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Flash freezes when I open a new tab

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Kekkeltje
Kekkeltje
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Hello,

I have a problem that recently accord. When I play a game, which uses adobe flash, at first the game works fine. But when I open a new tab, or open a second window, and then return to the tab with the game. It is not responding any more. I cannot click on or move anything. After refreshing the page it works again until I open a new tab and the story starts again.

I have updated both Firefox as Adobe flash to the latest versions.

Any thoughts on how to fix this?

Hello, I have a problem that recently accord. When I play a game, which uses adobe flash, at first the game works fine. But when I open a new tab, or open a second window, and then return to the tab with the game. It is not responding any more. I cannot click on or move anything. After refreshing the page it works again until I open a new tab and the story starts again. I have updated both Firefox as Adobe flash to the latest versions. Any thoughts on how to fix this?

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Firefox 54? Why aren't you using the stable Firefox 53? Have you tried that? :)

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Dan
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Firefox 54? Why aren't you using the stable Firefox 53? Have you tried that? :)

Dan
Dan
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https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keep-flash-up-to-date-and-troubleshoot-problems#w_other-flash-problems-and-solutions

cor-el
cor-el
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Note that such issues can be related to async drawing.

You can check for issues related to async drawing and try out if changing these prefs on the about:config page has effect.

  • dom.ipc.plugins.asyncInit.enabled (false)
  • dom.ipc.plugins.asyncdrawing.enabled (false/true)
  • layers.allow-d3d9-fallback (true)