I expect Chrome to do so as well. Did you try the usual disable flash hardware acceleration?
Bob
I'm running Chrome v.23.0.1271.97m on Windows 7.
Shockwave crashes happen many times each day, which really slows things down.
I gave up on Firefox and IE because I found Chrome to be faster, but I'm not sure that's true if I have enough crashes on Chrome that I have to wait for.
Any new ideas on Shockwave? I don't want to uninstall it because it's required on a lot of websites that I frequent.

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