New Adobe flash player upgrade causes Opera 26.0 to crash
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lando242 last edited by
If its messed up on all your browsers I'd bet you have some kind of malware infection. Get a copy of AdwCleaner and Malwarebytes and have them check out your system.
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A Former User last edited by
You meant Windows 7/Vista/XP2008/2003 right?
Yes I did, sorry it wouldn't have happened if I'd been able to copy/paste it!
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oldleatherneck last edited by
That's okay, I tried it and Opera still crashes. I'm seriously considering going back to Chrome.
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A Former User last edited by
I think you need to get completely rid of every version of Flash Player on your system, including manually deleting the folders and cleaning the registry.
Don't worry about Adobe AIR and Adobe Reader, they are nothing to do with Flash.
Then start again, just installing the PPAPI version and see if Opera is then happy.
You can then add the IE version back too if you need it.
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oldleatherneck last edited by
I have no version of Adobe Flash Player in programs now I deleted it. Where are the folders located?
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A Former User last edited by
The Windows files should be in the C:\Windows\System32\Macromed\Flash folder.
Not sure about on Macs I'm afraid.
Incidentally, if you don't know this, "Macromed" is the shortened eight character DOS compatible name from Macromedia, which was the company that invented Flash and were taken over by Adobe years ago.
A legacy from the mists of time that's still there on new installations even now, presumably for backwards compatibility reasons!
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oldleatherneck last edited by
Wow, I'm in so far over my head I don't even know which way to turn. lol Is "C:\Windows\System32\Macromed\Flash folder" in Local Disc (C:) ?
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oldleatherneck last edited by
I went there and only saw the the download I did last night. I deleted it. As far as cleaning the registry, I ran CCleaner. Does that clean registry?
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A Former User last edited by
The cleaner should remove any invalid registry entries.
As you've deleted the Flash folder, it should remove any entries associated with it.
If you look at the plugins list in Opera now, what (if anything) do you have listed for Flash Player?
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oldleatherneck last edited by
These are all the plug ins listed: NPCIG.dll , Chrome PDF Viewer , Windows Presentation Foundation , QuickTime Player (5) , Adobe Reader , Java(TM) (2) , Google Update , iTunes Application Detector , and Silverlight
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A Former User last edited by
OK, so you have no Flash Player plugin now.
Now reinstall the PPAPI version of the Flash Plugin from the link I gave you earlier.
It should then work.
I actually have the PPAPI and NPAPI versions both listed and have had no stability problems (touch wood!)
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oldleatherneck last edited by
Okay I did just as you instructed, restarted my computer and opened my browser and it crashed. It recovered then posted this....Opera has just recovered from a crash. We've just recovered from a crash, but to do it we had to disable your extensions and wipe out your session. You can try to enable the extensions again in Extensions Manager. Sorry! If I don't go in and disable it it just keeps on crashing every time I open the browser.
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A Former User last edited by
If I don't go in and disable it it just keeps on crashing every time I open the browser.
When you say "it" are you meaning the PPAPI Flash Player plugin?
Is the browser completely stable if you have it disabled?
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oldleatherneck last edited by
When I say "it" I'm referring to Opera. It crashes as fast as it recovers from the previous crash, (every few seconds). After doing that about 2 or 3 times Opera automatically disables it now. Yes, once Flash is disabled it's smooth sailing I'm just not able to watch videos on facebook or do anything on PicMonkey.com
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A Former User last edited by
So it appears that any version of Flash, NPAPI or PPAPI, causes your Opera to repeatedly crash.
That is very strange indeed, as no-one else to my knowledge has reported this.
What extensions do you have installed, if any?
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oldleatherneck last edited by
NPCIG.dll , Chrome PDF Viewer , Windows Presentation Foundation , QuickTime Player (5) , Adobe Reader , Java(TM) (2) , Google Update , iTunes Application Detector , and Silverlight
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