Questions tagged [flash-player]
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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Flash player in firefox doesn't update playback device without a refresh
In firefox, while a video (flash player) is playing, I cannot immediately change the playback device. After I set the new playback device, the video continues playing in the previous one, and a ...
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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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How can Firefox's per-site Flash permission be revoked again?
According to How to block Flash again after mistakenly choosing "Allow and Remember"?, If you ever need to revoke a permission for a site, you can use the Permissions panel of the Page Info dialog.
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can't click on Flash Local Storage Allow/Deny pop-up
On certain sites using Local Storage, a pop-up appears instead of the Flash-based application, with the following message:
Adobe Flash Player Settings
Local Storage
www.example.com is requesting ...
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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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How to change where flash caches video files?
When I watch videos on youtube or similar sites, flash saves the buffered video information to the disk. Unfortunately it saves it to drive c, which is very inconvenient for me. Is there any way for ...
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Flash Express Install not updating
I am trying to get my Flash Express Install script working on my computer, but it never opens up the pop-up to update. I want to be able to have my users to update their flash through express Install.
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Problems installing Adobe Flash player
I installed Windows 7 Ultimate (32 bit) and IE9 and Adobe Flash player (10.3.183.5 final for IE&AOL) but I can not watch video on YouTube and other sites.
Why?
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Anyway to get Flash player to stop showing me everyone else's errors?
I have to have the debugger version of Flash player installed because I develop Flash apps.
Because of this, a huge percentage of the sites I visit constantly displaying annoying error pop up ...
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Firefox: is there a way to fast switch between Flash-debug and regular Flash?
Is there a way to quickly switch between debug-enabled and non-debug versions of Flash player for Firefox?
It seems that I need to reinstall each version if I want to switch.
I am working under Mac ...
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How to separate web videos from Chrome?
What I want is to fill web videos to the full window without the tabs, address bar(even all the window decorations) so that I can see more area of videos when the window holds 1/4 of the screen.
Are ...
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Install and enable extension for all Windows users in Chrome
Similar to this question, except that I'm wanting a solution for all Windows users.
We have an NT4-style domain hosted by Samba, so we cannot use Group Policy to deploy the setting, as recommended by ...
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My microphone does not work with Flash Player in Mozzila while I have a bluetooth speaker plugged in
My operating system is an up to date Linux Mint Debian Edition 2. This is really just Debian Jessie with an additional repository.
I use Flash to broadcast myself. Flash registers my microphones. ...
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How to install system Flash player to Chrome?
My Chrome Flash plugin is constantly crushing and even if it's not crashing it's super slow to load. I have tried to solve the problem and it seem that disabling chrome "pepflashplayer" flash player ...
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Adobe Flash update breaks Opera Plugin due to file name change
I keep my Opera browser open for many days. But after some time the Adobe Flash PPAPI plugin stops working and only restarting the browser seemed to help. Killing the plugin in the Opera task ...
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Can't watch videos online - gets "loading the player " and nothing happens
I'm having a problem trying to see sports highlights. On chrome and safari, I get the message "loading the player..." while nothing happens.
I've tried to reinstall the flash player, chrome, and ...
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How to prevent HTML5 crashing to Adobe Flash?
After loading the video and letting the video remain paused for an hour or more, I unpause the video and then it crashes after a few seconds. It crashes as a HTML5 player and resorts to Adobe Flash ...
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Flash content not loading
I am trying to get this site to load the flash content:
http://kids.daum.net/study/do/studyflash/view?id=7
I have done everything in the following two links still with no luck:
http://helpx.adobe....
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Adobe Flash Player has only half sound
When recently watching a video on youtube, I noticed that the audio seemed quieter than it should be. This is because, for some reason, Windows has limited Flash Player to half of the system volume.
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How does a single Shockwave flash plugin process control all flash content in Chromium?
Is there a method to find which thread of flash is controlling which flash content?
My aim is to find per tab bandwidth statistics.
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How does Adobe Flash player make my computer unresponsive?
I have observed that most of the time when I watch some video, my computer becomes unresponsive for some time.
I have read that Adobe Flash Player might be the cause - in my case that seems so ...
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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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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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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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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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Flash player problems in Chrome on Linux Mint 12
I have pretty funny problem with flash player, I can view movies from youtube, but flash does not save my usage data and don't let me change prefferences. Problem occurs only if I install adblock and ...
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Some flash videos do not play
I'm on a Mac and use mainly Firefox 8, but the problem that I'll describe happens with Chrome and Safari as well.
Basically, I can play most Flash content, including ads, games and videos, but there ...
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Is it dangerous to use debug version Flash Player?
I installed debug version Flash Player on my computer to develope a Flash application.
I am using debug version Flash Player for debugging my application.
But I also use it while browsing other web ...
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Webpage located in an Apache IE but not with Chrome, and doesn't work in other PC
A friend developed a webpage which has some tables to show information. We run it on a native Apache on two PCs.
The first one has installed IE9 with Adobe Flash Player 10.3.181.26 and Chrome with ...
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Flash movie randomly freezes the browser
Just recently it seems that my flash player have had some troubles to display flash videos (youtube/dailymotions and others like this). This issue was supposed to be fixed with Flash Player 10 beta if ...
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Thin black bar appears on fullscreen Flash videos in Chrome
In Chrome, when I go fullscreen on YouTube videos I get a thin horizontal black line across all videos, about 2/3 of the way up the screen. It looks like this:
It isn't there when the video is ...
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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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Firefox high GPU usage
These graphs show the GPU usage patterns of the Flash Player plugin for Firefox and Chrome, respectively. The test involved playing a 30-second HD Facebook video.
As the graphs show, Firefox uses ...
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How can I make Flash Player work with Safari?
I have had Flash installed for sometime but it no longer works in Safari. At least not for me. Other accounts on this (shared) Mac can still use Flash in Safari. Furthermore, Flash still works for ...
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Is there anyway to clear my Flash Projector history?
Ever since Flash died, I have been using the flash projector provided by the Adobe people. The flash projector is very excellent, except for the fact that it makes it obvious what you have been using ...
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How can I switch the player Chrome is using to play flash games?
there are several flash players installed on my system (old version of adobe flash player, adobe flash debugger, new grounds flash player). When I go on a flash game site Chrome player chooses the ...
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How do I use Adobe Flash Player with more privacy?
For the past few months I have become more concerned with online privacy. That is because I became more aware of how much data is collected on internet users and how easily that data is obtained. I ...
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Adobe Flash plugin always crashes instantly
No matter what I do I can't seem to get Adobe Flash Player working in Firefox period. I get this error message saying that the Adobe Flash plugin has crashed and this happens instantly right when I ...
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Flash Player Already Installed
I'm using windows 10 and google chrome.
I have not installed flash player,so why in the control panel appear the flash icon ?
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Getting Pandora to load in Opera
I am using the current version of Opera (40). I have confirmed that the current version of Adobe Flash Player is installed (checked on opera://plugins - version 23). However, when I go to Pandora.com, ...
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In browsers videos start with black in them, once I reset the video they play as normal.
I've had this problem for a very long time. But I remember a day when it wasn't so.
Starts
After going back to the start of the video
I am using Chrome Version 53.0.2785.116 m (64-bit) on Windows ...
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stopping videos from website to play
Here is website from which a lot of videos are being streamed
http://www.jagran.com/spiritual/puja-path-the-veneration-of-saturn-in-the-household-wellbeing-remains-forever-14747757.html?src=fb
I don'...
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Can I force system-wide software rendering on Windows?
I have a laptop (hp elitebook 6930p) that has some kind of unspecified (probably overheating/faulty memory) problem that i think related to the graphics card that causes BSODs/crashes (often without ...
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Adobe Flash videos stop playing after a few seconds
From time to time, all Adobe Flash videos stop playing after a few seconds, on all websites and all browsers (at least Google Chrome, Opera, Firefox, and MSIE). Rebooting the computer solves the issue,...
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Flash player crashes in every browser
I have searched the whole web to fix this issue but not a single solution worked for me. I was using windows7 I have never faced such issue that might be some issue with windows10. I not sure.
No ...
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Prevent the adobe flash player for firefox to switch from HD to SP and vice versa
How can you prevent the adobe flash player to switch between High Definition quality and Standard Play quality and vice versa automatically? This is very annoying!
Does this have something to do ...
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Abode Flash Player 14 Active X "Failed to register" Error Windows 8.1
I am trying to install Flash player 14 ActiveX plug-in for Windows 7 in Windows 8.1.
You might say Windows 8. 1 already has it but I have a program which specifically needs the ActiveX plug-in for ...
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Sluggish Flash/HTML5 in Firefox 30.0
There are websites that have video playing back in the backround and removethebackground.com is one of those sites. This kind of effect slows browser's response almost to a crawl unless I switch to ...
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How to locate HP Windows 8.1 acceleration settings for Flash Player Settings if its not there?
Well basically, when I right click onto the video and click onto the settings. The Adobe Flash Player settings does not display the acceleration setting. I have update to the latest version (Windows 8....