Shockwave Flash Has Crashed

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Quite often when I'm watching YouTube and skip to another part of the video, it goes black and then a popup at the top of the browser says that Shockwave Flash has crashed. I'm using Chrome.

Does anyone else experience this issue? It's really annoying.
 
Pooky said:
Quite often when I'm watching YouTube and skip to another part of the video, it goes black and then a popup at the top of the browser says that Shockwave Flash has crashed. I'm using Chrome.

Does anyone else experience this issue? It's really annoying.
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Same problem here.
 
Okay so it's not my computer being screwy. I sent feedback to YouTube about it a week ago I hope they are working to resolve it.
 
Chrome has it's own built in flash player, so it is in conflict with the Adobe one. Type "about:plugins" or :plugins in the search bar at the top, look for the flashplayers, disable the Chrome one. Update the Adobe one, and you should be fine.
 
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Gerhardva said:
Chrome has it's own built in flash player, so it is in conflict with the Adobe one. Type :aboutplugins or :plugins in the search bar at the top, look for the flashplayers, disable the Chrome one. Update the Adobe one, and you should be fine.
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I checked there but only the Adobe one is listed.
 
Check again, it MUST show the Chrome one. If it doesnt, re-install Chrome.

It will be under Adobe Flashplayer
 
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This is an old issue that I am yet to see a proper solution for. I have seen guys do extreme things to get rid of this issue. It only happens to Chrome users on Windows 7. In some cases (like mine) it causes BSOD. I am still not sure what the hell I did, but I haven't had it happen in a month now. It was happening 5 or 6 times a day. One of the last things I did was reinstall drivers and there was some registry fix/edit I made...
 
Datura said:
This is an old issue that I am yet to see a proper solution for. I have seen guys do extreme things to get rid of this issue. It only happens to Chrome users on Windows 7. In some cases (like mine) it causes BSOD. I am still not sure what the hell I did, but I haven't had it happen in a month now. It was happening 5 or 6 times a day. One of the last things I did was reinstall drivers and there was some registry fix/edit I made...
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BSOD makes me think it's the GPU hardware acceleration causing it (the fact that you fixed it by reinstalling drivers reinforces this idea)

Maybe look here for some hidden settings that can be switched on/off: chrome://flags/
 
I still get flash crasing regularly in youtube on chrone especially on inconsistent speed network.
 
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