Flash Issue "Enable Hardware Acceleration"

[surfer99]

I just got a brand new 21" iMac and am running lion. I am having trouble getting any flash based video to play. I have seen that some websites give you instructions that if your running a mac you should right click and uncheck the "enable hardware acceleration" box. I can right click and get that box to pop up but once I do for some reason I cannot click anything inside of it, whether it be the tabs or the check/uncheck box. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[MrNomNoms]

I just got a brand new 21" iMac and am running lion. I am having trouble getting any flash based video to play. I have seen that some websites give you instructions that if your running a mac you should right click and uncheck the "enable hardware acceleration" box. I can right click and get that box to pop up but once I do for some reason I cannot click anything inside of it, whether it be the tabs or the check/uncheck box. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

This is a known bug (it is listed on the Adobe website, did you Google it?) thus you need to use a combination of the tab key and spacebar to navigate the dialogue box. From what I understand the issue has been resolved in the latest Flash update 10.3.181.5 (or something close to that).

 

[surfer99]

This is a known bug (it is listed on the Adobe website, did you Google it?) thus you need to use a combination of the tab key and spacebar to navigate the dialogue box. From what I understand the issue has been resolved in the latest Flash update 10.3.181.5 (or something close to that).

Thanks for the info, I did google it but I guess I didn't look hard enough. With your information I was able to highlight the box that I need to uncheck but I still can't uncheck the box. How do I go about that?

 

[Ubuntu]

Thanks for the info, I did google it but I guess I didn't look hard enough. With your information I was able to highlight the box that I need to uncheck but I still can't uncheck the box. How do I go about that?

Spacebar should do that once the actual checkbox is highlighted.

 

[surfer99]

Spacebar should do that once the actual checkbox is highlighted.

For some reason the spacebar only does something when it is either on the tabs on the bottom or when I am on the question mark at the top right of the box. Anytime I am in the actual box it never does anything no matter what tab I am on or what function/box I am trying to check or uncheck.

 

[Spike88]

For my iMac, I use "click to flash" Safari extension. For my system, it works without hanging the system. Perhaps this Safari extension can be used with Lion as well? re: http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/38007/clicktoflash

Hope this helps...

 

[surfer99]

For my iMac, I use "click to flash" Safari extension. For my system, it works without hanging the system. Perhaps this Safari extension can be used with Lion as well? re: http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/38007/clicktoflash

Hope this helps...

My computer won't let me download that file, I get the following message:

An error occurred while installing the extension “ClickToFlash”.

Any ideas?

 

[zorro999]

You need the new version of Flash

I had the same problem. Adobe just released a new version that fixes this problem. If you don't uncheck the "enable hardware acceleration", you will get audio, but no video from sites such as CNN.com Live.

 

[aliensporebomb]

Sigh.....

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