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On various websites I periodically (but increasingly) find the screen freezing and then a message
"Shockwave Flash may be busy or may have stopped responding"

Any ideas why, and what to do?

cheers!

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  • esuhl
    esuhl Posts: 9,409 Forumite
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    I'm not sure, but I noticed this in Firefox on Windows machines recently. I disabled hardware acceleration (by right-clicking on a Flash video and choosing "settings") and set the Flash plugin to "Ask to activate" in about:addons.

    It seems to have done the trick...
  • I have also been getting this lately, and with a bit of searching it looks like the latest update of flash isn't compatible with Firefox.
    I tried various things posted on the net and it looks like it is definately a firefox/compatability problem, as nothing helped.
    I downloaded chrome and haven't had this problem again.
    If it isn't broken, don't try to fix it.
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