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nshiell
March 8th, 2011, 03:04 PM
After running an upgrade Chromium browser Shockwave Flash Plugin crashed!

If you have the same problem I have a workaround.


firstly open Firefox goto a website that uses flash (not YouTube) I used BBC iPlayer, then right click and click on "settings..."

The left most tab shows the "Enable hardware acceleration" tickbox
Untick it

Then close and reopen Chromium and go back to a flash site e.g. YouTube and test it is working.


The reason this worked for me is that there is a bug in either Googles Chromium or the Unix/X11 build of Shockwave Flash or my graphics card drivers

There seems to sevral bug reports regarding this on the net
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/716640

Flash could be a little slower now it doesn't have the hardware accelerating it. So maybe the setting could be re-enabled in the future?

dwpbike
March 8th, 2011, 11:38 PM
tanks for the workaround. after the youtube/google deadly embrace, doubly infuriating. did a firefox (which i never use) update this am. makes debian look attractive.

rodrigoeblanco
March 9th, 2011, 04:06 AM
Thanks I have been looking up for this for so long and installing and removing things, but it worked great for me!! Thanks again!!

quattroman
March 9th, 2011, 04:23 AM
Thanks, I had some videos crash all day, this was helpful.

u-lukatico
March 12th, 2011, 03:24 PM
Thaks!!!!!

foolishdonkey
March 12th, 2011, 09:01 PM
I had been trying to fix this for quite a while, and this was the only thing that worked, thanks!

h8uthemost
March 18th, 2011, 01:54 AM
EDIT: That worked perfectly. Thank you very much for the solution.

enginedave
March 18th, 2011, 03:44 PM
Thanks again this was bugging me for days. What a simple and effective solution. Great work.

Egor Tensin
March 19th, 2011, 10:04 PM
Worked like charm! Thanks, this was really annoying.

Gazoo01
March 20th, 2011, 03:53 PM
Thank you!! Such a simple solution for such a long standing problem.=D>

eflix
March 21st, 2011, 12:05 AM
tanks for the workaround. after the youtube/google deadly embrace, doubly infuriating. did a firefox (which i never use) update this am. makes debian look attractive.

Yeah Im feeling the same here my fellow, as things are not working as they supposed to in my ubuntu box lately (samba, mysql on amarok, flash plugin, and my windows xp entry on grub has vanished). But I'll stick around the forums and find a way. Thank you nshiell for the workaround!

muawwiz
March 22nd, 2011, 02:27 PM
Thanks a lot.

knattlhuber
March 26th, 2011, 05:31 AM
Thanks, that had been bugging me a lot lately.
On the other hand, the crashing plugin was a blessing because I wouldn't waste HOURS playing this: http://poppit.pogo.com/hd/PoppitHD.html
;)

faisalshah
October 27th, 2011, 01:28 PM
Hello,

This information is for windows but you can get some information to this post.


I got you this question I am sharing some useful information about this problem.



1. First of all you have to update your Google chrome web browser.
2. After updating the browser download the Registry Cleaner Software.
3. Disconnect the Internet connection from your computer.
4. Remove Adobe Flash Player to your PC.
5. Remove or Disable Plugin from Google Chrome web Browsers.
6. Start Scan for Active-X, Flash and Registry Errors.
7. Install again Flash.


If you need more information please visit this article you will get more useful information to this article,: http://ezinearticles.com/?Shockwave-Flash-Crash---Learn-Easy-Fix-For-Shockwave-Flash-Crash-in-Your-Internet-Browser&id=3994780

glenndrew
November 21st, 2011, 11:52 AM
Hello,
i have been looking for this. i also faced this problem many times but after reading this article i fixed it. Thanks for sharing this post. i also got some help from this article http://ezinearticles.com/?Chrome-Shockwave-Flash-Crash---Fix-Shockwave-Flash-Crash-in-Chrome-Browser-to-Smoothly-Play-Videos&id=4002309
, hope someone might get help from this article.

NMeyne
April 4th, 2012, 09:38 PM
Hi,

Sadly I can't seem to get this fix to work because firefox seems to have a similar problem - using Lubuntu. I have reinstalled all of Lubuntu and Chromium afresh, and installed Firefox to see if i could get the fix to work, but the flash seems to refuses to load in firefox (no errors - just unresponsive - so no chance to set / reset any switches). I have tried this on two different machines - both older athlon / sempron processors.

Help - looks like I will have to give up on this distro and Chromium - any suggestions of alternative lightweight free distros that might work?

Regards,

Nick

CTolley
April 21st, 2012, 05:34 AM
Worked for me as well. Many thanks

10.10 Maverick
32bit system
ASUS laptop

meduser
May 10th, 2012, 04:11 PM
After running an upgrade Chromium browser Shockwave Flash Plugin crashed!

If you have the same problem I have a workaround.


firstly open Firefox goto a website that uses flash (not YouTube) I used BBC iPlayer, then right click and click on "settings..."

The left most tab shows the "Enable hardware acceleration" tickbox
Untick it

Then close and reopen Chromium and go back to a flash site e.g. YouTube and test it is working.


The reason this worked for me is that there is a bug in either Googles Chromium or the Unix/X11 build of Shockwave Flash or my graphics card drivers

There seems to sevral bug reports regarding this on the net
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/716640

Flash could be a little slower now it doesn't have the hardware accelerating it. So maybe the setting could be re-enabled in the future?

When I try that, I get to the hardware acceleration tag, but the I can not unclick it....?

Kossilar
May 11th, 2012, 08:08 PM
When I try that, I get to the hardware acceleration tag, but the I can not unclick it....?


I'm having the same problem.

Blackhood
May 25th, 2012, 10:47 PM
After running an upgrade Chromium browser Shockwave Flash Plugin crashed!

If you have the same problem I have a workaround.


firstly open Firefox goto a website that uses flash (not YouTube) I used BBC iPlayer, then right click and click on "settings..."

The left most tab shows the "Enable hardware acceleration" tickbox
Untick it

Then close and reopen Chromium and go back to a flash site e.g. YouTube and test it is working.


The reason this worked for me is that there is a bug in either Googles Chromium or the Unix/X11 build of Shockwave Flash or my graphics card drivers

There seems to sevral bug reports regarding this on the net
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/716640

Flash could be a little slower now it doesn't have the hardware accelerating it. So maybe the setting could be re-enabled in the future?


Where am I supposed to right click? I keep getting the standard menu as if I just right click in a web page.