With every Flash update, the plugin crashes more and more

Inazuma

Inazuma

Inazuma

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Hi,
I have used Flash and a variety of browsers happily for years without any problems. When Mac users were awlays complaining that Flash is **** because it always crashes, I naivley thought, "What? Flash can crash?"

Then about two years ago I saw it crash for the first time ever - and on Chrome of all browsers. Since then (and for unrelated reasons) I've moved back to Firefox and in the past year or two when they've been apparently making the plugin more stable (by making it a seperate process and giving it hardware accelleration) it's simply gotten worse. With every update, the crashes happen more and more often. It can crash at any time on any site, except for when I'm not using the browser. Often I have to go into Task Manager to end the Flash process.

Windows 7 64bit, 8gb RAM, Nvidia GTX 460, Intel i7.
Graphics driver: 301.42 (Latest WHQL from May)
Firefox ver: 14.0.1 (Latest)
Flash ver: 11,3,300,265 (Latest)
 
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I rarely come across a site that uses it for anything other than video content so I couldn't say what it's crashing on other than videos
 
I find it buggy and crashy too. The problems occur on both Firefox and Chrome, and both Windows and Mac. It's difficult to pin them down because there are various issues which occur at seemingly random times. It could crash on video content, but equally it can be in another situation - one version used to crash when I was using GMail, for some reason.

I've come to the conclusion that it's just poor software, and the best fix is to wait a few more years for it to die the death it deserves.
 
Our work machines, virtually all XP will have the flash updater crash almost every day. My machines at home and the couple of win7 machines do not suffer this issue.
Flash itself does not crash, but the background updating service does.
 
Something else must come into it, I'm struggling to remember the last Flash crash I saw, using Chrome almost exclusively at work and home. Even on Dolphin HD mobile browser has been solid as a rock
 
IE9 is the same it was fine for months then in the last few months every flash update is causing more & more webpages with flash on to hang & crash.

I suspect Adobe are not doing enough QA & rushing these updates out the door :(
 
theheyes said:
Is that really such a good idea? Flash is a liability at the best of times. The only thing worse than Flash is an old version of Flash.
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Very true. Flash is one of the most important things to keep up to date due to all the security holes inside it. Its one of the main attack vectors into computers these days.
 
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