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Resolved Question

Why does Adobe Flash Player make everything pixelated?

Jun 24, 2012 11:49AM PDT

It happens on google chrome and on mozilla, even the manus that pop up when you right click come out pixelated.

What should I do?

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Two possibilities
Jun 24, 2012 9:15PM PDT

First try this. Disable hardware acceleration from within any Flash video window. Right click the video area, select "Settings", then remove the tick for "Enable hardware acceleration". Just once will change it for all browsers.

If that doesn't work, uninstall Flash using Adobe's own Flash uninstaller, reboot the computer, then revisit Adobe's web site to reinstall Flash.

Here is Adobe's Flash uninstaller - http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/uninstall-flash-player-windows.html

You don't say if this computer is Mac, Linux, or Windows. The options above are for Windows and may be different for other OSes.

Mark

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I am using windows 7.
Jun 25, 2012 3:07PM PDT

Disabling acceleration doesn't help. I uninstalled but it does not work for google chrome. I believe it helped with explorer but I mainly use google chrome

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Sounds like
Jun 25, 2012 9:46PM PDT

a Chrome problem then.

The workaround is to use another browser until Chrome gets this fixed, (if it is a problem with Chrome), and see what others are saying in the Google forums.

Mark

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(NT) So I have nothing to do aside from waiting for a bug fix?
Jun 25, 2012 11:50PM PDT
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You could use another browser.
Jun 26, 2012 3:09AM PDT

But I see that was mentioned.

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I only referred to chrome
Jun 26, 2012 9:05AM PDT

There is nothing I can do about it?

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Chrome and Flash
Jun 26, 2012 8:10PM PDT

The problem is that Flash is not an accessible add-on in Chrome as it is in other browsers. No add-ons and plugins are because Chrome "sandboxes" them to help protect against malware attacks on the OS.

Flash is built in to Chrome and is not an add-on and because of that we cannot offer any solution like, disable and remove the Flash add-on, reinstall it.

So if the problem is caused by Flash in Chrome specifically, there is nothing we can do. That's why I suggested looking through Google's own forums to see if others had reported this, and if so, what workarounds had been offered.

Sorry.

Mark

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(NT) Okay thanks, I will go check
Jun 26, 2012 8:54PM PDT
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I have to ask
Jun 27, 2012 3:13AM PDT