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    Flash in Windows

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by DetlevCM, Nov 3, 2008.

  1. DetlevCM

    DetlevCM Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    I originally posted in here to ask for help with s little "Flash problem" - I seem to have stumbled across the reason, and solution.

    My problem was:
    Explorer would crash when opening a folder with Flash videos.
    Suggestion in this forum:
    Disable thumbnails - this does solve the problem - but isn't ideal.
    ffdshow did not help by the way.
    Neither die Gspot when looking for faulty codecs...

    Next problem - that got worse:
    BBC iplayer in Firefox would crash Firefox...
    Thus I turned to Internet Explorer... (worked)

    At this time I was using Adobe Flash 9.0.124 (9 something) - and this seems to have been the culprit.

    If anybody has problems with Flash running Flash player 9 I suggest he/she upgrades to Flash 10 or downgrades to version 8 or older (not necessarily a good idea though) as there seems to have been/be a bug in Flash player 9.
    (Flash: iplayer, Youtube, BBC news site)
     
    DetlevCM, Nov 3, 2008
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