Flash Player Oddities

Posted by anthonyloprimo on June 27, 2010, 1:10 a.m.

So I'm on YouTube the other day and suddenly… ZOMBIES! THOUSANDS OF THEM!

…Well, no, no zombies.. But, it randomly acted weird, locking me out where I couldn't access anything until after the video was done, when it auto-closed on me and returned to the actual video page.

The next day I'm using it, and other oddities happen - random times it's not working right (not just this but any flash-based program) and then I get some "overlay" over the flash area saying that it supposedly crashed.

I then start watching videos on YT another time, and it does the same full screen lock oddity, only it crashes shortly after, making the screen blank for a while.

Then I use this handy and dandy tablet PC… only I start noticing it crashing.

I start noticing this on different browsers and other computers as well.

Did Adobe get smart and stick some anti-crash thing so when Flash crashes, it doesn't take the browser with it? Or is this some random new thing?

With these recent problems with using flash, I ALMOST agree with Steve Jobs and his choice on not including flash on the iPod/iPhone/iPad. …ALMOST.

Comments

NeutralReiddHotel 14 years, 4 months ago

Flash is just weird sometimes, to be honest I don't know what's going on with your flash.

Ferret 14 years, 4 months ago

What I find most odd about adobe is how every time I use acrobat reader it has to update. Why does it need to update so often? All it does is look at image versions of text.

Kaz 14 years, 4 months ago

Quote:
Did Adobe get smart and stick some anti-crash thing so when Flash crashes, it doesn't take the browser with it?
If you're using Chrome, only that tab goes down and not all of them.

SteveKB 14 years, 4 months ago

flash only crashes for me if i open a ton of vids in multiple tabs :P on my netbook. on my main comp it only does that if I ready up hd vids in many more tabs

Iluvfuz 14 years, 4 months ago

In fact, if you're using Chrome, you can just kill Flash and nothing will go down with it.

anthonyloprimo 14 years, 4 months ago

@ a few people

No, chrome's tabs haven't crashed since I installed it on one of the laptops (I know about that neat feature).

Also, on one laptop, I use firefox.

It's just that suddenly something appears over the flash area, saying it crashed. I was just wondering if anyone knows about that stuff.