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[Closed] stw and adobe plugin problems today?

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having huge problems getting pages to load with the 'Singletrack TV' Adobe thing on them.

Each page hangs for about 90 seconds then I get an 'Adobe Plugin has crashed message'.
This is in both IE and Firefox so I don't think it's a browser issue and I've just downloaded and installed the latest Adobe release to no effect.

Anyone else having problems?


 
Posted : 26/01/2012 9:33 am
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yep - have had a handful of plugin crashes in chrome.


 
Posted : 26/01/2012 9:36 am
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Yep... somethings up. Page is unusable in firefox (until this appears

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Posted : 26/01/2012 9:39 am
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an unmentionable add-in has fixed the problem at my end in a robust way.
I guess a modmail is in order to get someone to look at it.

EDIT: have emailed mods to get a message sent to the web monkey.


 
Posted : 26/01/2012 9:40 am
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Thank goodness for iPhone browsers 😉


 
Posted : 26/01/2012 9:44 am
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yep, i'm having this problem... kills IE8 completely. iPhone can cope.

Dave

seems i've been moderated - what I said was that it copes in firefox portable, but only if the flash is in some way magically disabled.


 
Posted : 26/01/2012 9:45 am
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Yep. Its killed IE8 and Chrome.

Seems only if the flash is in another window?
Oh well, that'll keep me off the forum.


 
Posted : 26/01/2012 9:48 am
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Kills Firefox 9.01 on Windows 7 Professional x64, I have to shut it down using task manger... Please sort it out STW!

Sent from my iPad


 
Posted : 26/01/2012 9:48 am
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Sorted now. Vimeo to blame I think. If anyone still having problems, let me know.


 
Posted : 26/01/2012 9:49 am
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seems fine here now, thanks patrick


 
Posted : 26/01/2012 9:52 am
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Sorry about that folks. That'll teach me to use third party plugins. I'll build my own javascript version when I get a chance.


 
Posted : 26/01/2012 9:54 am
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Yep, works here now (which I thought I'd already posted, but seems not!). Thank you!


 
Posted : 26/01/2012 9:54 am
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Well, I've just uninstalled Flash (and Shockwave).

I didn't make the connection between the problem and STW as I have about 20 tabs open at any given moment, and needed to get Firefox stable.

I had an epiphany this morning: I'm sick to death of Flash. Between constant massive security flaws, almost daily updates, instability, better solutions being available, many (mostly Apple) products not supporting it, its prolific use in [i]really[/i] annoying adverts, and now the final straw being Adobe themselves saying they're getting rid of it, I think it was a product of its time and that time has definitely passed.

Who's with me?


 
Posted : 26/01/2012 9:58 am
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[i]Who's with me? [/i]

[treads carefully as this isn't about ad blocking]

there's a few sites I visit on my iphone where I note flash's absence but stw isn't one of them.

[/treads carefully as this isn't about ad blocking]

I'll probably stick with it for now but it can be frustrating.

[edit] lol at the swear filter substitution for the word I really typed 🙂


 
Posted : 26/01/2012 10:00 am
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Hi wwaswas,
Apart from the ads - which you can turn of as a premier user, and the Vimeo plugin - which I have now removed. Where is this site using Flash?

Am I missing something?

All our videos are HTML5 where possible.

Confused??


 
Posted : 26/01/2012 10:56 am
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Glad you're not adblocking 🙂


 
Posted : 26/01/2012 10:57 am
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Hi Patrick - sorry, what I meant was that stw works fine without flash but there's some other sites where they use it and I notice if my browser doesn't support it so I probably won't uninstall it for now.

[i]Glad you're not freeloading[/i]

I'm not allowed to comment on that 🙂


 
Posted : 26/01/2012 11:34 am
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Sorry about confusion - should slow down and read things properly.
Yes, Flash dependancy is a no-no for me. When I find time I'll try to rebuild the Vimeo sidebar as HTML5/Javascript with a Flash fallback for older browsers.


 
Posted : 26/01/2012 12:00 pm