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Weird Firefox issue w/ Flash
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Oct 22, 2006, 07:03 AM
 
Hi,

I was just wondering if anyone else experienced this issue with Firefox (I'm running 2.0 RC3 on a 2GHz Core Duo iMac)...

Pretty much whenever I right click on a flash thing embedded on a webpage (such as a flash game, youtube video, google video, etc) the movie/game/whatever will stop playing entirely and any movie controls will become unresponsive. After a few seconds, Firefox itself will crash. I've tested this in Safari and it doesn't happen there so I'm assuming it's a Firefox thing vs a Flash thing.

Anyone else ever have this happen? Is there any way to fix this? It usually happens at the most inopportune times too, like 3/4 of the way though a movie clip I'm watching I'll accidentally right click somewhere in the frame and poof, there goes Firefox
     
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Oct 22, 2006, 12:22 PM
 
Have you tried trashing your Flash Player preferences (~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player)?

Also make sure you have the latest Intel build of Flash : Direct Link (http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get...osx_ub.dmg.zip)

I'm running the same version of Firefox on the same iMac without problems.
iMac, Intel Core-Duo 2GHz, 2GB, 250GB, OS X 10.4
PowerBook 12", 867MHz, 640MB, 60GB, OS X 10.4
iMac G3, 333MHz, 288MB, 6GB, OS X 10.3
iPods: 3G iPod, 1G mini, 1G shuffle, 2G nano
     
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Oct 22, 2006, 03:57 PM
 
Originally Posted by nbnz View Post
Have you tried trashing your Flash Player preferences (~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player)?

Also make sure you have the latest Intel build of Flash : Direct Link (http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get...osx_ub.dmg.zip)

I'm running the same version of Firefox on the same iMac without problems.
Thanks for the suggestions. I just did all that but the issue remains. I guess I'll just have to live with it and be extra careful when right clicking around embedded flash stuff on a page.
     
   
 
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