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Stupid Flash. [Tue, 6-May-2008 7:46 PM]
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Dear Lazyweb, lately (this month-ish) I'm seeing that "A script in this movie is causing Adobe Flash Player 9 to run slowly" dialog all the time. Safari will go all hypnowheel for 5-10 seconds, and then that dialog appears, giving me the options of "break the web page" or "go back to the hypnowheel for another ten seconds, then everything's fine." Who broke what? No scratch that, just tell me how to fix it.

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[User Picture]From: [info]jieves
Wed, 7-May-2008 3:23 AM (UTC)

Webkit Nightlies

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I generally use a Webkit nightly build instead of main Safari. It seems to reduce the amount of Flash breakage, for whatever reason, and uses the same data stores.

http://nightly.webkit.org/
[User Picture]From: [info]bitpuddle
Wed, 7-May-2008 3:32 AM (UTC)

Re: Webkit Nightlies

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Yea; I haven't seen this since I started building WebKit from source.
[User Picture]From: [info]endquote
Wed, 7-May-2008 3:32 AM (UTC)

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Uninstall Flash Player, and reinstall it. Apple wonked it with a recent security update.
[User Picture]From: [info]jwz
Wed, 7-May-2008 4:47 PM (UTC)

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Well, that didn't work. It may have actually made it worse (I just had to wait 60 seconds for the hypnowheel to go away before I got the dialog instead of the usual 10.)
[User Picture]From: [info]jwz
Thu, 8-May-2008 5:24 PM (UTC)

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I'm now pretty sure that this made it worse.

Is there an older version of the Flash plugin I should try? Adobe seems to only have the latest version on their site.
[User Picture]From: [info]endquote
Thu, 8-May-2008 5:51 PM (UTC)

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Reinstalling seemed to solve it for me, but if you want to try old ones, they're here.
[User Picture]From: [info]cfs_calif
Wed, 7-May-2008 3:33 AM (UTC)

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I had that problem a while aback, but seems to have gone away with flash 9.0.12x and safari 3.1.1.
[User Picture]From: [info]chromebishop
Wed, 7-May-2008 5:23 AM (UTC)

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Sons and Daughters, huh?

Did you go see them last week at GAMH? I didnt, but the write up in the BG encouraged me to go download a few.....
[User Picture]From: [info]jwz
Wed, 7-May-2008 6:53 AM (UTC)

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I did, they were awesome. Like their CDs a lot too. I also really liked Bodies of Water live (they had kind of a spaghetti western feel) though their CD... doesn't capture that at all.
[User Picture]From: [info]ammonoid
Wed, 7-May-2008 2:47 PM (UTC)

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I dunno, but when I got a new mac mini suddenly flash would not work in certain situation when it had previously. Re-installing both firefox and flash failed to fix it. Running in rosetta didn't help either.

It didn't work in safari either. Note that this is not all flash aps, just some.

At this point I've just given up.

Do you have an intel mac?

I have no idea how to fix it, I'm just curious.
[User Picture]From: [info]wisn
Mon, 12-May-2008 4:31 PM (UTC)

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That's the standard symptom of disabled plugins. Go to Preferences > Security > Web Content and see if 'Enable plug-ins' is unchecked.

I would swear there's an undocumented hotkey that toggles this setting, because it happens to a lot of people.
[User Picture]From: [info]ammonoid
Mon, 12-May-2008 4:42 PM (UTC)

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Hm, I'll have to try that. Thanks!
[User Picture]From: [info]elusis
Wed, 7-May-2008 8:46 PM (UTC)

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No clue, but if you figure out why [info]rivetpepsquad's main LJ page sometimes utterly breaks my copy of Firefox, I'll buy you a drink.
[User Picture]From: [info]jwz
Wed, 7-May-2008 10:11 PM (UTC)

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I'm gonna have to go with "Too Jaunty".
[User Picture]From: [info]elusis
Fri, 9-May-2008 9:02 AM (UTC)

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You're a veritable fount of useful knowledge.
[User Picture]From: [info]lohphat
Wed, 7-May-2008 9:10 PM (UTC)

Known problem

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In fact, there are several FF3 bugs relating on flash causing FF to come to a screeching halt. It's the plug-in apparently.
[User Picture]From: [info]ammonoid
Thu, 8-May-2008 5:26 AM (UTC)

Re: Known problem

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And when will there be a known fix?
[User Picture]From: [info]lohphat
Thu, 8-May-2008 5:59 AM (UTC)

Re: Known problem

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Ask Adobe. The plugin causes FF2 to hork as well. I've updated to bug to check to make sure that the moz dev team eliminates the moz plugin API from the problem (e.g. make sure how plugins are allocated viewports in a content page) so that they can point the finger @ Adobe with more certainty.

See: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421643
[User Picture]From: [info]7leaguebootdisk
Thu, 8-May-2008 7:44 PM (UTC)

Re: Known problem

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When there is a 64 bit flash? :-D

Sigh.
[User Picture]From: [info]violentbloom
Mon, 12-May-2008 4:49 AM (UTC)

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gah Flash has gone to shit.

It was never supposed to do all that crap.