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Adobe flash player keeps crashing (/questions/962745)

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I am kept getting shockwave crash/ adove flash plug in crash. I tied to download adove new version plug in and update everything but it won't' work. It was working fine until yesterday.

I am kept getting shockwave crash/ adove flash plug in crash. I tied to download adove new version plug in and update everything but it won't' work. It was working fine until yesterday.

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Recent crashes of certain multimedia contents (this includes Youtube videos, certain flash games and other applications) in conjunction with Firefox are most probably caused by a recent Flash update and/or a malfunctioning browser plugin such as Real Player.

In order to remedy the problem, please perform the steps mentioned in these Knowledge Base articles:

Other, more technical information about these issues can be found under these Links:

You can check for problems with current Flash plugin versions and try these:

  • disable a possible RealPlayer Browser Record Plugin extension for Firefox and update the RealPlayer if installed
  • disable protected mode in the Flash plugin (Flash 11.3+ on Windows Vista and later)
  • disable hardware acceleration in the Flash plugin

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Flash#Troubleshooting

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