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Shockwave Flash Crashes In Google Chrome -No More(Solved) !!
DIR By: BoBo
Date: July 24, 2012, 4:41 am
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This crash had been disturbing me for a while.No more son of a
crash !!
What Is The Problem ?
When trying to browse a Flash-based website e.g. Facebook games,
YouTube or use tools like Google Mail (which also rely on Flash)
in Google Chrome, the Flash plugin crashes with a message
saying: “The following plugin has crashed: Shockwave Flash“.
What Does That Mean?
Ignore the reference to Shockwave – the error message ‘the
following plugin has crashed: Shockwave Flash’ means that the
Adobe Flash Player plugin has crashed – it has nothing to do
with Adobe Shockwave Player which is a separate program.
What Causes The Crashes?
As I noted recently in updating Adobe Flash, Google Chrome
already includes an integrated version of Flash Player which is
automatically updated by Chrome – there is normally no need to
download the standalone version of Flash Player which is
intended for non-IE users (primarily Firefox).
However, if Firefox or a similar web browser is (or has ever
been) installed on your computer, then you have likely
alsoinstalled the standalone version of Flash for Firefox and
other web browsers – and this would include Chrome.
Therefore Chrome tries to use two versions of Flash Player – its
own version built into Chrome and the standalone Adobe version
you installed for Firefox/others. Having both versions active
often causes ‘the following plugin has crashed: Shockwave Flash’
error message because they may conflict with each other.
Note: just to make things slightly more confusing, Chrome 19
also reintroduced the experimental PepperFlash plugin – this is
still under testing and should be left disabled.
How To Fix It
Open Chrome
Type about:plugins into the website address bar at the top
and press the ENTER key to display Chrome’s Plugins page
Look down the list of Plugins for ‘Flash’ – if it says ‘Flash (3
files)’ you do have both versions of Flash installed (and
PepperFlash) – this may cause Chrome to crash when accessing
Flash-based websites
Click on the ‘+ Details’ link at the top right of the Plugins
page to expand the list of all Plugins
Scroll down the list to find the Flash plugins – you should now
see the full details of the Flash plugins which may display
three versions of Flash as in the example below:
Flash Plugins (including the disabled Pepperflash)
Look at the ‘Location:’ of each version – the integrated Chrome
version is in (…Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application etc)
and the standalone Adobe (formerly Macromedia) version is in the
…Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash etc directory.
Click on ‘Disable’ just under the Location of the Chrome version
to disable it (and it will become greyed out).Only the Adobe
version should be enabled.Rest all disabled (grayed)
Ensure that the standalone Adobe version is enabled – if it is
disabled (grayed out) click the ‘Enable’ link just under its
Location to enable it) then close the Plugins tab
Download and save to your computer the latest Adobe standalone
version of Flash from the Adobe website for free.
Close Chrome and then install the newest standalone version of
Flash you just downloaded. The recent Flash 11.2 version offers
the option of automatic silent updates – recommended to keep it
up to date automatically in future.
Finally, start Chrome and visit the Adobe Flash Player test page
to check that Flash is now properly installed and working Ok.
#Post#: 36--------------------------------------------------
Re: Shockwave Flash Crashes In Google Chrome -No More(Solved) !!
DIR By: Xtreme
Date: July 24, 2012, 9:16 am
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Nice tutorial.
This might help some one.
But worng place,this topic should be posted on Computer
Tutorials.
Click on 'Move Topic' Tab under the topic and move to Computer
Tutorials.
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