Flash Player seems to suck

I'm just coming to realize how badly the Flash Player
(seemingly all versions) use up cpu. I'm seriously considering
disabling this player. I guess I wonder why you guys don't seem to
care about it. It's one very piggy app. I'm just glad I don't use
Flash in my sites. Unless this problem is handled I imagine Flash
could become "unused".

Interesting that you say this. I have only had problems with
CPU usage and Flash once or twice in the 8 years I have been
working with it. It always seems to me that the problem is not with
the plug-in, but with the developers when something like this comes
about. The plug-in itself is very fast and efficient. Where are you
finding these flash applications that "use up cpu"?

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Hi oliviay29570750,
"flash player HD" is not a valid Adobe product. Flash Player is just known as Flash Player, not Flash Player HD. Can you please post a screenshot (How to post a screenshot in the forum) of the pop-up message and the page you go to when you click on the link (including the URL of the page)?
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Well, is there any Adobe programs you don't have? LOL, maybe I should have asked that:-) Thanks for the info. It is revealing and curious as well.
You have the Adobe Flash Player plugin (non-IE browsers-FF), but not the Shockwave Flash Control in your browser plugins.
You don't have the Adobe Flash Player ActiveX in Add/Remove, but you DO have the Shockwave Flash Object Control in your IE browser. Hmmmm How or why that happened, I don't know. Some glitch when Uninstalling/Installing FP, I would guess.
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Do the same with FF, plugins, addons and extensions.
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Flash player seems to download, but doesn't actually "work".

I have tried downloading flash player SEVERAL times to achieve the same result each time. I begin download process, halfway through, it tells me to close out internet explorer and i do. The download process continues to 100%. I click finish. I attempt to watch a video on Youtube, for example, just to have it tell me to download flash player again. It's been quite frustrating...
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Hello,
Welcome to Adobe Forums.
You can download Adobe Flash Player offline installer from this document :
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I don't know what happened but the player keeps turning into that, its a bit ugly and annoying...
It only happen on youtube, really. every time I try to view a video that's not on a created playlist, the video player turns into that. I tried testing it on twitch, vimeo and so on and so far it's only really messed with youtube.
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Well, after hours of trying to figure it out I gave up and un-installed and re-installed that last verion of Adobe Flash Player and now it seems I can play games again in Messenger. Everything else had been fine just that. I can only figure it was because it was having a hard time updating the first time and took me 3 tries. So even though it said it was installed, apparently it wasn't done correctly.
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Flash Player Installer Is Atrocious

Flash Player Installer absolutely sucks! It is without doubt the worst program I have to interact with on a regular basis.
First, you have to download the installer. 17 Mb!!! Talk about bloatware! I guess cable modem users might not complain, but is that really close to 100% of all people now?
Then, once the installer is downloaded, which usually takes about 5 minutes, installing the program takes only a few seconds. Does something seem disproportionate here?
Then, the thing I hate the most, is that you try to trick me into enabling silent automatic updates. Why can't you leave my settings as they are? But no, I have to remember to opt OUT. Every time.
The next thing I hate even more, but which is part of Flash Player itself and not the installer, is that, if I forget to change the check box, and only see it after I have hit the Done button and the dialog window is closing, I can't just go to Control Panel (I have a Windows system) and fix it.
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All this takes at least 10 minutes of completely unnecessary time.
Today, after you had tricked me into enabling silent automatic updates and I got to that web page, it told me that the animation required a new tool and I needed a new version of Flash Player. Even though I had just finished updating it not five minutes before!!!
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All this wasted about half an hour of my valuable time. For nothing!!!
Yes, I wasted more time writing this, but I am so angry I really wanted to express it. This entire experience today was so infuriating that I seriously considered just uninstalling Flash Player altogether.
I am a professional software designer, and I'm telling you, if I ever designed a piece of software as bad as Flash Player Installer, I would be fired. And I think your designers ought to be fired too.
ALL RIGHT, THIS IS THE LAST STRAW!
As I was proofreading this post, my firewall pops up that Adobe Flash Player Updater wants to access the Internet. So all this rigmarole I had to go through didn't even work!!!
I just told the firewall to permanantly block any access from Flash Player Updater to the internet. I won't ever get any updates, but I am past the point of caring.
Once again, I think the entire installer team ought to be fired.

People like you are entertainment for those of us who actually know what we're doing.
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Adobe flash player crashes or hangs!

Ok, so whilst using Firefox, lately adobe flash player has been crashing upon opening a YouTube video. This could be when i click a video and the new page opens and freezes, or when I actually get to the video but it then crashes. Alongside this, sometimes the videos are delayed to start, as in the video starts bufferng but doesn't actually start playing until later.
I've tried many proposed solutions but none seem to have worked
(Tried:
New profile
Clean Install
Clear cache,cookies, etc..
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Protected mode (for FF and Flash)
Virus scans (had nothing bad that was scanned)
Disable/ Enable hardware acceleration
Updating Flash (i'm using the latest version... 15.0.0.233)
Alongside this, i've tried using Chrome which also gives similar results, crash, hanging or the video delay at the start.
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all the plugins i have on FF.
http://i.gyazo.com/bcbc3ca757f689329dec7856133ca5b5.png
http://i.gyazo.com/accf672e084558252ee8d33a1380aedd.png
http://i.gyazo.com/664debded019dad5a62e85dbca7d0b02.png
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     Thanks for your response.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Video
Flash Video is a container file format used to deliver video over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player (initially produced by Macromedia) versions 6–10. … There are two different video file formats defined by Adobe Systems and supported in Adobe Flash Player: FLV and F4V. The audio and video data within FLV files are encoded in the same way as they are within SWF files. The latter F4V file format is based on the ISO base media file format and is supported starting with Flash Player 9 update 3.[1][2]
The format has quickly established itself as the format of choice for embedded video on the web. Notable users of the Flash Video format include YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo! Video, metacafe, Reuters.com, and many other news providers.
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I had the Antivirus8 problem this week. Malwarebytes seems to have uninstalled it. I have also run Eset Online Scanner and Microsoft malicious remover tool. They all now say I'm clean. But my flash player no longer works. I have turned off my AVG 9.0 (why didn't it catch the virus!!), and have downloaded the flash uninstaller and the installer. Ran them both, rebooting inbetween. flash player seems to install, but when I go to the adobe test site i get the red x instead of the video showing that the flash player is working. Online sites that require flash player do not work either.
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It is a good idea but some Japanese can not do system restore(have no point of system restore).
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Since Gamers and those who watch online videos are having trouble with Adobe Flash Player 10, why am I, who does neither, having the beast crash all the time?

Adobe Flash Player seems to wait until I am near the end of the Yahoo comics section before it crashes, but not always, sometimes it just seems to have a mind of its own and crashes indiscriminately.

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OK. I also have the issue with Flash Player seeming to download and install but not work.   I checked the activex addons and it shows up. I can't find a directory anywhere even after changing the settings to show all.
And if this is not annoying enough I have the same problem w shockwave.
I realize that w W7 I'm missing something but with all the reorganization I can't find things.
Suggestions please.
I did find in control panel a selection called default programs and under that a selection which is associate file extentions w programs
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Well I am not sure if I have progress or regression.... I deinstalled it all. then reinstalled shockwave. It said I needed to reboot to complete the install. I let it.... no shockwave. I went back out to the installation and tried again and it says I need to reboot to complete the install. I've gone round this loop 4 times.   I checked in the registry for anything adobe and only found reader.
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Message was edited by: AnnoyedInOH
well after 3-4 reboots it says it's installed... again... but still does not work. I found another thread here that said it should be under windows/system32/Macromed/ ... something..   I don't have the directory Macro anything directory.
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First. IE has entries for the flash player and shockwave. The Java level I have is JAVA 6 update 14
Second. Both the flash player and shockwave are installed according to Programs and Features on the control panel.
Third: There is no Macromed directory under system23. I did find one under: c:\windows\SysWOW64. The Macromed directory does have a Flash directory with 4 files. Flash10d.ocx, FlashUtil10d.exe, an install log and uninstall_activeX.exe
Fourth. The control panel has a selection called: Default programs. when I click on that I see a selection that allows me to associate a file type with a program. In that list .swf is not associated w anything.    Since .swf files are not associated w the flash player should I associate them with the flash player?
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