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Lion + Flash = Freeze, widespread problem? [Reported]
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I'm like a traumatized dog. Anytime I want to watch a video online, I get really paranoid. This is not living.
IMHO, I think the bug is on Quicktime X or iTunes or both.
Last night, AGAIN, under Snow Leopard, I got the choppy / frozen (couple of secs per minute) bad experience of watching podcasts downloaded via iTunes and watched (as usual) via Front Row. I had to restart the Mac and everything was fine...
This annoyance is resembling the pain of using a PC with Windows...
Last night, AGAIN, under Snow Leopard, I got the choppy / frozen (couple of secs per minute) bad experience of watching podcasts downloaded via iTunes and watched (as usual) via Front Row. I had to restart the Mac and everything was fine...
This annoyance is resembling the pain of using a PC with Windows...
Brand new iMac freezing several times a day
Just spoke with a "senior" applecare advisor on my 2nd phone call for this subject. He claimed ignorance on the issue. He says they have routine Lion OS meetings to discuss "issues" and this is NOT one of them. He suggested I reinstall Adobe flash and be on my way. Should I call Adobe support? Is there such a thing?
I too hope that someone is taking care of this issue as I'm considering wiping my hard drive and reinstalling Snow Leopard tonight. Ugh. Spent over 2 grand on a very fast iMac and it crashes trying to play web videos.
Just spoke with a "senior" applecare advisor on my 2nd phone call for this subject. He claimed ignorance on the issue. He says they have routine Lion OS meetings to discuss "issues" and this is NOT one of them. He suggested I reinstall Adobe flash and be on my way. Should I call Adobe support? Is there such a thing?
I too hope that someone is taking care of this issue as I'm considering wiping my hard drive and reinstalling Snow Leopard tonight. Ugh. Spent over 2 grand on a very fast iMac and it crashes trying to play web videos.
9to5 just reported the issue too (finally). The more attention this gets, the more pressure Apple should (hopefully?) feel in fixing it.
Oops, forgot to include the link: http://9to5mac.com/2011/07/28/users-report-video-related-freezes-in-lion/
Oops, forgot to include the link: http://9to5mac.com/2011/07/28/users-report-video-related-freezes-in-lion/
Not me?
I am not having this problem, with flash or quicktime. I guess I'm just lucky...if it matters, i have a 27" iMac 2011 base model with a WD hard drive and i just installed lion over snow leopard, no clean install here...i havnt had any problems people are saying about lion hmm I'm lucky it seems
I am not having this problem, with flash or quicktime. I guess I'm just lucky...if it matters, i have a 27" iMac 2011 base model with a WD hard drive and i just installed lion over snow leopard, no clean install here...i havnt had any problems people are saying about lion hmm I'm lucky it seems
This problem happens after full sleep (meaning the hard drive sleeps). If you've woken your computer from full sleep and ran flash/QT/iTunes videos with no freezes, then you're good. Though that's very peculiar because this is a problem with Lion, and not necessarily hardware parts. Surely, you have the same Lion version we have. : shrug : But kudos.
Well! For what it's worth, it doesn't seem to be happening to me as often anymore. I can play flash videos after waking from sleep. Maybe it's happening on occasion. I don't know what's going on. It was happening to me like clockwork, without fail before -- after sleep, Flash/QT/iTunes videos guaranteed a freeze.
Now it's anyone's guess.
EDIT: Nope. Problem still exists.
Now it's anyone's guess.
EDIT: Nope. Problem still exists.
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My iMac is a mid 2010. With lion and like the song, it always sleeps.
Must be a 2011 issue
No problems here either, after waking from sleep and playing flash I get a beach ball for 2-3 seconds then it plays fine.
Mid 2010 2.8 i5
I can find the link.
Son, i am dissapoint
Basically it was an alternate link on the adobe site for a specific flash download and not just the normal route.
Just want to chip in and say I'm having none of these problems. I'm using the 64bit Flash 11 beta under Lion (a clean install of Lion). I even followed some of the steps here that are supposed to lead to a freeze, nada. I'm on a 2009 MBP unibody.
I can find the link.
Son, i am dissapoint
Basically it was an alternate link on the adobe site for a specific flash download and not just the normal route.
This post?
So far resuming from sleep, my 2011 27" iMac that came with Lion, crashes after I watch a flash video (Youtube) and a video podcast on iTunes (MP4 vid). Only way to restart is to hold down the power button. They better come out with a fix this week.
Same here...
Same problem here.
2011 iMac 21.5", BTO 2.8GHz i7, 12GB RAM, 1TB HD, Lion 10.7 (upgrade from SL).
From a fresh power cycle, everything behaves as it should. The problem will only occur once the machine has been woken from sleep mode.
Playing any video content once the machine wakes from sleep will cause a complete freeze of all UI elements apart from the mouse pointer. I can move the pointer, but cannot interact with anything (menus, Dock, nothing). The iMac will also not respond to any keyboard input. Holding down power for 5 seconds is the only solution I've found.
Music will continue to play in the background, as will the audio track to whichever video file caused the UI to freeze.
I do not believe this is a Flash issue. My iMac behaves like this for any video content (played in iTunes, from Finder, etc), occurs if I attempt to play HTML5 video content in place of Flash video in the browser, occurs irrespective of the version of Flash installed (including the beta 11 64-bit release) and even occurs if I completely uninstall Flash.
Never experienced anything like this in Snow Leopard so it's definitely new for Lion.
I would guess this is a video driver issue specific to the latest iMacs related to sleep mode.
-Dan
Same problem here.
2011 iMac 21.5", BTO 2.8GHz i7, 12GB RAM, 1TB HD, Lion 10.7 (upgrade from SL).
From a fresh power cycle, everything behaves as it should. The problem will only occur once the machine has been woken from sleep mode.
Playing any video content once the machine wakes from sleep will cause a complete freeze of all UI elements apart from the mouse pointer. I can move the pointer, but cannot interact with anything (menus, Dock, nothing). The iMac will also not respond to any keyboard input. Holding down power for 5 seconds is the only solution I've found.
Music will continue to play in the background, as will the audio track to whichever video file caused the UI to freeze.
I do not believe this is a Flash issue. My iMac behaves like this for any video content (played in iTunes, from Finder, etc), occurs if I attempt to play HTML5 video content in place of Flash video in the browser, occurs irrespective of the version of Flash installed (including the beta 11 64-bit release) and even occurs if I completely uninstall Flash.
Never experienced anything like this in Snow Leopard so it's definitely new for Lion.
I would guess this is a video driver issue specific to the latest iMacs related to sleep mode.
-Dan
It's a 2011 iMac graphics issue....a friend of mine just got one and said it freezes all the time. My Mac Pro, Mac Mini and Macbook Air all run flawlessly!