shockwave chrome plugin crashing osx 2017

Shockwave Chrome Plugin Crashing Osx 2017 Software Maker Has

However, quite a few users have a problem with Adobes Shockwave Flash plugin for the browser.

Shockwave Chrome Plugin Crashing Osx 2017 Software Maker Has

The software maker has dealt with numerous security issues with Flash, Reader and their other apps.

This isnt a security hole, but simply a problem with the extension crashing and causing Chrome to have problems of unresponsiveness.

Generally speaking, what users experience is the following: a web page or tab freezes in Chrome and that is followed by a message under the menu bar stating that Shockwave Flash has crashed.

This can also be followed by a popup from Chrome asking if you want to close unresponsive tabs.

Fortunately, there is a fix for this common problem that is fairly simple for even a beginner user to handle.

Update: Google changed how plugins are managed in the Chrome browser.

The chrome:plugins page is no longer available and the method described below does not work anymore because of it and because Google added Flash to Chrome internally.

You can manage Flash functionality by loading chrome:settingscontent in the browser and selecting Flash from the listing.

There you may disable Flash altogether, change its default status, or whitelist or blacklist it.

End To get started, open Chrome and click in the address bar.

Scroll down to find the Flash plugin and pay attention to if there is more than one version installed.

If you notice multiple versions then this is causing your problems.

If you find multiple versions of the plugin installed then click the toggle to expand the entries for the plugin.

Now, disable Chromes internal Flash installation which is located in Chromes AppData folder.

This may not fix every Shockwave Flash problem, and some of you may find only one version installed.

Hopefully, this will fix the issue for the vast majority of users.

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