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Hello, dear readers of the blog site. Probably not very many of you know what flash technology actually is, and also what why is it needed Adobe Flash Player.

But when your browser stops showing videos or games, does not play audio, and the menus of some sites do not react to your actions in any way, then you start looking for the reason (or).

Most likely, you will quickly be enlightened that perhaps that same mysterious Flash Player is outdated (or simply does not work). To solve the problem, you will be advised to update it or completely reinstall it (uninstall it and then install it again).

In addition, the reason may lie in the plugin settings Flash Player V . However, all these general words are not always able to lead to a solution to the problem, so I decided to dwell on the question in more detail installations, correct removal, updates and settings the brainchild of Adobe on your computer.

Flash Player update - why is it needed?

Let me start right away with the fact that in some browsers the Flash Player plugin is built-in along with the engine update. First of all, this applies to the Google Chrome Internet browser, which we discussed in detail. However, for some reason this plugin may be disabled there. How to enable it, read below.

Player system module too can track the appearance of its own updates, and you probably saw this window more than once the next time you turned on your computer:

I strongly recommend not to neglect the possibility of timely updates, because they may also include security updates. It is possible that this will save your computer from infection. I just wrote about the importance of updating all key components operating system(including flash player), because found security holes are quickly plugged in them.

If you have no desire to install this extension, but you want to know do you have it installed? latest version Flash, then there is a way to check from the official developers. All you have to do is go to this page and click on the “Check Now” button at the top to find out the information you are interested in:

However, unexpected problems may arise with the operation of Flash in your browser, when movies are not shown, games are not played, and the menus of some sites do not open. Apparently there is some problem with the Adobe Flash plugin. So let's see how we can install or update Flash Player.

Installing Flash Player and solving emerging problems

In the simplest case, you just need to go to the official Adobe Player page and click on the “Install” button located there:

If suddenly your browser and operating system are detected incorrectly, then you can click on the link “You need a Flash Player for another computer,” where you make the changes you need and click the “Install now” button. As I mentioned just above, in the case of the Google browser separate installation The plugin is not required, because it is included in the browser, but if you wish, you can still install the Adobe® Flash® Player system module:

In most cases, this will be enough for installation or updating, but sometimes unexpected problems arise when, even after installing the player, video, audio and games are still not displayed in the browser.

There may be many reasons for this state of affairs, but the most effective and in an effective way there will probably be complete reinstallation flash player. To do this, you will need to close all browsers you have open, go to the panel Windows controls(in Vista this is “Start” - “Control Panel” - “Programs and Features”) and remove this program (plugin). After that, go to the official website again and install Adobe Flash Player from scratch. In theory, some of the problems preventing normal operation, will have to be eliminated.

How to remove all “tails” from a flash player?

However, even after this, problems may remain. Then you will need to remove the “tails” of the player using specialized utility removal developed in Adobe —
Uninstall Flash Player. The procedure should be approximately as follows:

Download the flash player removal utility from the link above.
Before starting it, do not forget to close all browsers and other programs that may use Flash technology, otherwise complete removal it may not succeed. Check them out possible job V background(look in the tray).
Launch the utility and follow its instructions.
Once the uninstallation process is complete, restart your computer.

After this, you can install Flash Player again from the official website using the link provided. How to check its functionality? Well, you can again use the test from Adobe - just go to this page and make sure that in the fifth point you are watching an animation on the theme of a tree and clouds floating across the sky.

How to enable the Flash Player plugin in your browser

When the flash does not work, then in addition to the option of removing the player from the OS and its reinstallation, you can also look for the answer in your browser settings. The fact is that Adobe Flash Player is installed as a plugin, and for some mysterious reason it may simply be disabled. It's quite easy to check. It all depends on the browser you use:

If none of the methods described above bring results (Flash is not displayed in browsers), then I advise you to contact the developers (or their forum) for help, describing in detail the problem you are experiencing with Flash Player.

Good luck to you! See you soon on the pages of the blog site

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What to do if the Flash Player plugin crashes?

System crashes can sometimes happen on your computer, so in this case we will try to restart the plugin.

First, restart Mozilla Firefox itself. To do this, click on the menu button of your web browser and in the pop-up window, click on the button "Exit" . After the browser is closed, relaunch it.

Now restart the Flash Player plugin. To do this, click on the right top corner Click on the Internet browser menu button and in the window that appears, go to the section "Extras" .

On the left side of the window that appears, go to the “Plugins” tab. Set the status next to the Shockwave Flash plugin "Never turn on" .

Now let's activate the plugin. To do this, let's change the status of Shockwave Flash to "Always on" . Close the plugin management window and check Flash work Player.

In this case, we will try to completely reinstall Flash Player, first removing old version.

First of all, call the “Control Panel” menu, set the viewing mode "Small Icons" and go to the section "Programs and Features" .

Find it in the list of installed ones Adobe programs Flash Player, click on this program right click mouse and go to the item "Delete" . Complete the plugin removal procedure.

Once the uninstallation is complete, you can start a new download. To do this, follow the link at the end of the article to the official Adobe website, download the distribution, and then install software.

After installing Adobe Flash Player, be sure to restart your computer.

If Flash plugin Player crashes often, this may indicate incompatibility current version plugin with Mozilla version Firefox.

To check your Internet browser for updates, click on the Firefox menu button in the upper right corner and in the window that appears, click on the question mark icon.

The screen will display extra menu, in which you will need to click on the button "About Firefox" .

The browser will begin searching for updates. If the update is detected, you will be prompted to install it. If your browser does not require an update, you will see the following status on the screen:

If you experience many problems with your computer, you should suspect virus activity.

You can scan your system for viruses using either your antivirus or a free scanning utility that does not conflict with antivirus programs from other manufacturers and does not require installation on your computer.

Hardware acceleration can reduce the load of Flash Player on the system, but it can sometimes cause the plugin to crash.

To turn off hardware acceleration, you will need to go to any page in Mozilla Firefox where there is flash content, for example, following this link, right-click on the content (in our case it is a photo banner) and select the item in the context menu that appears "Options" .

In the window that opens, uncheck the checkbox "Enable hardware acceleration" , and then click on the button "Close" .

To complete the changes, restart Mozilla Firefox.

note that this method applicable exclusively to 32-bit operating systems. You can check the bitness of the operating system in the menu “Control Panel” – “System” . Near the point "System type" you will see your bit depth.

Click on the web browser menu button in the upper right corner and in the window that appears, go to the section "Extras" .

In the left area of the window, go to the tab "Plugins" . Click on the button next to the Shockwave Flash plugin "Settings" .

In the window that opens, uncheck the option "Enable protected Adobe mode Flash" . Restart Firefox.

Please note that after making these changes, minor browser freezes may occur.

Good afternoon, dear readers, today we will look into a situation where the Adobe Flash plugin crashed in your browser.

Surely you have already encountered this message more than once, but many do not know what it is, why the player crashes in the first place, and most importantly, what to do to prevent this from happening again?

The Adobe Flash Player plugin crashed, what should I do?

Let's pay attention, when does the plugin crash most often? And most often it happens while watching online movies or for example when you play online games through a browser, right? Oh yes, even when you open a lot of tabs and often switch between them, and if you run in one tab online game, and in the other, turn on the movie online... The problem is, if you have a problem with the flash player, then most likely you will almost immediately encounter the message, the adobe flash player plugin has crashed.

Sometimes a window with something like this pops up in your browser:

Stop script execution? And it gives us a choice of several actions, wait for us for a while until the program itself tries to solve the problem, or just click stop the script and after a second we can work again, but all the windows in which the plugin was used crashed and if you watched the movie, you need to reboot page and search for the place where you stopped, similar to music and games.

Agree - this is inconvenient, but what can we say - it infuriates, irritates and drives us crazy.

Like you, this tormented me for a very long time, but then I finally freaked out and decided to get rid of this illness. I read several recommendations on different sites, everything seemed somehow slippery to me. People just quote each other, at some point I even had thoughts that they don’t seem to know what they are writing about...

What to do? What to do and who to believe? Of course, it was possible to collect all the articles in a heap and derive some patterns from them all; apparently this would be the answer to my question. But, I needed not just advice, but specific way solution to the problem.

So what did I do? The solution, as always, was not so difficult; I read the descriptions of how the flash player works on the official Adobe website. Then I read the support replies Mozilla browser Firefox, since most users claim that this browser has a lot of flash player glitches. And yet he collected general structure articles from other users. Below are the results of my work to solve our common problem.

How to update the adobe flash plugin?

To do this, you need to go to the official website, you can find it through a search or go directly to the link: update flash player right now. The download page looks like this:

Before you click the update button now, I recommend that you pay attention to the fact that on the site you are offered to additionally install McAfee program– this program is for additional checking of the computer’s security; importantly, it does not conflict with the current antivirus and does not change the PC settings.

By the way, if you still have not installed an antivirus on your computer, urgently read the article on how to choose an antivirus and install protection for your PC. If you still don't need extra program in the McAfee view, uncheck the box next to it and then click the update now button.

During the update, you will need to close all active browsers; if there are any other conflicting programs that prevent the installation of the flash player, the program will notify you about this. If an error occurs during the update, first uninstall the old version of the program.

How to remove the old version of flash player?

You need to go to the Start menu - Control Panel - Programs and Features:

We remove the old ones and only now install new ones. If the problem still has not been solved after this, then you need to move on to the next longer measures, continue to read carefully and you will definitely cope.

How to reinstall the browser?

First, you delete your browser and install a new one. Unfortunately, there are a lot of browsers and I will not write now how to update a specific browser. I can tell you what you will always find new version your browser on its official website, in order to find the official website you need to enter the following queries in the search:

Official website of the Mozilla Firefox browser
Official site Opera browser

If you encounter any difficulties with the reinstallation or any individual errors, write to me via the feedback form, I will definitely help you. After we have reinstalled the browser, we need to return to the first point and update the flash player.

How to disable conflicting extensions?

Again we are faced with a problem when everyone different browsers, how to give the correct answer, go through all the browsers in turn? Unfortunately this is a lot...
I’ll look at the popular ones, and you can use their example to figure out your own.

Where should you go?

In Mozilla Firefox we go to the menu – advanced – plugins
In Opere we go to the menu – extensions

There we disable all plugins/extensions we do not need, except for Shockwave, which is responsible for video.

What is hardware acceleration and how to disable it?

Hardware acceleration is adobe feature flash player plays high quality videos and images without additional hardware.

By default, this function is enabled, although even on the Adobe website itself it is written that when the function is disabled, the computer's graphics cards will be used, which can provide a clearer and faster display of these materials.

To disable hardware acceleration of the player, you need to point at any element in the browser where the flash player is used. It could be some kind of game or just an advertisement on the site, point and click with the right mouse button, select the parameters column.

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Unfortunately, Adobe Flash Player is not the most reliable software that can be installed on a PC. In view of this, during its operation, various malfunctions can occur, which lead to its so-called collapse and other problems in operation. In this article we will try to analyze all the malfunctions in detail and answer the question: what to do if the Adobe Flash Player plugin crashes?

Installation problems

Initially, before discussing the crash of the Adobe Flash Player plugin, it is worth paying attention to its installation, since many people encounter difficulties already at this stage.

So, if for some reason you are unable to install the plugin on your computer, then perhaps the culprit is the files that were left over from previous versions programs. Accordingly, to eliminate this malfunction, you just need to clean the system from these files.

To begin with, it is recommended to use standard means operating system. Try uninstalling Adobe Flash through the Programs and Features utility, if this does not help, then install Revo program Uninstaller, and with its help you will definitely be able to clean your system of conflicting files.

After cleaning, try installing the plugin again - this time everything should be successful.

Adobe Flash Player Plugin Crash

Well, now let’s move directly to the crash of the plugin itself. A corresponding message appears on the computer when the Flash Player suddenly stops working. It occurs when viewing some element on the website created with the help or with the participation of Flash Player technology. To fix the problem when the Adobe Flash Player plugin crashes, you just need to reload the page and the element will start working again.

If this does not happen, then the reason is most likely outdated version plugin. Complete the update and everything will be fine. If the update does not occur, then uninstall, download and install the plugin again from the official website.

Flash Player Blocking

When you already know, but sometimes the problem may lie elsewhere. For example, many users have experienced that their plugin simply becomes blocked. However, the solution to this problem is quite trivial. You, as in the previous method, just need to update your plugin. Let us remind you that you need to download the new version only from the developer’s website, since unreliable sources can insert a virus into the software code.

Speaking of viruses. It is possible that the reason for the constant blocking of flash content may be viruses on the computer. Accordingly, they must be removed. This is best done using Avast antivirus or Kaspersky.

What to do if Adobe Flash Player won't update

Since we have moved a little away from the topic “What to do if the Adobe Flash plugin crashes,” it’s worth talking about problems with updating the plugin itself, because this article has been cited more than once as a solution to the problem.

Now we will briefly try to look at several methods that will explain what needs to be done to successfully update the plugin:

To restart a computer. First of all, if the plugin refuses to update, you should restart your PC, as this is the most common occurrence. After a reboot, everything should start working properly.
Refresh your browser. If Adobe is not updated, then check the version of your browser, it may also be outdated, and since Flash Player works directly with the browser, one interferes with the other.
Reinstall the plugin. This has already been discussed in the article. If you can’t, try uninstalling it completely, then downloading it from the site and installing it.
Disable antivirus. In some cases, the reason for refusing to update is the antivirus, believing that the downloaded files can harm your PC. If you have 100% installed Flash Player from an official source, then temporarily disable the antivirus to carry out a successful update.

Here are four tips on what to do if the plugin refuses to update. Well, we move on.

Enabling Flash Player

If you notice that the Adobe Flash plugin constantly crashes, then the reason for this may be simply disabling it. Let's now figure out why this happens and how to turn it back on.

The point is that in Lately"Flash Player" is rapidly losing its popularity, giving way to new system HTML5, so some browsers set Flash Player to disabled by default. To get it working again, you need to do the following:

Click on the browser's "Menu" button.
In the drop-down menu, select "Add-ons" or "Plugins" (depending on the browser).
Find "Flash Player" in the list of plugins and enable it.

After this everything should return to normal.

Conclusion

In this article, we tried to deal with the problem of Adobe Flash Player problems. We recommend starting your correction attempts from the very beginning, as they are ranked in order from the greatest chance of success to the least.

Sometimes when launching content or some web pages, the message “Shockwave Flash plugin is not responding” appears. Most susceptible Google crashes Chrome. A conflict arises with the Adobe Flash plugin, and the browser slows down, freezes, and displays a message that the plugin is not responding. What should I do to get performance back?

Why does Google Chrome flash plugin crash issue?

Most often the plugin crashes Google Chrome appear when the user tries to open a site page or launch content that works using it.

Google Chrome has its own flash plugin integrated. The browser tries to simultaneously use both its own resource and the one installed offline. The built-in Flash Player conflicts with installed by user Adobe Flash. This results in a failure of the built-in resource.

How to resolve the Shockwave Flash conflict?

View installed plugins in Google through settings it is impossible. To access this information you must:

IN search bar browser enter the phrase: chrome://plugins. Information about installed plugins will open.
In the list you need to find components for using flash. The phrase Flash (2 Files) will confirm that exactly two resources are installed
The versions will be listed below installed flash players, look detailed information for each resource you can use the More details option ([+] Details)

To eliminate the conflict between resources, you need to disable one flash player. The built-in plugin is located at: AppData\Local\Google\Chrome..., and the exact location of the libraries Adobe versions depends on OS and plugin versions. Approximately it will be located at: C:\Windows\...

Disable the application using the special “Disable” option. You only need to disable the built-in Google flash player. Information about it is contained in the Disable link. Here you can check the result of the operation: whether it turned off or not.

How to fix a plugin crash in Opera?

Very often crashes occur in the Opera browser plugin. If the Opera plugin is not responding, the problem may be caused by incorrect installation browser updates. As a result, it begins to slow down, freeze, and no video content is produced. What to do?

In most cases, Shockwave flash failure in Opera can be resolved by restarting the plugin itself: enter the phrase opera:plugins in the browser search bar and find it in the list the right resource- Shockwave Flash. Restarting the application must be done by turning it off and on.

If the failures continue, you need to install updated version resource from the official Adobe website
If there are malfunctions in the operation of the flash player in Opera, and installed version Shockwave flash is relevant, it is necessary to clear some information in the cache and resource parks. To do this you need to do the following:

Clear cache. In the Start panel computer search engine, type the phrase %appdata%\Adobe. You need to completely delete all information in the Flash Player folder. After that, using the PC search engine using the phrase: %appdata%\Macromedia, find the folder of the same name and delete the entire folder in it with the name of the flash player
Delete flash player information saved on PC. To do this, open Control Panel → Flash Player → Advanced and click the “Delete all” button

If shockwave flash freezes in Opera, you need to disable hardware acceleration. To do this, you need to launch any web resource that works using flash technology, for example, YouTube. Mouse over the video and call up context menu, in which you need to select the parameters section, uncheck hardware acceleration in it.

If Flash does not start in Opera Shockwave, there may be no up-to-date drivers for video content. They need to be reinstalled.