Hey everyone,
I know a lot of people, including myself, were having problems with Lion freezing, mainly when playing Flash videos (mainly from YouTube). I was so pissed off I was considering putting SL back on my computer but figured I would try a couple of things first, and I found something that works!!!!
So here is what needs to be done:
1. Open Disk Utility (in spotlight type in Disk Utility)
2. Go through all internal drives (or external if running from it) and either Repair Disk Permissions or Repair Disk (only one or the other will be selectable at a time)
3. Go to http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/ and select Mac OSX as Operating System and then the only option as the version and download it.
4. Install the Flash Player (it will make you close all browser windows). When installing, you should get a message that says "This version of Flash Player is a beta release on Mac OSX 10.7....." Click 'Yes' (I did NOT get this message when I downloaded it from the normal Flash Player download page.
5. Restart computer.
6. ENJOY! No more freezing!!! :-D
I hope this helps everyone! If it doesn't help you, the only other option I could think of is going to http://www.youtube.com/html5 and joining the HTML version of YouTube so that your mac doesn't crash anymore. Good luck!!
- Joe
I know a lot of people, including myself, were having problems with Lion freezing, mainly when playing Flash videos (mainly from YouTube). I was so pissed off I was considering putting SL back on my computer but figured I would try a couple of things first, and I found something that works!!!!
So here is what needs to be done:
1. Open Disk Utility (in spotlight type in Disk Utility)
2. Go through all internal drives (or external if running from it) and either Repair Disk Permissions or Repair Disk (only one or the other will be selectable at a time)
3. Go to http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/ and select Mac OSX as Operating System and then the only option as the version and download it.
4. Install the Flash Player (it will make you close all browser windows). When installing, you should get a message that says "This version of Flash Player is a beta release on Mac OSX 10.7....." Click 'Yes' (I did NOT get this message when I downloaded it from the normal Flash Player download page.
5. Restart computer.
6. ENJOY! No more freezing!!! :-D
I hope this helps everyone! If it doesn't help you, the only other option I could think of is going to http://www.youtube.com/html5 and joining the HTML version of YouTube so that your mac doesn't crash anymore. Good luck!!
- Joe