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Flash Player causes Firefox to crash

by varner Dec 20, 2010 1:23PM PST

I seem to have had this problem before several month ago. Well I updated to a new version of Firefox (3.6.13) and I have Flash 10.1 installed (MacOS 10.6.5). Every time I open any web site with Flash content, Firefox crashes. This happens with Yahoo Mail, CNN, New York Times, etc. So I disabled Flash temporarily, and my Yahoo Mail no longer crashed. Of course I can't watch any online videos now....

I tried uninstalling Flash 10.1 and re-installing it. No go. I tried the beta 10.2... still crashed. Finally I found a version of Flash 9 for Mac on Adobe's web site, and that does indeed work. Of course it's an older version, but at least I can use Firefox. The bad news is that the plugin is used by Safari also.

Any ideas?

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I use ClicktoFlash

by mrmacfixit Forum moderator Dec 20, 2010 9:48PM PST

which turns off FLASH unless I decide to use it.
Pages with Flash content display an empty box with the word Flash inside.

I can choose to load the content or not.

You'd be surprised how it improves the surfing experience.

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