It happens about once a day now with Safari. Sometimes it causes my MBP to crash. I know all the controversy about Apple and Flash, but is it this common? I do have the latest versions of Flash and Safari, but is the problem this ubiquitous or is there probably something I'm doing wrong with my 1 year old 13" MBP (4 GB RAM, 2.26 Ghz, 250GB)
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Flash causing Safari/MBP to crash - how common is this?
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If you're trying to load and/or use a large amount at a single given point in time, what you're describing sounds pretty common. It's probably not an issue with your computer, but rather Mac OS; it has never really played nice with flash. It could potentially be overloading your CPU.
I'm having similar problems with Flash and Safari/Firefox/Chrome. The plugin crashes multiple times per day, but thankfully the newest versions of the browsers (for me) allow Flash to crash without crashing the browser.
Same here, when I play the flash game on facebook, it will crash momentarily. However, Firefox 4 has just released today, and one of their new features is that when the flash crash, it will not crash the whole application, but only that tab. So they said you can simply refresh that tab to get everything normal again. I haven't tried it yet, but would be...
I had this problem for a few weeks after I upgraded to the latest version of Safari 5. This is the only thing that worked for me:
Close Safari and navigate to your "USERS/yourname" folder, then "Library" and finally "Caches". Drag the folder that says "com.apple.Safari" to the Trash and reopen Safari. See if that helps.
Close Safari and navigate to your "USERS/yourname" folder, then "Library" and finally "Caches". Drag the folder that says "com.apple.Safari" to the Trash and reopen Safari. See if that helps.
