My shockwave flash player keeps crashing whenever I change pages. I'm running vista with google chrome...
I'm set for automatic updates and I reckon since the laptop updated something several days ago it's been playing up....
Would appreciate the advice...my thoughts are:
Do what you say:
Do a system restore:
Get rid of Chrome and return to Firefox:
Do what you say!
Peace dudes.
I have periodic problems with flash as well... I like to watch some shows on hulu and listen to my local NPR station on line, as well as listening to tunes on pandora occasionally, all of which use flash. Every once in a while, it seems to stop working for a bit, like, maybe a day or so..
I've always chalked it up to versions getting out of sync; it seems to usually follow or precede an update to either the flash plugin or the site's stuff.
Of course, I also use firefox and flashblock (fuck you, flash ads! ha-HA!) and I UPGRADED my machine from winblows vista to winblows XP pro pretty much as soon as I got this heap of refurbished crap. (Yes. That IS an upgrade!) That brought its own set of problems; I can no longer use the on-board 802.11 wireless adapter for some reason I was never really able to get to the bottom of, but I have a USB one that works just fine.
MY solution? Go penguin. These days, Ubuntu is as easy as pie to install (JAYsus, I remember the hours and hours of actual work that linux used to require. 'Course, that was half the fun! :)) and is really surprisingly easy to use for people who are accustomed to windoze or that remarkably expensive fruit one with the whole "it's pretty is more important than it works" philosophy. There will be little pissy problems, of course, but that's what computers are for, and unlike M$ and company, the linux community actually gives a shit about you and your experience as a user.
Dammit, man, now I have to go gut my other laptop (the one with linux on) and figure out why it stopped working! Fuck, I hope I don't have to solder anything; I'm terrible at soldering.
Almost complete non-sequitur: (semi-sequitur?) Now I'm wondering if BeOS is still out there, and further wondering if any of you know what the fuck I'm on about :P
Sorry to be so prolix; I'm hungry as hell, and, well, I don't really know what that could possibly have to do with my wordiness, but, fuck it. That's my excuse, and I'm stickin' to it!
Also,
http://xkcd.com/627/
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Oh dude!!! I read Flash..... then Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah adinfinitum blah blah etc....
Be gentle dear banjo.... I have no idea what you said... I can solder though! :)
Quote from: Caesar dude on March 14, 2011, 05:52:50 PM
...Get rid of Chrome and return to Firefox:...
Would be my start, or at least try firefox and see if the same problem occurs (I have chrome, opera, firefox, and IE7 on my work machine because of the development work I do, and some of the museum software won't even work in the firefox IE tab), if it does with firefox try IE7.
Also a couple of pages from a quick google of the problem:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=0b866f03b738c862&hl=en
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=460358ca0747df6d&hl=en
See if those help. Looks like it's a known problem so hopefully a patch should be up and coming.
I've spent a lot of years running Opera, but have to admit that slowly but surly I am being converted to Firefox again. Especially with its no script add-on.