Flash video player crashes OSX Lion

Use your brain, this issue was there in snow leopard? No. Who updated the software? Apple. So who didnt troubleshoot the basic stuffs? Apple.

I was having the same problem. Try disabling hardware acceleration...this seems to have resolved the problem for me. Right click on a flash video, choose settings, go to the left tab for display on the bottom, deselect "enable hardware acceleration" and then close the settings window. Close/open your browser and hopefully this will help until a permanent resolution gets worked out.

Most people seem to be suggesting this is a problem WHEN WAKING FROM SLEEP. But, i experience it even though my computer is set to Never Sleep.

And, yes, it's a problem only after i've upgraded to Lion.

I thought it was an issue with Yahoo Mail - just reached that 'conclusion' today. So, i avoided Yahoo, but the machine crashed anyway.... For me, it's nothing to do with clicking on a flash video. I'm not on youtube. It may have something to do with embedded video ADVERTISEMENTS within pages i incidentally visit. I'm not sure.

Either way, the whole relationship between Apple and Flash is seriously flawed. As devoted to Apple as i have been for the past 20 years, there's no way i can excuse this. Unfortunately for me, Apple, effectively, has a monopoly, since using a PC is NOT an option.

now its happening again to me last week. YAHOO MAIL is crashing with flash

now its a yahoo mail problem, an adobe problem, and an apple problem

apple *****....i bought a brand new imac to avoid this sht

I installed a Safari extension "ClickToFlash." Essentially, it prevents Flash content from loading automatically. On web pages where Flash is supposed to be present, you just get a gray box with the word "flash" in it. My computer hasn't crashed since i enabled it.

It's a pain to have to click the flash box and you also have no preview of what's there, but it's better than going through the rigamarole of having to restart every day and possibly losing a document/data.

I am using 2011 mac with lion, and my mac keeps on crashing while watching flash. I thought it had something to do with chrome 13 browser. It got updated to chrome 14 and still it is continuing.

I have externally now installed flash (Chrome comes with flash inbuilt) lets hope its stops crashing now.

iMacs are apparently not the only sufferer of this problem... I am running a mid-2007 Macbook and have never had a problem playing flash video, until I upgraded to Lion. It is also not only after I wake from sleep... I Never had a problem watching flash videos in Panther, Tiger, Leopard or Snow Leopard. But, as soon as I upgrade to Lion when I start watching a flash video on YouTube, for example, the audio will start to skip like a broken record and the video will freeze. All the while the entire computer starts locking up, If i barely move my mouse while this is happening it will shoot across the screen so it is impossible to hit the pause button or close button to end the madness. It wont always cause a complete crash but it does sometimes. The video will freeze, the audio skips like a broken record and suddenly the black opaque crash screen scrolls from the bottome of the screen telling my to hard reboot... 10.7.1 did not fix the problem.... Since the problem did not start until Lion, absolutely blame Apple. It is obiously something they have done/not done since Snow Leopard... I'm fed up and will downgrade Tomorrow once I borrow an externall HDD to copy all of my essentials and downloads... I've never said this before, but I will now; Apple, I am dissapointed in you.

One of the sources of trouble is corrupt fonts. I worked out a fairly easy process to identify which 17 of my 900+ fonts were causing the crash, see:

http://damnedfinesoftware.blogspot.com/2011/10/fsusage-when-adobe-flash-crashes- in.html

All of these fonts were validated by Apple Fontbook, but crashed during a system call from the Flash plugin into Apple font library code.

-- Sean

umm maybe instead of complaining about it, call apple support so it can be fixed for you... hmmm..... what do you think? any thoughts?

I'd like to see a filter for comments that have more than one "umm[m...]" or "hmm[m...]".

I'd like to see a filter for inane comments added to topics that have been inactive for two months.

A bt self-cancelling, that last comment.

Anyway, for me the topic is not dead, having just upgraded to Lion. That's why I'm looking through various forums that reference the problem.

I have OS X 10.7.2 (11C74) with Firefox 9.0.1 / Safary 5.1.2 and Adobe Flash 11.1.102.55 [All apps 64-bit].

After viewing several video from youtube or other sources mouse pointer disappearing. Then system begining to slow down considarably then start freazing. Killing flash plug-in for firefox/safary solve problem tempereraly.

Maybe some of us whose free support has expired don't feel like spending $200 so Apple will talk to us.

It's called poor Quality Assurance on Apple's part.