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flash player stopped working

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shilow19
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No matter what I do when I go on to Facebook the site is fine put when I go to play a game be Dore I had a encrypted pages now none are and I left my other computer running windows 8.1 and upgraded the flash and everything else and all my pages are encrypted so why not in windows 10 also windows 10 when playing a game with in 3 min of loading game 80 percent of the time becomes unresponsive and grays out no error message please help

No matter what I do when I go on to Facebook the site is fine put when I go to play a game be Dore I had a encrypted pages now none are and I left my other computer running windows 8.1 and upgraded the flash and everything else and all my pages are encrypted so why not in windows 10 also windows 10 when playing a game with in 3 min of loading game 80 percent of the time becomes unresponsive and grays out no error message please help

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it was running great intill the upgrade on the 15th now it will run great for about 1 hour or intill i go to a new page then it will freeze up and i cant get it to stop i turned the flash player acceleration off but that did not help

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guigs
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Hi, There are two things that happen with the flash player greys out, it is either that the extension is disabled and it is asking to allow it for the current site displaying flash content or there might be a display issue.

Fro the second try to disable hardware acceleration in the Flash player.Some problems with Flash video playback can be resolved by disabling hardware acceleration in your Flash Player settings. (See this article for more information on using the Flash plugin in Firefox).

To disable hardware acceleration in Flash Player:

  1. Go to this Adobe Flash Player Help page.
  2. Right-click on the Flash Player logo on that page.
  3. Click on Settings in the context menu. The Adobe Flash Player Settings screen will open.
  4. Click on the icon at the bottom-left of the Adobe Flash Player Settings window to open the Display panel.

    The image "fpSettings1.PNG" does not exist.
  5. Remove the check mark from Enable hardware acceleration.
  6. Click Close to close the Adobe Flash Player Settings Window.
  7. Restart Firefox.

This Flash Player Help - Display Settings page has more information on Flash Player hardware acceleration, if you're interested.

Does this solve the problem? Let us know.

shilow19
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it was running great intill the upgrade on the 15th now it will run great for about 1 hour or intill i go to a new page then it will freeze up and i cant get it to stop i turned the flash player acceleration off but that did not help

shilow19
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got the problem solved it had nothing to do with the acceleration it was to do with plat form in the web itself has a matter of fact the page that kept throwing me off line was telling me to turn it on the acceleration well come to find out i though my flash player was up to date it was not im surprised i was able to get anything i kept being told by adore my flash player was updated but i ran a test they have and it came back has out dated usually it updates itself and i dont have to worry but it did not for some reason this time thank you all for your help