Adobe Flash Player is a plug-in for web browsers that enables viewing multimedia and interactive content created on the Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash) platform. It is one of the most popular and ubiquitous pieces of software, estimated to be installed on over 90% of personal computers.
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How to program my Mac to start Safari with debugger/release Flash Player?
I am a Flash Player developer, and have to debug my applications in Safari browser (not just standalone), for which I install and run the debugger version of Flash Player, as opposed to the usual ...
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Adobe Flash Player Update Service is useless — it doesn't actually Auto-Update Flash Player…until a month later [closed]
Real Questions
Specifically, my questions are...
Why doesn't the Flash Player Update Service auto-update, in a timely fashion? (as in, within a week {or hour} of a new ...
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How does Flash updater know there is an update?
Sometimes when I startup Windows and I'm not connected to the internet, I unexpectedly get a popup from Adobe Flash's auto updater, asking me if I want to download the new update.
How does it know ...
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Why would (some) flash videos show snow while playing?
Whenever I play Youtube videos and some other flash videos, I get a snow effect in Chrome. Like in the following cutout of a screencap shows.
As it plays, the snow jumps/jitters around, kind of ...
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Flash Player crashes in any Firefox-Flash Player-Combination
I´m trying to fix a problem with the flash player. I installed following Versions in combination with each another:
Firefox 19.0
Firefox 20.0
Firefox 21.0 (beta)
Firefox 23.0 (nightly)
with flash ...
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Flash Player goes blank in chrome for a while
Chrome Version (type about:Version 25.0.1364.172 m):
Operating System (Windows 7):
Extensions (type Chrome:Google Dictionary, Google URL Shorner, Google Beat the Boot, Readability, Reddit Enhancement ...
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Location of streaming video cache in *nix chrome flash plugin?
Having ubuntu 12.10 on SSD and using Google Chrome, wanted to lower I/O by putting caches of all kind into RAM. I already put all standard things like /tmp, /var/lock and ~/.cache/, but iotop tells me ...
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How to remove pre-installed Flash Player in Windows 8?
Windows 8 comes with Flash Player pre-installed. How do I remove it? It does not appear in "Programs and Features".
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Extracting Flash elements/games from websites
I would like to know if it possible to download or extract the flash game binaries from the browser, for example, games such as the ones on kongreagate.com or luminosity (not sure weather these are in ...
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Firefox 16.02 won't play Youtube HTML5 video - I did a clean install of Firefox
I get the error message on the youtube video screen: "Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats available. Click here to view our FAQ about HTML5 video.
The FAQ page says ...
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How to change the UI language in the Flash player Global Security Settings panel
I am a software developer and I want to make screenshots of specific settings in the Global Security Settings panel of the Flash player in Firefox.
I have a German locale Windows installation ...
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Adobe Flash Player is Installed But It can not be found by other applications
I have installed adobe flash player active X, but none of applications can detect it. for example if an application needs flash player it will show an error that it is not installed, sometimes ago ...
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How come I can't access Youtube videos on Chrome in Ubuntu?
When I try to watch Youtube videos in Google Chrome on Ubuntu Quantal Quetzal, I get the following "Couldn't load plugin." message.
I tried to go to "Wrench" -> Tools -> Task Manager in Google ...
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Adobe Flash Player 11.5 installation error
I am unable to find out what is wrong with my Adobe Flash Player 11.5 installation. It always stops and says:
The installation encountered errors:
A required file (:3) could not be installed.
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Package Chrome Portable with NPAPI Flash plugin instead of PPAPI
Is it possible to include the NPAPI Flash plugin somehow to Chrome Portable so that it will be used instead of the build-in PPAPI plugin?
The PPAPI isn't compatible with Adobe Connect's Add-In and ...
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Why can't I update Adobe Flash and remove Adobe Air?
My computer came with Adobe Flash and Reader installed on it. I was trying to view a video one day that said I needed Adobe Air to view so I started the download and viewed the video. Later on Adobe ...
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Where can I download the Flash Player standalone installer
The standard process of downloading and installing Adobe Flash involves downloading a small installer, that will itself download the full Flash version adequate to your system, and perform the ...
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Check if a video stream is a silverlight stream?
How can I check whether a video is completely streamed by silverlight or only the menu is silverlight and the video is flash? Support of http://lovelfilm.de (http://lovefilm.co.uk should be the same) ...
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Adobe Flash 11.5 r502 “Stops Working” in Firefox
I would consider myself to be quite technical and I haven't had an issue with Windows in a long time, but recently, Firefox started to show that "Stopped Working" dialog each time I closed it, so I ...
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How to only allow a custom subset of plugins in Firefox?
I keep the Firefox setting plugin.scan.plid.all set to false, since too many programs automatically add their own invasive Firefox plugins to the Windows registry whenever they are installed and/or ...
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flash player error on specific network?
I have a customer that insists that when he tries to watch videos online, he gets a flash player error that says the flash player needs to be installed.
It prevents the videos from playing and he's ...
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Converting correctly a .mov to .swf
I have a .mov (h264/AAC) and I want a .swf file with loop.
My ffmpeg line:
ffmpeg -i in.mov -acodec mp3 -ar 22050 -s 600x338 -vcodec flv -r 25 -f swf -qscale 0 -f out3.swf
The video part is ...
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Changing Flash player of Firefox cache
I want to relocate the Flash player plugin of Firefox cache so that it saves my C: drive space when I watch youtube videos. I successfully changed the firefox cache by opening about:config and then ...
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Can't disable hardware acceleration in Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.251 on Ubuntu
With the new release of Flash Player for Ubuntu I'm not even able to disable hardware acceleration to avoid that frustrating channel management that overlays a sort of blue pattern on each video.
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Why are there two types of Adobe Flash Player download / update?
Adobe Flash Player checks for updates at startup. If updates are required the Adobe dialog pops up with a [Download] button.
Usually when I hit the [Download] button it downloads the update straight ...
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Where is mms.cfg (Flash Player configuration file) located in Windows 8?
Where is mms.cfg, the Flash Player configuration file, located in Windows 8? I know in Windows 7 it is located at C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\mms.cfg. But I can't seem to find it in Windows 8.
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Automatic Flash updates don't work
Normally when Flash updates are available, the updater opens after system boot, and it's a small wizard where you can just click "install", accept an agreement, and everything happens automatically.
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Mac, kernel panic using firefox. MBA 11.6 late 2010 model?
I don't currently have the mac with me. It's at the shop for service. But the tech isn't able to find anything wrong it so far. She thinks it's a software problem. Can anyone check crash report I ...
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Local Flash in Chrome pepper player won't link to internet
I have a local .swf file in a local .html file. The flash file opens a popup window when a link is clicked. In Chrome, when I open the html file and click the button, nothing happens. Then when I go ...
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Freezing of computer while watching flash videos (contd) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Computer freezing while watching Flash videos from net
I have asked this similar question Computer freezing while watching Flash videos from net two week before. As i ...
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Is the standalone Adobe Flash Player still necessary?
I noticed that Internet Explorer 10 also has Adobe Flash Player built-in (like Google Chrome). So my question is, whether the standalone Flash Player (downloadable at Adobe’s site) is necessary ...
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Why do Flash games freeze when I use Google Chrome?
When I play Facebook Flash games with Chrome then they tend to freeze, but when I use Firefox then they don't! Can anyone give me some pointers on how to go about resolving the problem?
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Hearing repeated sound in Linux mint Chrome Browser
I am using Linux mint OS since an Year , I use to consistently download updates and install , I use chrome as a default browser , when ever I open youtube and watch some video , I listen to some ...
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How can I prevent Google Chrome update from re-enabling integrated Flash plugin?
I frequently debug Flex applications in Google Chrome and use a debug version of Flash Player to get the job done. However, for some time now, Google Chrome has deployed an integrated version of ...
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Flash player, HD videos and games are choppy
I have a problem with flash player. HD videos from Youtube or Vimeo and flash games do not play smoothly. I'm using Flash player 11, Windows 7 Sp1, and my graphic card is Intel GMA 4500.
Device ...
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Why is Flash Player so slow? [closed]
I have a problem with flash player; HD videos from Youtube or Vimeo or flash games do not play smoothly. I'm using Flash player 11, Windows 7 Sp1, and my graphic card is Intel GMA 4500.
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H.264 profiles support of latest Flash Player (v11.6)
Does anyone know what profiles of H.264 videos latest Flash Player(currently 11.6) supports?
Half an hour googling only gives an article from Adobe exactly about my question, which is old, and a page ...
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How can I make Chrome work with OSS?
I had to install OSS on my new Arch system because ALSA didn't work (I tried disabling snd_intel8x0m). Flash in Firefox produces sound, but Chrome's Flash doesn't work. libflashsupport-oss is ...
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Youtube video with flash player freezing
I have a fresh install on Windows XP, Firefox, and Flash player. I have installed all possible Windows XP SP3 updates.
Every time I watch a video on youtube, it plays for 1 minute, and then stops. no ...
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Weird future Adobe Flash Player version
Are beta versions not marked? I don't remember installing a beta. Pic taken today (same as days ago):
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How to control Adobe Flash Player in Internet Explorer with keyboard shortcuts?
I'm using Internet Explorer 9.0.8112.16421 with Adobe Flash Player 11.3.300.270.
Recently I'm listening a lot to music from YouTube (mostly due to exploring new "territories"). But there is one thing ...
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Flash Player Audio Channels
The problem came with the latest update (11.3.300), now whenever I'm watching YouTube or another website that uses flash it's sending audio out of all my speakers. I have 5.1 surround sound, before it ...
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What's causing Adobe Flash Player Update Service to fault? [closed]
I have a user that started receiving the following error message pulling it from the event log:
Faulting application FlashPlayerUpdateService.exe, version
11.3.300.265, faulting module ...
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procfs and youtube flash video
Up until recently (about 3 months ago), ALL open flash videos had deleted file handles in the procfs virtual folder for the flash plugin, I could see them thus:
ps x|grep flash
cd /proc/#PROCESS#/fd
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I don't want Flash, how do I make IE stop asking about installing it?
I don't have Flash installed, so on many web pages I get a dialogue which says something like "this website wants to install the following add-on: Adobe Flash Player".
Can I set this dialogue to ...
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Firefox unable to play sound?
after running Netflix for the first time I am unable to listen to two of my favorite stations: http://www.wgst.com and http://www.cpr.org – although Internet Explorer has no problem playing either of ...
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Which version of Flash Player for Mac, is packed without hardware acceleration?
I am currently experiencing issues with flash player plugin in all my web browsers (safari, chrome, firefox)
and, NO, disabling it with the enable acceleration option, doesn't work, it's kind of ...
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Where to download Flash Player newest version for offline installation?
I can't find Flash Player download link which will give me the full EXE/MSI file, not the tiny downloader which downloads data from the internet.
What's the proper download site for this?
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Why are the YouTube player buttons misplaced? [closed]
When I watch a YouTube video I get sound and picture, so there's no problem there. But the player buttons under the video are all pushed to to the left corner of the player window and sort of stacked ...
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Flash videos not playing on Mac OS X Lion
I'm unable to play any of online videos (e.g. YouTube) on Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3.
I tried the following:
Searched on the internet googling, and tried most what was suggested in forums, but nothing ...
