This site will have limited functionality while we undergo maintenance to improve your experience. If an article doesn't solve your issue and you want to ask a question, we have our support community waiting to help you at @FirefoxSupport on Twitter and/r/firefox on Reddit.

Avatar for Username

Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

This thread was archived. Please ask a new question if you need help.

adobe flash hangs browser

  • 3 replies
  • 11 have this problem
  • 7 views
  • Last reply by arthurz1

f1r31c3r
f1r31c3r
more options

For a few months now since Adobe updated the flash player on Linux the player has caused direct rendering issues to the whole desktop. Most obvious crash is the hang of the browser without being able to get firefox to respond. The Browser goes into Disk Sleep and can not be killed or restarted. I not tried rolling back the flash player to the previous version yet. If it is the flash player at fault then maybe i need get it masked in portage but that is another story.

Flash player version i was using is:

www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.2.202.336

Ill try and roll back the version and see if it still happens to determine if it is something in the binary blab from Adobe.

Note i have tried this on version 24 of the browser including the latest version i am using at present.

For a few months now since Adobe updated the flash player on Linux the player has caused direct rendering issues to the whole desktop. Most obvious crash is the hang of the browser without being able to get firefox to respond. The Browser goes into Disk Sleep and can not be killed or restarted. I not tried rolling back the flash player to the previous version yet. If it is the flash player at fault then maybe i need get it masked in portage but that is another story. Flash player version i was using is: www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.2.202.336 Ill try and roll back the version and see if it still happens to determine if it is something in the binary blab from Adobe. Note i have tried this on version 24 of the browser including the latest version i am using at present.

All Replies (3)

Meghraj Suthar
Meghraj Suthar
more options

Crashes or other problems with certain multimedia content in Firefox (such as Youtube videos and Flash animations or games) can often be resolved by performing the steps in these Knowledge Base articles:

On Windows Vista and above, you can disable Flash protected mode by following the instructions on these pages:

(See this Adobe blog post for technical details about Flash protected mode.)

Please tell us if this helped!

f1r31c3r
f1r31c3r Question owner
more options

Hi, thank you for the reply.

I am on GNU/Linux not windows. All versions of Adobe flash above 11.2.xxx are NOT available.

Adobe have cut support for versions above to 11.2 for Linux and GNU software.

I rolled back the player to:

adobe-flash-11.2.202.327_pre

And it still hangs the same. The suggestions you made have all been carried out. This issue has been driving me mad for several months.

If one does not forcefully kill the browser then you can regain control of the Disk Sleep state by being very patient and closing the offending tab containing the flash content that is trying to load the flash player.

Can take up to 10 min to close the tab. once closed the browser returns to normal.

I cant seem to find any prior version to roll back to other than the one i have listed above. So it seems all of the builds 11.2.202.3XX cause this problem.

I cant seem to fetch any versions lower to rollback.

Again note that i am using the open source branded version that was compiled from source using GCC options "march=native -O2 -gddb".

The last time i managed to create this occurance was when i had two flash content screens playing on two screens while 3D rendering was also being used i.e. Compiz-fusion and WebGL HTML5 content. I personally have a feeling it is a conflict between WebGL and Flash but i can not be sure hence i posted here as i cant figure it out.

For now the solution is to uninstall Adobe-Flash and use the convert flash to HTML5 player, this does not work for all content though as some embeded code wont work with this plugin.

arthurz1
arthurz1
more options

I recently had same problem discovered 2 issues back in the day i used to have adobe flash and shockwave but installing both made youtube hang and bbc not work at all another major issue occured when i installed each program 1 by 1 i discovered a program called prio rendered bbc news unwatchable and youtube a major hang and possibly other sites i dont watch simply uninstalling prio corrected the problem