Safari Flash Player Plug in Crashing

Note that the shipping version has major security issues. See http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2009/09/02/apple-ships-vulnerable-version-flash -snow-leopard/ for details. Strongly suggest updating to version 10.0.32.18.

I don't know, but 10.0.32.18 is running without issues on my machine.

I too have noticed problems with the newer version of the Flash plugin and I hope this is not threadjacking. I have particularly had problems with runaway processes (up to 107% CPU). Quitting Safari, which stopped the plugin did not reduce the fan speed. Sleep did, Restart (too quick?) did not, but then the fans come back bit by bit.

I ended up reluctantly trying the SMC reset and when restarting Safari with a blank page, the plugin showed in Activity monitor for a couple of minutes at 5 - 7% then went away. Thus far we have quiet fans. While accepting that some pages (I remember ESPN was a problem a while back) may not work properly, the bahviour was a bit unusual and I wonder if the new plugin has problems -- at least on certain machines -- with Snow Leopard.

If it comes back, I shall go for the uninstaller.

As that seems to have caused/not helped the problem for many many people, maybe a different solution would be better?

I am having problems with flash on my safari running snow leopard as well. eveything like youtube where just the player is involved work fine, but i everytime i use my isight within safari in a flash plugin, it will instantly cause Safari to become unresponsive and need to be force quitted. this happens with both Safari and firefox, and I am running the latest version of flash...

A different solution? It's worked here, so there's no incentive to seek an alternate one.

I have a different solution for flash issues. I was having trouble with espn flash particularly the gatorade ad on the right side kept causing the internet to fail. I tried all sorts of things to no avail. Yet I was thinking about reinstalling Snow Leopard when I saw something called optional installations. I clicked on it and one was quicktime 7 to be used with older applications. I decided to download it and sure enough ESPN and all flash programs work flawlessly. No more crashes or anything. Makes me think this shouldnt be optional. LOL.

Well it's easy to see why safari and flash player are giving us so many head aches.

Safari 4 is not suppored by Flash player, you need safari 5.

Look at the system requirements:

"Mac OS X v10.6 Firefox 3.x or later, Safari 5.x or later"

http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/systemreqs/

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Wonderful. Thanks for the link there, pier25. How in touch with Apple is Adobe these days? I have a screen shot and will be using that.

Interesting, considering my research on this thus far has proven that 'several' people have in fact complained of this problem over the year span and yet, it is still not fixed. Sigh. I am getting no luck from anything here to fix my flash issue. Guess I will browse from my windows pc until this is resolved. Bummer.

If your internal hard drive is still named Macintosh HD, change it to anything else. After many calls to applecare, this actually fixed the problem. Makes no sense why, but it worked for me.

CONFIRMED! This works, just got off the phone with applecare and was instructed to to the same thing.

Yeah, I can confirm that changing the hard drive name worked for me too, I really did not expect that work but before I could not even open up safari and now magically safari works better than ever.

Download latest Flash player; reinstall Flash player, restart your Mac and the issue is solved...