![]() I deleted the Adobe Flash player, restarted the computer then went to a music video on youtube. It pulls up a hefty list of “stuff” on the computer. Roaming the internet, I must have tried everything suggested at least once and nothing worked.įinally, I downloaded the free wise program uninstaller. I am really frustrated with both AOL.com and Chrome right now.įolks, I’ve had the same frustrating problem with Firefox - the shockwave crash popup and the computer freezing. So I again must use Safari to print from the NYT because the “box” is not covering up several sentences on the doc I print. Just like when you use Chrome to PRINT anything on the NYTIMES website, the printer-friendly view incorporates a box of “an upcoming and related article you might wish to read”-which covers about a square inch of 3 or 4 sentences at the right side of the printer-friendly document, once you print it. Since I have no problem using Safari to access AOL.com, it seems to me that it is only a Chrome issue affecting ONLY AOL.com’s website. And then I am getting another error message asking if I wish to continue or kill the loading page. Meanwhile, I am prevented from accessing any other sites via a Tab while the AOL.com site (via Chrome’s browser) is spinning. I have noticed only for the past two days and ONLY using AOL.com, I am getting the plugin not working or shockwave not working. Where do I find this: Chrome’s AppData folder.  Hopefully, this will fix the issue for the vast majority of users. This may not fix every Shockwave Flash problem, and some of you may find only one version installed.  You will need to restart the browser for the change to take effect.  Now, disable Chrome’s internal Flash installation which is located in Chrome’s AppData folder. If you find multiple versions of the plugin installed then click the "+" toggle to expand the entries for the plugin.  If you notice multiple versions then this is causing your problems.  Scroll down to find the Flash plugin and pay attention to if there is more than one version installed.  Type "chrome:plugins" to open a page that will display all of the installed plugins. ![]() To get started, open Chrome and click in the address bar. There you may disable Flash altogether, change its default status, or whitelist or blacklist it. You can manage Flash functionality by loading chrome://settings/content in the browser and selecting Flash from the listing. The chrome://plugins page is no longer available and the method described below does not work anymore because of it and because Google added Flash to Chrome internally. Update: Google changed how plugins are managed in the Chrome browser.  It may not solve all of Adobe's woes, but it should at least stop the plugin crash that ruins so many browsing experiences.  It's annoying and slows the browser to a crawl.įortunately, there is a fix for this common problem that is fairly simple for even a beginner user to handle.  This can also be followed by a popup from Chrome asking if you want to close "unresponsive tabs". Generally speaking, what users experience is the following: a web page or tab freezes in Chrome and that is followed by a message under the menu bar stating that "Shockwave Flash has crashed".  This isn't a security hole, but simply a problem with the extension crashing and causing Chrome to have problems of unresponsiveness.  The software maker has dealt with numerous security issues with Flash, Reader and their other apps. It's likely not a Google problem, but an Adobe one.
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