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JerKy
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Korea (South)3013 Posts
July 30 2012 02:45 GMT
#1
Hey TL

I currently have a dual-monitor set up on my laptop; its an extended display with a second monitor (laptop display = primary, external monitor = secondary)

I've always used the 2nd monitor to play videos while doing other things on the laptop screen. I just fullscreen a video on the secondary display, then alt tab to a different window. Doing this has always maintained the fullscreen on my secondary display

In the past week, however, I've come to realize I can no longer do that
I thought it was an update on twitch or something, but for ANY video (own3d, youtube, etc), whenever I try to alt+tab to something else, the fullscreen is reverted back to normal size

Has anyone experienced this issue or know how to fix it?

If it helps, Im using Chrome on a Windows 7 OS
If any other details are essential, please let me know

Thanks in advance!
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Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20322 Posts
July 30 2012 03:10 GMT
#2
I saw the same thing with a Flash Player update recently
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
legoboomette
Profile Joined December 2011
England165 Posts
August 03 2012 15:23 GMT
#3
I've started having the same problem recently, has anyone found a fix yet?
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Denar
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
France1633 Posts
August 03 2012 15:33 GMT
#4
Yeah, since today it seems that streams have been doing shit on dual screen.

I have this same alt-tab problem, but I also have the fullscreen displaying on the wrong screen. I'm interested in any solution.
Roffles *
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
Pitcairn19291 Posts
August 04 2012 18:43 GMT
#5
Second this. It's pretty annoying really.
God Bless
Infernal_dream
Profile Joined September 2011
United States2359 Posts
August 04 2012 18:46 GMT
#6
If you guys are using google chrome you can go into chromes options and disable chrome's flash to fix this. I don't know about other browsers.
SunTurtle
Profile Blog Joined January 2012
156 Posts
August 05 2012 00:38 GMT
#7
On August 05 2012 03:46 Infernal_dream wrote:
If you guys are using google chrome you can go into chromes options and disable chrome's flash to fix this. I don't know about other browsers.


could you elaborate a bit on this? I'm dying for a solution, and this seems to be one, but I can't make heads or tails out of it
skyR
Profile Joined July 2009
Canada13817 Posts
August 05 2012 00:53 GMT
#8
chrome://plugins/ and disable flash
SunTurtle
Profile Blog Joined January 2012
156 Posts
August 05 2012 00:57 GMT
#9
yeah, but then you can't play anything that requires flash at all.
skyR
Profile Joined July 2009
Canada13817 Posts
August 05 2012 01:09 GMT
#10
You disable 11.3 and use 11.2.
TMStarcraft
Profile Joined September 2010
Australia686 Posts
August 05 2012 01:34 GMT
#11
On August 04 2012 00:33 Denar wrote:
Yeah, since today it seems that streams have been doing shit on dual screen.

I have this same alt-tab problem, but I also have the fullscreen displaying on the wrong screen. I'm interested in any solution.

windows key + shift + left/right arrow, moves things to from one screen to the other.

Are you guys watching with the sound muted in the flash player? I find that when it's muted it cannot maintain fullscreen for whatever reason.
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devzlol
Profile Joined August 2012
2 Posts
August 05 2012 05:27 GMT
#12
And how do I downgrade to lower version of flash, cuz I couldnt figure it out.
And as TMStarcraft mentioned, yea before it was just a problem when the stream was muted, but now all the time and not just on twitch / owned but youtube and shit.
- pain is temporary, pride is forever -
Thravia
Profile Joined August 2012
Denmark3 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-05 05:37:25
August 05 2012 05:35 GMT
#13
I just registered in order to take part of this discussion.
I have tried to downgrade to flash version 10.3 and 11.2 - none of them fixed the issue.
This is really frustrating, does anybody have a clue how to fix this?
It was frustrating enough that I coulden't have a muted stream open and tab away without having it rezise back to normal size, but this is unbareable.

EDIT:
I have noticed, that beforehand, when I clicked fullscren on a video, or stream, in my task bar, it would show as the flash player icon. When I do it now, it's another of my browser (google chrome) opening, and when I alt tab away, it closes and I return to the one I already had open.
i leik dem rainbawz
Thravia
Profile Joined August 2012
Denmark3 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-05 07:09:56
August 05 2012 05:51 GMT
#14
Ok after doing some more testing, I present to you; the solution:

1.
Go to this site and download the version 10.3.183.20 and put the downloaded items within a folder on your dekstop.

2.
Run both the flashplayer10_3r183_15_win.exe and install it, and afterwards run the flashplayer10_3r183_15_win_sa.exe file and install it (It's probably just one of these, but I installed both and it worked).

3.
Open up chrome://plugins/ (copy-pasta) in your browser
Hit "Details" to the far right, and a ton of stuff will drop down.
You will see that you have multiple versions of flash installed.
Hit "Deactivate" or "Disable" (My browser in not in english, so not sure) on the versions that is NOT the 10.3 one.

4.
Open up any youtube video and make it fullscreen.
If you can alt+tab away, without reseting it to normal size, you've done it correct.


No problem
i leik dem rainbawz
devzlol
Profile Joined August 2012
2 Posts
August 05 2012 06:09 GMT
#15
Thanks for your efforts Thravia!

Solved my problem however there are some typos or dunno in your solution!

In the 10.3.183.20 there are files with _20 ending.
And when you wrote Open up this link you meant chrome://plugins/

Anyway thanks , the only thing that keeps bugging me whenever I open a page with flash content theres a popup about my flashplayer is outdated.. but whatever atleast its working and hope Adobe will fix their shit! ^^
- pain is temporary, pride is forever -
Thravia
Profile Joined August 2012
Denmark3 Posts
August 05 2012 07:08 GMT
#16
Aha, thanks for noticing, I'll edit my post.
Yeah, I get notified about that too, don't know what to do about it.
i leik dem rainbawz
Oldfool
Profile Joined January 2011
Australia394 Posts
August 05 2012 07:09 GMT
#17
What I did is just went into chrome plugins and disable the pepflashplayer.dll component of the flash plugin. Fixed it for me.
"The trouble with quotes on the internet is that it is difficult to discern whether or not they are genuine." - Abraham Lincoln
Seeton
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
Australia34 Posts
August 07 2012 08:26 GMT
#18
I did what Oldfool suggested, and it's sorted the issue
TzaTzers
Profile Joined April 2009
United States589 Posts
August 07 2012 09:24 GMT
#19
Yea that (Oldfool's method) seemed to work for me as well and seems like the easiest to do, thanks to Thravia too.
"Why did the colossus fall over? because he was imbalanced..."
DodgySmalls
Profile Joined June 2012
Canada158 Posts
August 08 2012 05:22 GMT
#20
This appears to be a problem with a chrome update, it works perfectly fine on Opera for me, though I have several odd errors with flash video and chrome.
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JerKy
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Korea (South)3013 Posts
August 08 2012 06:11 GMT
#21
thank you thank you thank you!! :D

tl is the best
You can type "StarCraft" with just your left hand.
ehMove
Profile Joined April 2011
Canada14 Posts
August 10 2012 13:24 GMT
#22
Oldfool you're my hero, ty
"A three year old is not half a six year old." ~ Sir Ken Robinson
Billinator
Profile Joined July 2012
United States86 Posts
January 22 2014 06:19 GMT
#23
On August 05 2012 03:46 Infernal_dream wrote:
If you guys are using google chrome you can go into chromes options and disable chrome's flash to fix this. I don't know about other browsers.

Thank you man, This was really getting on my nerves, I like having it fulled screen in the background when I am doing other shit. Thanks for the fix, it works! :D
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