Flash crashing OS X 10.6.1 browsers?
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I recently upgraded to the latest version of OS X, 10.6.1 and ever since then I have been having problems with sites that use Adobe’s Flash software. The problem isn’t isolated to a few specific sites, it is every site that uses Flash. I have tried with Safari, Opera, and Firefox and they all have the exact same problem: Go to a site that uses Flash, have the screen freeze, see the spinning beach ball of death, and then Force Quit the application because there is no getting out of it.
I have seen quite a few postings over at the Apple.com support site and a quick search on Google for the phrase “Flash crashing Macs” yields quite a few results dealing with this issue. You can easily get around the crashing issue by disabling browser plug-ins, but then you are left browsing the Flash heavy Internet without Flash - which isn’t all that useful.
I’ve downloaded the latest Flash player for the Mac directly from the Adobe site but that hasn’t remedied anything; I’ve run a complete permissions repair on my system twice now, and each time there have been huge numbers of permission problems with the Adobe Flash player. Even after the repair was complete the browsers are still crashing immediately on Flash sites.
Is this a huge deal? Not really. If my only computer problem is my inability to look at Flash videos on the Internet for a few days, then I’m doing pretty well. Adobe or Apple will have a fix up soon. Who knows, I might grow to like browsing the Web without Flash; I’ve always felt that it should be restricted to YouTube, Homestarrunner.com, and kept out of everything else.
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jeff norris
September 14th, 2009
at 3:04pm
well about time someone from the OSx side of the fence said this! people continue to rip on windows with flash issues, and even blame site providers like ustream.tv or yoututbe for browser crashes when its flash content.
we rely too much on multimedia solution like flash, but would bitch and moan if we had to reinvent the wheel…
Kawazoe Masahiro
September 14th, 2009
at 3:19pm
I have absolutelly no problem with flash. It might be because I use the Click to Flash open source software. It’s a wrapper that disable flash and let you activate the pluging quickly when needed.
Eddie Ringle
September 14th, 2009
at 3:26pm
HTML5 in combination with JavaScript will eventually be competition for Flash, hooray for progress!
Mike
September 14th, 2009
at 5:57pm
I went to the game site you posted and had no crashes on the latest firefox “stable” 3.5 version.
Barrie
September 15th, 2009
at 8:53am
Its a massive flaw, and only since I upgraded to 10.6.1 so I can only assume its related to something Apple “fixed” there…
Jeff
September 15th, 2009
at 4:13pm
I am in the same boat. Uninstalling/reinstalling Flash and running repairs seemed to help, but the problem is back a week later.
joel
October 5th, 2009
at 11:32am
i found the fix. uninstall flash then reinstall the 10.6.1 update. then reinstall flash. all better.
James Lehman
November 8th, 2009
at 1:44am
No doubt it you were sitting in IE on a Windows pc and had flash problems you would blame MS. Flash has been buggy on all platforms since the beginning. I’m very much looking forward to it being replaced sometime.