flash on 10.6.2

HI,

You need to Uninstall the current Flash plug in before reinstalling a new copy.

Uninstall Flash

Install Flash

Quit any open applications/programs. Launch Disk Utility. (Applications/Utilities) Select MacintoshHD in the panel on the left, select the FirstAid tab. Click: Repair Disk Permissions. When it's finished from the Menu Bar, Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac. If you see a long list of "messages" in the permissions window, it's ok. That can be ignored. As long as you see, "Permissions Repair Complete" when it's finished... you're done. Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac.

This might come in handy after you reinstall Flash.

http://rentzsch.github.com/clicktoflash/







Carolyn 🙂

Carolyn,

I'm experiencing a similar problem, but unfortunately following your steps does not resolve it. Flash (10.0.32.18, currently the latest version) always causes the browser to hang; any browser, actually.

I've got the same. Using flash 10.0.32.18 it always hangs on flash sites/content. Flash based games really do a number on it. I ran into it first with 10.6.1 and Firefox 3.5.5, but it does the same thing with Safari and now 10.6.2, which I really hoped would fix it. I've uninstalled, reinstalled, repaired permissions and restarted a bunch of times, deleted all my caches- no luck. still hangs on flash content.

I was able to fix the issue by googling "macromedia flash player settings." It'll take you to the adobe website and you can modify the flash player settings for your browser there. Basically, I checked "deny" for everything and did not allow the flash player to store stuff on my drive. That seemed to get rid of the problem.

Same issue here and I can't seem to solve it, I'll let you know if I find anything.

Ok so another post fixed my issue, if you download the standalone combo update from Apple
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/macosx_updates/macosxv1062updatecomb o.html
Its seems to solve all problems once reinstalled.

Tried all of these proposed solutions, but Safari and Firefox still crash the minute a flash file starts to load. Macbook running 10.6.2 with latest Flash install suffers, while iMac that has not been upgraded is just fine. Just saying it could have something to do with Apple.

HI,

Try ClickToFlash available here.

http://rentzsch.github.com/clicktoflash/

From the Safari Menu Bar, click Safari / Empty Cache. When you are done with that...

from the Safari Menu Bar, click Safari / Reset Safari. Select the top 5 buttons and click Reset.

Mac OS: Web Browser Quits Unexpectedly or Stops Responding

Safari add-ons can cause performance issues or other situations

Try the 10.6.2 combo update.

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/macosx_updates/macosxv1062updatecomb o.html

Repair disk permissions.

Quit any open applications/programs. Launch Disk Utility. (Applications/Utilities) Select MacintoshHD in the panel on the left, select the FirstAid tab. Click: Repair Disk Permissions. When it's finished from the Menu Bar, Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac. If you see a long list of "messages" in the permissions window, it's ok. That can be ignored. As long as you see, "Permissions Repair Complete" when it's finished... you're done. Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac.







Carolyn 🙂

Excellent suggestion! I'm glad I saw your post.











Carolyn 🙂

Have gone through all the steps, including the combo installer, repairing permissions ... same problems.

Also: I cannot get the settings manager on the Adobe site to work. I can see all the tabs, but several of the checkboxes won't "check." And any settings I do change revert back to default immediately once I switch tabs or just go away and come back.

These issues occur in both Safari and Firefox, newest versions of each, and did not occur before the 10.6.2 update.

I had a similar problem, where after updating to 10.6.2 Safari and Firefox would both hang on some Flash ads. This page would crash it without fail, likely because of the ads:

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-beckham-galaxy13-2009nov13,0,6437553.story?p age=2

The solution, which someone found worked on another forum, is to reset your PRAM. To do this hold down Option + CMD + P + R when restarting so you hear the restart chime twice. Not sure why this solves the problem, but it does.

Tried the PRAM now ... still the same problems.

When I did my combo install I also uninstalled Flash and reinstalled, here is the flash uninstaller if you care.
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/141/tn_14157.html

Hope this helps.

There's a related thread on this in the general 10.6.2 forum. However, I've found a bug report at Adobe that suggests the connection to the upgrade may be coincidental; there are reports of this issue going back to last fall. It would help if people would register with Adobe's bug forum and vote for the problem, to spur them to work on a solution.

https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-2587

I did have luck solving this problem. I closed ALL apps then ran the uninstaller. I then rebooted, downloaded the latest flash from adobe and again closed all apps and installed it.

It worked for me. YMMV.