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Within the last few days, something must have updated that is causing ALL my Flash Player streams to stutter miserably while playing in either Chrome or Safari. This inludes sites like YouTube, Pandora, Grooveshark, Spotify, etc.
I'm running Mac OS X Version 10.8.5 on a MacBook Air 1.3Ghz Intel Core i5, 8GB 1600 MHz DDR3.
Adobe Flash version is the latest version.
The stutter is an infrequent clicking that sounds like my speakers are being destroyed. Strictly a Flash problem because all local music and non-flash players play audio perfectly.
Please help or participate if you're having a similiar problem.
Best,
MM

Hello,
I use:
- a MacBook medio 2009
- OSX Mavericks (10.9.1)
- Latest Google Chrome version 33.0.1750.117
- Latest version of Flash Player at the moment (12.0.0.70)
I did the following in Chrome to get around the problem (in chrome://plugins/):
If I remember good, I've had the audio stuttering problem about half a year, a year, something like that. I'm not using my MacBook daily but when I played some music for example with YouTube , It annoyed me a lot that the music stuttered when I opened a new tab in Chrome or when I was typing when I Googled something. Also when loading a page or clicking a link the stuttering occured.
I tested If the problem occured when my laptop was plugged or unplugged but that didn't alter the behaviour.
I guess the problem just occures when there are two or more flash-plugin entries in the Chrome plug-in tab enabled. Why would you need two Flash Players to play a video or audio etc. anyway? I guess it's just some conflict between the two plug-ins but I'm just a simple guy that does a wild guess.
I hope you can do something with this info
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