Adobe Flash... Grrr!

Amp34 · 21 Apr 2009 at 18:41

flash and I don't seem to be getting on recently. Flash 10 was attrocious and seemed to cause my browser to crash constantly so I went back to Flash 9, which helped matters for a while but in the last few days it is starting to get bad as well, with even iplayer causing my browser to crash now.

Anyone got any suggestions or solutions I can try? I'm using Vista Business (although it is the same with my Ultimate PC as well) with IE7. Is IE8 any better?

Thanls

Greenlizard0 · 21 Apr 2009 at 18:57

I can't help but I'm going through the same problems. Flash 10 just failed with Opera, so I reinstalled both and now they seem to work.

I despise flash, it's a bloaty whore, that sometimes goes totally awry.

Amp34 · 21 Apr 2009 at 19:45

It's just the same with Firefox too, except when it crashes the one window it takes all of them with it...

I'll try reinstalling 9 again and see if that helps, but that really is no solution.

J.B · 21 Apr 2009 at 20:02

I had problems with 10 on IE7, cant say I've run into any on IE8

Amp34 · 21 Apr 2009 at 20:41

I'll try sticking 8 on then. Any problems with it atm?

J.B · 21 Apr 2009 at 20:43

Nah, it's really good, until the next major security scare MS have done a really good job

bledd · 22 Apr 2009 at 09:54

what security software do you use? might be causing problems with flash

Greenlizard0 · 22 Apr 2009 at 11:22

bledd. said:
what security software do you use? might be causing problems with flash

Ah of course. Hmmm. I'm using Kaspersky Internet Suite.

Could this result in a website not even downloading? I have checked with friends that don't use it to see if it's still working, and it is. :confused:

bledd · 22 Apr 2009 at 11:32

well it can do, zonealarm does all kinds of funny things

try disabling it and try the site again

plus I use firefox, not opera, so have very little knowledge of how good their flash plugin is, i'd imagine it's pretty mature by now though

Greenlizard0 · 22 Apr 2009 at 12:11

Yeap, that's worked perfectly. Should I be adding in the site, flash, or Opera into an exceptions rule? Would it even be safe to do the latter two?

bledd · 22 Apr 2009 at 12:13

can you report it on their forum?

i have nod32 in work, and don't have my experience with kaspersky tbh mate

tolien · 22 Apr 2009 at 17:32

bledd. said:
plus I use firefox, not opera, so have very little knowledge of how good their flash plugin is, i'd imagine it's pretty mature by now though

Opera uses the nsapi plugin, exactly the same as Firefox, Chrome, Safari etc. The only exception is IE.

Amp34 · 22 Apr 2009 at 19:12

bledd. said:
can you report it on their forum?

i have nod32 in work, and don't have my experience with kaspersky tbh mate

I'm using Nod32 here, maybe that is the problem?

Both IE7 and Firefox are as bad as each other so it doesn't seem to be browser specific.

Amp34 · 23 Apr 2009 at 14:39

I turned Nod32 off for a bit to see if that helped, nope, so it's not an AV problem. Updating to IE8 or reinstalling don't seem to have solved the problem either...

(In fact IE8 is now more of a problem than IE7, as it can randomly take out another window when one goes...)

Sumanji · 23 Apr 2009 at 22:27

Hey,

I'm having a problem on my Netbook where iPlayer seizes up after about 30 seconds, and the "System" process starts hogging about 20% CPU usage. Running a clean Firefox 3.0.0.9 with no add-ons on Windows XP. Could this be flash related? I've uninstalled Flash 10, but can't find a download for Flash 9... could you point me to it please?

Cheers,

Suman

Greenlizard0 · 23 Apr 2009 at 22:39

bledd. said:
can you report it on their forum?

i have nod32 in work, and don't have my experience with kaspersky tbh mate

No worries fella.

This is turning into a bigger pain in the rear. Now Tesco's shop site won't load up properly. HOW WILL I ORDER GARLIC NOW!?

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