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Adobe Flash and Internet Explorer 8 Crashes
- Anyone else have a problem with Adobe Flash Player causing IE 8 to crash? The flash player is the newest version (Flash10c.ocx, version: 10.0.32.18). I was on vista 32bit an had this problem. Wiped the hard drive clean, installed windows 7 64bit and installed the latest flash player from adobe. It has caused it to crash 186 times in the last 6 days! I tried unistalling and reinstalling with no luck. I know I can turn it off, but I need it for the majority of websites. Thanks
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- This seems to be a big problem on the forums here. Adobe Flash Player has issues with all the web browsers. So far, I don't think anyone from Microsoft has even acknowledged the problem. I suffer from this same problem. It's the only annoying bug I have found in Windows 7 so far.
- I have two machines with Windows 7 ultimate. The 64 bit version of Windows 7 has the exact same issue. The 32bit version has been rock solid. I am starting to think that the Apple ad was not an exaggeration after all.
- Hate to say it I had to install Safari 4 in order to get falsh to work on my 64 bit system. I am also have issue with Quicktime using IE8 on the 64-bit Win 7 version
- 32 Bit IE8 works fine on Win 7 64 bit, as far as Flash goes. Adobe has NOT made a version of Flash for 64 bit yet. The balls in Adobes court, and they say they are working on it.
Kurt Flash is crashing like no tomorrow on my x64 system as well. Its probably Adobe's fault, they seem to suck at 64bit coding.
- Having the same problem, Flash crashes IE8 and Firefox on Win 7/64bit all programs/OS up to date. All I have to do is go to youtube to watch a video and I get "program not responding"
I have two machines with Windows 7 ultimate. The 64 bit version of Windows 7 has the exact same issue. The 32bit version has been rock solid. I am starting to think that the Apple ad was not an exaggeration after all.
Please tell me you are joking.
In case you weren't, I want to inform you that Adobe is responsible for Flash, not Microsoft. So... while Microsoft provides you with Windows 7, and with Internet Explorer, it is Adobe who is having issues with getting Flash working on Internet Explorer. You should be blaming them, not Microsoft, for your troubles.
Just because Apple has funny ads doesn't make them true.- I have the same problem. IE 8 crashes like crazy on my Win 7 Pro x64 but not on Win 7 HP x32. Even when I'm not on YouTube, there may be other stuff on websites that uses Flash Player. I am not sure if it's Adobe Flash (may well be) but it just crashes everything I close my browser at this point. I'm going FireFox for the time being. I like the recovery feature for IE8, but the frequency of crashes is just ridiculous at this point.
- I have the same problem. IE 8 crashes like crazy on my Win 7 Pro x64 but not on Win 7 HP x32. Even when I'm not on YouTube, there may be other stuff on websites that uses Flash Player. I am not sure if it's Adobe Flash (may well be) but it just crashes everything I close my browser at this point. I'm going FireFox for the time being. I like the recovery feature for IE8, but the frequency of crashes is just ridiculous at this point.
I have the same problem. IE 8 crashes like crazy on my Win 7 Pro x64 but not on Win 7 HP x32. Even when I'm not on YouTube, there may be other stuff on websites that uses Flash Player. I am not sure if it's Adobe Flash (may well be) but it just crashes everything I close my browser at this point. I'm going FireFox for the time being. I like the recovery feature for IE8, but the frequency of crashes is just ridiculous at this point.
I had the same problem, but I uninstalled IE8 and then reinstalled. I went from 6-10 IE8 crashes per session to 0 in the last 8 days. If someone can show me proof that it's Adobe's fault, then I'll jump on that bandwagon, but nobody has came up with proof of what is causing the problem and who is going to fix it, so I not going to jump in and say that it's anyones fault based on being a fanboy of Microsoft or Adobe. But it would be nice if someone from Microsoft were to say "We are looking in to it." as opposed to "If we ignore it, it will go away."- For those of you questioning whether its Adobe or Microsoft, take a look at the following knowledge base article from Adobe:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/000/6b3af6c9.html
From that article:
Adobe Flash Player is not supported for playback in a 64-bit browser. However, you can run Flash Player in a 32-bit browser running on a 64-bit operating system.
Translation:
Adobe Flash Player doesn't work on Internet Explorer 8 (64bit version only) but you can use Adobe Flash Player on Internet Explorer 8 (32 bit).
For those of you who are running Windows 7 (64 bit), you should have the option for both IE8 64 bit and IE8 32 bit. If you want Flash to work, run 32 bit!
If you don't know which version of Internet Explorer 8 you are running, simply check in Help - About Internet Explorer. For those of you questioning whether its Adobe or Microsoft, take a look at the following knowledge base article from Adobe:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/000/6b3af6c9.html
From that article:
Adobe Flash Player is not supported for playback in a 64-bit browser. However, you can run Flash Player in a 32-bit browser running on a 64-bit operating system.
Translation:
Adobe Flash Player doesn't work on Internet Explorer 8 (64bit version only) but you can use Adobe Flash Player on Internet Explorer 8 (32 bit).
For those of you who are running Windows 7 (64 bit), you should have the option for both IE8 64 bit and IE8 32 bit. If you want Flash to work, run 32 bit!
If you don't know which version of Internet Explorer 8 you are running, simply check in Help - About Internet Explorer.
I am running the 32 bit version under 64 bit Windows 7. This is a known problem. Other browser add-ons have the same problem, although they don't exibit the problems if you are running a 32 bit version of Windows 7. I currently have a call ticket with Samsung because their security camera software has the same problem. There must be some difference in the 32 bit version of IE8 that runs under 64 bit Windows as opposed to 32 bit Windows.- I am having frequent Internet Explorer 8 (32-bit) crashes on my Win 7 HP 64 bit. I have narrowed it down to Adobe Flash. IE8 (64-bit) doesn't crash on the same websites as it doesn't have a Flash addin.
This is very annoying. - I suggest you write to Adobe so they can begin working on a solution for some 32bit-64bit mixes. Adobe is a crash-prone major software company, and in my 20 years experience with them, they have never been able to keep up with technology and software upgrades, mainly because internal code design, which produces buggy results, slow response and high overhead. The day they bought neat little Flash, I wept. Now they and others trying to dead-end Java. And send a copy to your Senator, because the U.S. Government spending HUGE sums to convert millions of website applications from java apps to flash. Competition in the market place can only benefit the consumer.
- I have a new laptop with Windows 7 on it. Didn't have a problem with IE8 crashing on flash sites until an update was pushed out (Windows update) for KB976749.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e2121af9-92db-40e3-a848-f73564670f41&displaylang=en
I uninstalled this update and the crashing stopped. This was using IE8 32 bit running on a 64 bit OS (Windows 7) with 8 gigs of Ram, dual quad processor. - How do I uninstall this update? Is this through uninstall programs? Restore?
THanks
