I Can't View Flash Sites Now

Written By Scrivs on Mar. 10, 2008.

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So I was gone for a week and come back to the internet and find that I can't view most sites that have even a little bit of Flash in them. Firefox simply locks up and the beachball stays on forever.

Safari you say? Exact same thing.

Installed new betas and nightly builds along with the latest version of Flash and nothing. I can't even get the full ESPN page to load. YouTube is hit and miss. If anyone else has this problem let me know or if you know the solution please save me. I need my ESPN.

Nils

Written Mar. 10, 2008 / Report /

Not sure, but the latest Flash update has upset quite a few people.

Have you tried reverting to a previous, non-buggy, flash version?

I wrote this post regarding the matter. It's mostly about the issues I was having (w/sound) but it seems there is a lot more that's wrong with 9.0.115.0... Hope it helps.

If it does have to do with previously unnoticed bugs, this is quite disturbing. A lot of people are going to want to have an eye-to-eye with Adobe....

RightOn

Written Mar. 10, 2008 / Report /

Same here... I've had my entire computer lock up to the point that I have to either try to force quit everything, or reboot.

And that's even for those damned flash based banner ads.

It's pissing me off.

jellis

Written Mar. 10, 2008 / Report /

I encountered the same issue Saturday. Huge discussion in the Apple dev forums, with folks trying all sorts of approaches to resolve it.

Any chance you've visited ESPN.com recently? That seems to have initiated the problem for a lot of folks -- causing other sites to start flaking out as well. Late Sunday, ESPN seemed to roll back to a previous version of their flash code. After that, a browser cache flush and reboot seemed to solve the problem for most.