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Flash Player is freezing

Unread post by JohnDough3123 » 2016-10-12, 14:55

When playing .swf files on a webpage, flash freezes or turns into a black screen when I resize the flash window or scroll through the page, then only unfreezes when I minimize and maximize. I have tried this with the latest Firefox and it works fine, only happens to PM. This started happening when I updated to Flash Player 23.
-My graphics drivers are up to date
-Flash and PM are up to date
-I have tried reinstalling both flash and PM
-I have tried toggling hardware acceleration

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

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Re: Flash Player is freezing

Unread post by coffeebreak » 2016-10-12, 19:01

There have been a few other reports of freezing with Flash Player. Some people found it helpful to roll back to an older version or else the ESR version (last ever update was Oct 11, but still available).

Please read:
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=13070
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=13133
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=13181#p93258
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=9199&p=93374#p93347

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Re: Flash Player is freezing

Unread post by JohnDough3123 » 2016-10-12, 21:41

coffeebreak wrote:There have been a few other reports of freezing with Flash Player. Some people found it helpful to roll back to an older version or else the ESR version (last ever update was Oct 11, but still available).

Please read:
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=13070
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=13133
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=13181#p93258
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=9199&p=93374#p93347
Yeah it should've been obvious, I rolled back to 22 and it's normal now. Thanks.

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Re: Flash Player is freezing

Unread post by Moonchild » 2016-11-21, 15:44

Today I've actually helped a friend who was having massive issues on Kongregate with Flash games there, even very old ones. Choking, stuttering, etc. -- the solution there too was uninstall, and revert to v18 ESR and smooth sailing afterwards.
Not sure what Adobe's been doing lately with their plugin but it just doesn't work properly any longer.
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Re: Flash Player is freezing

Unread post by Tomaso » 2016-11-23, 19:24

Moonchild wrote:the solution there too was uninstall, and revert to v18 ESR
From a security point of view, I'd strongly advice against that.

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Re: Flash Player is freezing

Unread post by Al6bus » 2016-11-23, 19:48

The latest version of ESR v18 is quite fresh (Released 10/11/2016), it is too early to write off it from a practical point of view.
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Re: Flash Player is freezing

Unread post by Tomaso » 2016-11-23, 20:16

Al6bus wrote:The latest version of ESR v18 is quite fresh
The last ESR version was v18.0.0.382, which is signed Sep.26.2016.
Since then, several critical and well known security flaws have been addressed.
The ESR branch has actually been discontinued:
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/889580/

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Re: Flash Player is freezing

Unread post by davews » 2016-11-23, 21:22

v18.0.0.382 was actually released on 11th October (see https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb ... sions.html)
Until flash problems with v23 are fixed on PM we really don't have any option but to use that version.

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Re: Flash Player is freezing

Unread post by Tomaso » 2016-11-23, 21:48

davews wrote:v18.0.0.382 was actually released on 11th October.
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11 ‎October ‎2016, ‏‎06:40:25

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Re: Flash Player is freezing

Unread post by satrow » 2016-11-24, 07:15

There have been a number of occasions in the recent past where the ESR Flash hasn't needed to have been patched (similar for the Firefox ESR versions), which would indicate that some of the time it was only the Release versions that had vulnerability issues.

If your OS is fully patched (a large number of Windows patches are specifically for the same issues that are prone to being attacked through a vulnerable Flash version), there might only be a slight increase in your potential vulnerability to exploits by using the latest Flash ESR version.

This would not be the case for ActiveX versions of Flash as they run closer to the OS, making them a prime target for exploits (and a major reason why MS have taken over responsibility for that branch of Flash in W8.1/W10).

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Re: Flash Player is freezing

Unread post by Tomaso » 2016-12-13, 16:09

Adobe Flash Player v24.0.0.186 has been released today.
This looks promising (from the list of fixes):
Flash Player quits unexpectedly while playing (4195719)
Let's see if it behaves better than the previous version!

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Re: Flash Player is freezing

Unread post by Tomaso » 2016-12-13, 20:41

Tomaso wrote:Adobe Flash Player v24.0.0.186 has been released today.
This looks promising (from the list of fixes):
Flash Player quits unexpectedly while playing (4195719)
Let's see if it behaves better than the previous version!
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EDIT:
So far, so good! :)

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Re: Flash Player is freezing

Unread post by Tomaso » 2016-12-14, 15:41

Unfortunately, the bug is still present when using Flash Player v24.0.0.186. :(

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Re: Flash Player is freezing

Unread post by Tomaso » 2016-12-18, 12:34

Good news is that with Flash Player v24.0.0.186, the freezing doesn't happen very often anymore.
In fact, it has only frozen once for me this far, so Adobe has definitey looked into this issue!

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Re: Flash Player is freezing

Unread post by Tomaso » 2016-12-26, 22:32

I've posted some updates on the issue here:
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=14199&p=102146#p102099

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