I am sure you have encountered this, my Safari crashes whenever it is running Flash content, mostly when I am browsing on websites which have Flash in banner ads. That really sucks!
While the last Flash update the release was mainly inclined towards fixing many security vulnerabilities. However, the new code makes the browser crash.
The FIX to this problem is: downgrade Flash Version to the version v47. Follow the given steps and trust me this works!
- Go to Adobe Flash Download page and download “Flash Player 9.”
- After the download open the package, then open the “9r47 Folder”. Select flashplayer9r47_ub_mac.dmg.zip (flashplayer9r47_max.zip is for PPC only) for machine. This installs Flash 9.0.47.
- Reset & Restart Safari
But if this doesn’t help you, alternatively you can try removing Flip4Mac, Microsoft WMV components for QuickTime. I hope that helps you.
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May 29th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Although I don’t have this “crashing” Flash problem on my Macs, it sounds like a good troubleshooting process to downgrade the Flash version, but…that does not sound like a long term solution.
I also don’t think it has anything to do with Flip4Mac, but it certainly is wise to remove any Window Media Player software. That has not been compatible for a long time…support abandoned by MS.
One quick test for this problem would be to create a new User account and see if you can get a Flash site to crash from that account. If not, good…you then know it might be a software conflict in your main user account. You can take it a step further and install Flip4Mac into that new test account, and try the process again. I suspect that won’t cause any issues, but this is the route I might take in trying to figure out what is going on with Safari crashes and Flash content.