Monday, January 16, 2012

Many or all Browsers Crash

In the race to win the software market, some vendors are going too fast that they are forgetting to do some quality checks on there products, this article is speaking of no small firm, it is about the Adobe and the product is the most used one “Flash Player”.

The issue is that, some sites, my case, youtube requested an upgrade of flash player from my current version 10 to new one 11 as a requirement to view videos and I have upgraded, after upgrading when ever a video is being played on IE, Firefox, chrome, in all three browsers get hang due to flash player alone only.  After through browsing figured it out that the new version is not working properly when Hardware Acceleration is enabled and the software by default is configured to use it, it would had at least been if it is disabled, also, on the adobe official forums the support is very very little from them, the solution is taken from a remote forum.

The solution is to disable the Hardware Acceleration from setting, settings option can be fond on right click menu on any flash player event like video on youtube, just right click on video to get the settings option:

Settings Option

Then Uncheck the hardware acceleration:

Hardware Acceleration

To check your installed flash version details click here.

Hope it helps.

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