, will eat into
CPU resources.  None of these movies are a problem on IE.

What's your PCs spec?





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sylvia Braunstein" <sylvia.braunstein at gmail.com>
To: <lists at onlinetools.org>; <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 11:26 AM
Subject: [thelist] Macromedia Flash Player crashing browsers - any ideas?


> This is what has been going on:
>
> On my brand new computer (with XP), Macromedia Flash Player is
> freezing and crashing all the browsers. We upgraded to XP from Win
> 2000, precisely because of THAT Flash Player problem.
>
> Reinstalled audio and video drivers, flash.ocx, checked security/popup
> settings, you name it.
>
> I wrote to Macromedia and this is what they wrote back:
>
> "Support is discussing this with Player Engineering now, but we don't
> have any firm handle on what it might be just yet. And I don't have an
> ETA on when we might know what's going on.
>
> So for the immediate future your choices for Flash Player use are this:
> (NOTE: This is a temporary situation while we debug this issue! )
>
> 1. Use IE without Flash.
> 2. Use a different browser. All the non-IE browsers (FireFox, Netscape,
> etc..) use the Flash Player plugin."
>
> Unfortunately, the Flash Player freezes and crashes the other browsers
> too (what is strange is that in Firefox some files run longer before
> they feeze while others are not displayed at all. In IE the same thing
> happens but not with the same files as Firefos and generally they
> freeze faster.)
>
> This has been going on for months now. On my computer at work, I don't
> have that problem.
>
> There is obviously a problem between the Flash Player and the Hardware.
>
> I am wondering if someone has a clue. I have been reading about
> software developpers, hardware engineers, all trying to find the
> answer.
>
> Meanwhile, no Flash Player.
>
> Is there an alternative to Macromedia Flash Player?
>
> Has anyone on these forums experienced this problem? If yes, did they
> find a solution?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sylvia
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