Adobe Flash Player/Shockwave is not running on FireFox... does not run in Youtube, or other video sites.
Hmmm... this morning I was watching youtube videos.. and I noticed a little lag. Really minor... but thought that shouldn't be happening.? So decided to see if I could fix it. Not sure what I did or if I did anything to cause this? I really don't think so. Maybe firefox.exe -p?? Was working fine up until today?
I've read a bunch of the forums and tried a bunch of stuff but still no go. When I disable protected mode it works fine, but I want protected mode to be enabled so that I'm... well... 'protected!' I've uninstalled FireFox and Flash Player and reinstalled numerous times but still same thing. I'm running Windows 8.1, with most recent Flash and FireFox. My computer is an i7 4700HQ 2.4 Ghz, 12 GB Ram etc... its a 6 month laptop.
Anyone know what the issue is? I've never experienced anything like it? I've ran Malaware bytes.. didn't find anything. Ran AVG and found one threat... I think it was the Crack threat (cockos??) does that ring a bell...? came from a torrent. That issue has been healed now tho.. not sure if they are related??
Also ran a disc cleanup and it took about 5 minutes... doesn't usually take that long but its all clean now. Deleted a bunch of debug dump files... again, not sure if that's related??
Here are a few of the crash error logs I've gotten recently:
bp-7e266393-2fd8-447c-8a0e-7299b2150426 2015-04-26 12:32 AM bp-29ac358f-9463-4379-9fc1-19a8b2150426 2015-04-25 10:50 PM
bp-7d9929e7-42df-425b-a549-b4aa42150426 2015-04-25 9:13 PM
Anyways, I would like to still use Flash but its killing me right now trying to figure out whats going on. Would really appreciate some help/advice. Let me know if you need more info.
Cheers!
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When I disable protected mode it works fine
What exactly do you mean with 'protected mode'? I don't think Firefox has a protected mode.
about:config
dom.ipc.plugins.flash.disable-protected-mode;false
Disables the protected mode for flash plugin in firefox.
I've also tried different firefox profiles... using a test profile. Still doesn't work?
dom.ipc.plugins.flash.disable-protected-mode;false
That is the default, and I'm not sure why you'd want to start messing with it in the first place.
using a test profile. Still doesn't work?
Can you explain in detail
- what you're doing
- what happens, and
- what you expect to happen?
Have you tried http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ to check whether Flash works in the first place? Also make sure you have the latest version of Flash.
See if this article helps. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Flash
Some background information about the Adobe Flash Protected Mode for christ1. http://blogs.adobe.com/security/2012/06/inside-flash-player-protected-mode-for-firefox.html
Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600 that you have is a relatively low end graphics card and low end for on-board graphics chips, whichever you have. Unless that is a laptop that switches drivers for "gaming" which puts a lot more load on the hardware and runs the battery out a lot faster. Technically the HD 4600 should be enough for web browsing, but Flash is a lot more than simple web browsing.
IMO, if disabling the Flash Protected Mode solves that issue - do that. Or upgrade your hardware, especially if you have a separate Graphics Card [vs an on-board chip] or can install a better card in a desktop computer.
As far as YouTube videos goes, have you tried using the HTML5 setting for YouTube? https://www.youtube.com/html5 Make that setting and Google will deliver HTML5 video when it is available for each "clip". From what I have seen [I'm not a big user of YouTube, though], like maybe 75% of the clips I see are available in HTML5 - ymmv.
BTW, Mozilla is working on eliminating the need for even having to use Flash. They're working a a project which is code-named Shumway to play SWF-format files. http://mozilla.github.io/shumway/ You can download it from that page, but it is at the early stages of development and needs a lot more work before it is truly usable.
Thanks the-edmeister ... yeah I agree with you, I don't think my graphics card is all that great, but I don't game so don't really need it. And it should be more than enough to run simple video. HTML5 works and disabling protected mode works... but Flash used to work great??..
and also is it safe to run flash/firefox in unprotected mode? I would rather not.
Plus I read that it should always be re-enabled when the problem is solved.
What I am really frustrated about, is what changed? Did I blow something up? Did I change something I shouldn't have? I don't think I did, but I might of?? I don't understand why it all of a sudden stop working. Is the only answer to this problem, (when for the past 6 months it worked fine), to not use flash, or to disable protected mode?
Somebody has to know what is going on here??
I just tried reverting to 10.3 and even 17.?.?.134 instead of .169 and still no go.
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