Flash dies in Safari, re-launch revives it

[DominikHoffmann]

I'm probably not the only one with Safari 5.1.5 and Flash 11.2.202.235 who has flash content go entirely black on pages like those on YouTube. In that case, if I really want to view the video, I quit and re-launch Safari, which makes the page come back with the video content displayed properly.

Given that this happens once or twice a day, I would live to find a solution better than the re-launch routine or to wait until either Apple or Adobe find the issue and fix it.

Does anyone have any ideas? I just looked at a thread that was started many months ago, where it looked like it had something to do with YouTube cookies and a re-launch didn't provide a work-around. This tells me that what I am experiencing is different.

 

[gentlefury]

I'm probably not the only one with Safari 5.1.5 and Flash 11.2.202.235 who has flash content go entirely black on pages like those on YouTube. In that case, if I really want to view the video, I quit and re-launch Safari, which makes the page come back with the video content displayed properly.

Given that this happens once or twice a day, I would live to find a solution better than the re-launch routine or to wait until either Apple or Adobe find the issue and fix it.

Does anyone have any ideas? I just looked at a thread that was started many months ago, where it looked like it had something to do with YouTube cookies and a re-launch didn't provide a work-around. This tells me that what I am experiencing is different.

Youtube completely locks up on me now. It loads the page then just locks safari until I force close it.

 

[DominikHoffmann]

It's happened again. This time I verified that it happens with Vimeo, too. This points not to YouTube alone, but to Flash or Safari in how it interacts with Flash.

 

[sofasurfer]

Been having a nightmare with Flash based content over the last few weeks. I get the black screen when playing youtube videos...although the audio plays fine.

I also get some sites ( including MacRumors) that just show a blank page when it has loaded. A reboot will sort it out but just like the op this is happening at least twice a day.

using the flash removal tool and reinstalling the latest version of Flash hasn't helped either.

 

[lighthouse_man]

Same problem here, but Safari just freezes completely. Everything is up to the latest update. Temporarily resolved by playing flash videos in Firefox and Chrome.