Flash plug in causes Firefox 4.0.1 (on Vista Business) to hang
Flash plug in causes Firefox4 (on Vista Business) to hang, on sites with flash content (videos, etc)
I tried everything I found in firefox forums (uninstalling - reinstalling the plugin, disabling hardware accelaration, etc ), but it was useless
I tried installing Firefox 5.0b2 and I have the same problem: with the flash plug in activated, I get CPU usage up to 100% and Firefox hangs...
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Modified by kosalive
Make sure that you allow the plugin-container process in the firewall.
You can try to disable the hardware acceleration in the Flash Player.
See Flash videos won't play full screen
- http://www.youtube.com/swf_test.html (right-click the player: Settings)
Flash "Display settings" window:
Thanks for the reply, cor-el. I've already tried these... On pages like: http://www.youtube.com/swf_test.html , Firefox hangs on opening -no time to do anything with the flash player
Modified by kosalive
If you can open the Flash player in IE then try to disable hardware acceleration there. Flash settings are stored in the %AppData%\Macromedia\Flash Player\ locally folder for each Windows user.
I am not sure if this is a Flash Player or a hardware problem. I think it is a Firefox bug, as well... The Flash plugin works fine with Chrome (hardware acceleration enabled or disabled). I also tried Opera and IE9 and everything works fine, too.
Good news: after unistalling both Flash Player 10 Plugin (FF4) and Flash Player 10 ActiveX (IE9) and then reinstalling them, everything works fine for me, at the moment.
cor-el, thanks for the replies!
You're welcome. Glad that you got things working with an uninstall and reinstall.