Shockwave flash crashes on youtube

StormWeapon

United States159 Posts

February 16 2011 13:51 GMT

As of a few days ago, whenever I try to expand or fullscreen a video on youtube, Shockwave flash crashes. I have not noticed a problem on other sites yet.
It's not a huge deal for me but I was curious if anyone could think of why this happens.

Another fun fact: I just went to youtube and re-loaded a crashed video, it started in expanded-mode, so I shrinked it (no problem) then expanded again and it crashed.

BlueCow

167 Posts

February 16 2011 17:14 GMT

reinstall shockwave and flash, go to Add Remove Programs in the control panel (or Uninstall A Program depending what your using) and uninstall both first though. Make sure you uninstall all previous versions that might be on there. Then redownload and install from below

http://get.adobe.com/shockwave/

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

sometimes they just get corrupted for whatever reason

leungwk01

United Kingdom1260 Posts

February 16 2011 20:49 GMT

I had a similar problem with the recent flash update. Freezes on both firefox and chrome but not opera.
I could view any flash content but whenever I full screen it everything will freeze, when I restart firefox I will not be able to view any flash content.
My temporary fix atm was right click video -> disable 'enable hardware acceleration'

StormWeapon

United States159 Posts

February 18 2011 02:07 GMT

On February 17 2011 02:14 BlueCow wrote:
reinstall shockwave and flash, go to Add Remove Programs in the control panel (or Uninstall A Program depending what your using) and uninstall both first though. Make sure you uninstall all previous versions that might be on there. Then redownload and install from below

http://get.adobe.com/shockwave/

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

sometimes they just get corrupted for whatever reason

Thanks broski, appreciate it.
Doing so now. I feel stupid for not just thinking of the ever-present reinstall option.

BlueCow

167 Posts

February 18 2011 02:46 GMT

for sure man, hope that works for ya, let us know

aike

United States1629 Posts

February 18 2011 02:46 GMT

On February 18 2011 11:07 StormWeapon wrote:

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Thanks broski, appreciate it.
Doing so now. I feel stupid for not just thinking of the ever-present reinstall option.

That might not fix it still, I tried it at work but still kept crashing. It makes no sense cuz Chrome was using a slightly older version than IE/FF but they all crashed just the same. Something with the latest 10.2 version or w/e. Only on streaming flash videos.

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