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Safari Flash Player Plug in Crashing

Is anyone else having problems with Safari Crashing on Snow leopard. I was reading that Snow leopard downgraded the adobe flash player to version 10.0.23.1 from 10.0.32.18 well I upgraded due to security flaws in the downgraded build version. Now safari will constantly crashing after the flashplayer crashes anyone with this issue, any way of fixing this...I have disabled plugins but now no flash. Thanks

2008 15 Alum Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6)

Posted on Sep 3, 2009 2:35 PM

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Sep 3, 2009 7:12 PM in response to chris.panagop

It appears that flash-player is not compatible with SL 10.6 and at this point cannot be downloaded as a plug in. I am not having the crashing problem but in the TDAmeritrade trading program you cannot choose the buy sell options. I also cannot use the shortcut programs that TD offers for traders, I.E. streaming quotes , etc. The only other problem I have encountered is in Miro's RSS files I will lose some of the sound on a few videos, it will just be static like a radio station not tuned in. These problems are only in Safari. I can use FireFox and everything works fine, but FoxFire uses it own plug-ins. When Adobe get there act together and becomes compatible all will be fine. I hope.

Sep 4, 2009 6:25 AM in response to baltwo

Thanks for the response, but no joy, after installing what you suggested but I still have the same problem. I talked to Mac support for some time working up the ladder of supervisors and I have decided to use FireFox for a while and check back in about a month to see if they have come up with a resolution. Not a big deal for me after using a PC since the 80's and having to work around bugs for all those years.

Sep 4, 2009 7:11 AM in response to chris.panagop

The exact same thing happened to me. On the recommendation of various news articles, I manually upgraded the Flash Player plug-in from 10.0.23.1 to 10.0.32.18. Initially, I had no problems, but when I started viewing ESPN Flash-based videos, the entire browser would hang (this was true of Safari, Firefox, and Opera - all of which I tried and had the most updated version of). I then force quit and rebooted. After I rebooted, the problems disappeared for a while, but after some more browsing, I encountered the same problem with any page containing flash. I turned off the Flash plug-in in Firefox and I've had no problems so far. So I know for sure that it's a Flash problem.

I tried to uninstall Flash and downgrade, but I couldn't find any previous versions of the Flash player plug-in. I did find some experimental builds, but they still crashed all three browsers.

Flash is pretty miserable. If I didn't have to use it to watch ESPN videos, I would have no purpose in using Flash at all.

Sep 6, 2009 12:45 PM in response to baltwo

Hey baltwo, good news at least for me. Uninstalled, reinstalled and repaired permissions (again), but this time it looks like it succeeded. Just spent an hour on you tube w/no problems using either browser. This was the third try, didn't do anything different than the first two, except this one seems to work.

Sometimes it seems like these things have a mind of their own.

Sep 7, 2009 10:33 PM in response to chris.panagop

I am experiencing many of the same issues... here is my troubleshooting steps:

1.) Uninstalled Flash
2.) did a permissions verify
3.) Installed the latest Flash version (10.0.38.18)
4.) did a permissions verify (lots of issues with flash plug-in)
5.) still getting multiple browser crashes.
6.) Uninstalled Flash
7.) Found an older version of flash from Adobe.
8.) Uninstalled (10.0.38.18)
9.) Installed (10.0.22.87)
10.) did another permissions verify (lots of issues with flash plug-in)
11.) still have multiple browser crashes.

So, after a day of trying to get this sorted out, I am back to where I started and an older version of flash that even shipped with SL.

What is my next step?

EDIT: Upon further review, I see where a re-boot might be in order. And that solves my issue now. But I still have an older version of flash than even SL shipped with. I downloaded the archived flash versions from Adobe and 10.0.22.87 was the latest one outside of 10.0.32.18. I would still like to find a download link for 10.0.23.1

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Safari Flash Player Plug in Crashing

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