Shockwave Player Error msg

I regularly reset Safari and just today I clicked the "remove all website data" box and get the same popup as you do. When I do a reset without this box selected it works fine. (I forced a quit when it appeared because I wasn't viewing any movies).

I had this problem with Snow Leopard. As the messages disappered after I deactiveted the Shockwave Director plugin, it looks like there is actually something trying to run that plugin when you enter the Security Pane or reset Safari!

The Flash plugin on the system was up to date but the Shockwave plugin turned out to be outadated and thus contained the security holes fixed in the latest updates from adobe.

Thus I suspect a virus to be the cause of this behaviour.

Hi

Have you try installing the latest Shockwave Player from Adobe?

Cheers

i met the same problem.i uninstall my shockwave and install shockwave player 10,it doesn't work.then i reinstall my flash player by this pagehttp://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/alternates/#sp ,it dosen't work too.but the frequence that pop up cames seems to be low now.but when i go to safari-prefence-privacy,it came up as usual.

chen275 wrote:

i met the same problem.i uninstall my shockwave and install shockwave player 10,it doesn't work.

Shockwave 10 is very old. For Lion you should have Shockwave 11.6.1.629 from http://get.adobe.com/shockwave/.

OK I was able to reproduce the issue with a fresh installation of Snow Leopard and and Shockwave Player 11, 32 bit Version.

After applying the Apple system updates and installing the shockwave plugin I had Safari 5.0 with no Shockwave error dialogs - except when visiting the Shockwave Player Test page at http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/, understandably. But after closing the dialog Safari was locked and I had to force close it.

The Mac OS X System Update utility then showed additional updates for Safari (Version 5.1) and Java.

After updating to Safari 5.1 I get these boxes when I go to the Privacy Pane or reset Safari.

I presume this is related to this issue from the Safari update features list

Better Privacy: A new Privacy pane in Safari preferences makes it easy to remove data that websites can leave on your system

Looks like Safari is trying to acces data stored within the shockwave plugin.

This fixed the problem for me:

- Download and install the newest version of Shockwave here http://get.adobe.com/shockwave/.

(Notice the .dmg fil says "Full 64 bit".) Since Safari and Lion now launch on 64 bit by default, the error saying to launch in 32-bit mode made sense.)

- Quit Safari and relaunch.

- No problems with the 64 bit version of Shockwave.

Running 10.7 and Safari 5.1

Worked perfectly. No error messages at all.

Thank you! 🙂

thank you for your help.. this finally solved the issue!! 🙂

I downloaded the 64bit version but still get this msg when I view a video, say in Marsedit:

Clicking on settings just dismisses the alert

BTW, Lion 10.7.3

My solution also, thank you!

Since installing Mountain Lion, I'm getting this Shockwave Error message. First of all, I don't even know what Adobe Shockwave does. Second, is there any reason not to install it on my MacBook Pro. I already have Flash Player. Is this totally different? Will it screw up my computer in any way?

JazzmanJohn wrote:

I don't even know what Adobe Shockwave does.

It plays media produced by Adobe Director which you can always read about here.

is there any reason not to install it on my MacBook Pro.

None that I can think of. I've had it installed for probably twenty years.

I already have Flash Player. Is this totally different?

Yes.

Will it screw up my computer in any way?

Could slow things down while you are playing something, but you probably won't have anything else going on while you are watching something.