Saturday, March 10, 2012

Fix Shockwave Flash Crashes in Google Chrome


As one of the most elegant browser Google Chrome provides an inbuilt Flash Player and that is none other than Adobe is distributing as a partner of Google. Also we use other browsers like Opera, Mozilla Firefox, UC Browser, Netscape etc. which are using Flash Player. But the problem is the crashes caused by the Flash Player.The reason behind being crashed by the Flash Player is due to confusion of utilization of  Flash Players means whether to use System Flash/OS Flash installed or the pre installed inbuilt Flash Player. And Google Chrome is suffering the most with the Shockwave crashes than any other browsers. The only way to get rid of it is to stop either one of them as it is not going to use both at the same time. So it's better to disable the inbuilt one.


The result is serious browser lag, temporary lockup, and then a browser-wide crash of all active Flash instances. You don’t realize how many web sites use Flash until every single tab locks up with a crash warning : "The following plug-in has crashed: Shockwave Flash”
  • Open Google Chrome
  • Type about:plugins in the address bar
  • There will be a list of plugins installed in your browser, Look down for the Flash entry
  • In the upper right hand corner of the browser window there is a small toggle labeled [+] Details
  • Now click over there & return to the entry for Flash
  • Now you will find two entries for Flash, one for the internal Chrome installation and one for the host OS’s installation
  • Here you need to click the Disable link for Chrome's internal installation of Flash
  • Now close the tab and then close Google Chrome.
  • Restart Chrome and resume as previous browsing
  • Visit Adobe’s test page for accomplish.
Follow the below screen-shots :









1 comment:

  1. "Now you will find two entries for Flash, one for the internal Chrome installation and one for the host OS’s installation"

    I find three entries, none of which say anything about internal or host OS.

    Version: 11.1.31.203 is disabled
    Version: 11,1,102,63 is enabled
    Version: 10,2,153,1 is enabled

    Any suggestions?

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