Shockwave Flash Crash -- The bane of my Internet existance.

[Armstead]

Saw an interesting article I wanted to read on here. Clicked the link. Suddenly..........LIMBO.

Shockwave Flash, that obnoxious little program from hell has struck again.

Browser stalled, froze...then unfroze for a second. Then refroze. Then unfroze for a second. Then froze again......Finally the browser just crashed. With a little pop-up stating "Shockwave Fash has stopped working..."

Happens all the time. Sites get temporarily or permanently hung up on Shockwave....And I can't even escape it because it can also hang up the whole computer until it has finished its little temper tantrum.

I usually use Firefox, but sometimes other browsers. And on my Ipad, it doesn't even try to open anything with Shockwave.

And this pesky little program is even more obnoxious because it periodically pops up a box that says "Would you like to update Flash?"

I do thinking maybe they've fixed it. No such luck.

Just wanted to get that off my chest.

[DontTreadOnMe]

1. Flash and Shockwave do not work on iPhone/iPads

Apple told Adobe to shove it.. many years ago. Because Adobe kept making Windows versions of Flash quicker than the comparable Mac version... but Steve Jobs used the excuse that is was a security weakness...

So when you run into a website on an iPad, and it crashes because of Shockwave... that's because the web designers wrote code that is ONLY good for PC devices... which would give the code an "F" grade as unacceptable.

HTML 5 allows users to do everything that Shockwave can give you... the main feature being able to embed video.

So it is NOT your iPad or Firefox... it's lazy code on the website. Send a message to the website telling them how many millions of people have iPads.

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2010/02/20/an-adobe-flash-developer-on-why-the-ipad-cant-use-flash/

[zappaman]

12. Thank you for that info.

Now I know why my ipad is crashing on some sites.

[Armstead]

14. Thanks

The Ipad limitation I understand.

The PC bugginess is also frustrating

[Zorra]

2. I use Firefox and have the same problem. I feel your pain. nt

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. me 3. nt

[kimbutgar]

4. I have been trying for months to get shockwave working.

I have an old computer with windows XP that I use Firefox as browser and it works but doesn't work with Vista. I also have an old laptop with Xp that also works. Shockwave sucks and I refuse to update my old XP computers now.

[hunter]

5. I won't install Flash on my personal computers.

If people don't want to show me their videos without dropping a huge payload of tracking cookies and other crap on me, too bad for them.

The only place it really bothers me is BBC news, which continues to insist on it.

Most youtube videos of the sort I want to see work fine.

[grasswire]

6. YES nt

[qazplm]

7. definitely annoying

and it also crosses over into other programs.

If I play Starcraft 2 long enough while having firefox open, eventually my sound gets messed up (either on the game or firefox or both) until I close the game, and I reset the sound, and I close and restart the flashplayer plugin.

[IDemo]

8. I don't know what Shockwave is or does

All I know is that Youtube has become all but useless because of Flash freezes (on Firefox 24.0). No browser crashes, though.

[MineralMan]

9. If it helps any, smart web designers are abandoning Flash and Shockwave

these days. About time.

[Armstead]

15. Not a Moment too soon

I'd happily give up some sexiness in a site, as long as it works

[MineralMan]

16. I rejected Flash from the beginning.

The web designer I work most with does the same. Our sites work for everyone, every time.

[Armstead]

17. I have a couple of websites of my own...I used to have a....

Simple non flash version and a tarted up flash one.

Eventually I realized that was silly and trashed the Flash version.

[laundry_queen]

10. I have the same issue

I use firefox, IE and Chrome. Chrome has the least amount of issues with it, but the other 2 are a pain. I, too, get the update box, so I update and....nothing happens. WTF? For now, whenever I have the issue, I just open up chrome and copy paste the link. I should just use chrome but I've used IE since it first came out and old habits die hard. It's getting horrible for blocking shit on so many sites that I have to always click the 'unblock' icon just to even see the effin' webpage, then it loads twice. Getting tired of loading every. single. website. I go to, twice. My fault, I should drop IE...need it for my school homework site though, it recommends IE and works best on it. ugh!

[Octafish]

11. Java has my number.

And what they do with it, I don't know.

[GoCubsGo]

13. A few things that might help...

First try clearing your cache. You can also increase the amount of your browser's web cache.

If that doesn't help, right click on your video. When the menu comes up, click on "Settings..." Click on the first square on the bottom with the screen on it. Uncheck the "Enable hardware acceleration" box. Then click on the folder with the green arrow at the bottom. Slide the bar all the way to your right. The close the window.

Google has an HTML5 player that overrides the Flash crap. Kind of a PITA to use, though.