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Flash Freezes all browsers...

aross99

aross99

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Dec 17, 2006
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I searched for this, but I have not been able to find any solution to the issue of Flash freezing browsers on Leopard. A number of people seem to be having this issue with Flash 10.

I have a MacBook with 10.5.6 and all updates, and the latest flash from Adobe.

Using Safari or Firefox, I am unable to display sites with flash. For example, when going to http://www.mlb.com, the page begins to load, and hangs at the end, with a spinning cursor. Only option is to force quit.

Deleting flash allows the page to display, but obviously w/o flash.

Reinstalling flash (version 9 or 10), brings back the freeze.

Other machines I have (MBP) with the same software, work fine.

Creating a new user has the same issue.

Restart, and Repairing permissions has no effect...

Everything was working fine last night, and nothing significant has changed since then...

Any suggestions?
 
aross99 said:
...Using Safari or Firefox, I am unable to display sites with flash. For example, when going to http://www.mlb.com, the page begins to load, and hangs at the end, with a spinning cursor. Only option is to force quit...
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After looking at all of the files with "Flash" in the name that were outside of the user folder, I found the following folder:

/Library/Application Support/Macromedia

This seems to be the root of the problem. I removed flash, then removed this folder, and then reinstalled flash.

Everything seems to be OK now.

The folder was NOT recreated, and I have that same folder on my other machines. Not sure why this is an issue, but it resolved the issue for me!
 
aross99 said:
The folder was NOT recreated, and I have that same folder on my other machines. Not sure why this is an issue, but it resolved the issue for me!
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Maybe it was left over from an old version and somehow causing problems by still trying to work with the new version of flash.
 
I always stick with the version Apple provides with OS X and never had any troubles.
 
aross99 said:
After looking at all of the files with "Flash" in the name that were outside of the user folder, I found the following folder:

/Library/Application Support/Macromedia

This seems to be the root of the problem. I removed flash, then removed this folder, and then reinstalled flash.

Everything seems to be OK now.

The folder was NOT recreated, and I have that same folder on my other machines. Not sure why this is an issue, but it resolved the issue for me!
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I think your browser(s) use "Flash Player.plugin" & flashplayer.xpt from /Library/"Internet Plug-Ins" or ~/Library/"Internet Plug-Ins"

PS I have the same Macromedia folder but it only contains Shockwave.
 
macrem said:
I think your browser(s) use "Flash Player.plugin" & flashplayer.xpt from /Library/"Internet Plug-Ins" or ~/Library/"Internet Plug-Ins"

PS I have the same Macromedia folder but it only contains Shockwave.
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There was more to this an just the plug in. The plug in was replaced with a uninstall/install, but something about the files in that other folder caused the problem.

I agree that it was probably left over from a previous version. I only figured it out after I realized that the problem had to be outside of the user folder, which meant it was probably in /Library.

My MBP has both the Shockwave the Flash files in this directory and it still works, so I guess the Flash file must have become corrupt or something...
 
Yesterday the same problem started happening to me, it came out of the blue. I reinstalled, deleted, everything I could think of, nothing works. :(
 
Also I've noticed that youtube never freezes even in HD, but sites like southparkstudios.com, megavideo and mlb.com do. /=
 
I had the same issue of freezing up in safari and firefox on my imac, but not on my Macbook pro, tried the uninstall/reinstall flash plugin, problem remained. I finally found (in what seemed to be unrelated forum) the Close browser, delete file: /user/library/prefrences/Macromedia/Flash Player. then open browser, and since then no more freezing up on random sites with flash.. Hope this helps :apple:
 
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