My laptop is giving me fits. It's an HP running windows 8.1, I didn't want to run 8.1 but it didn't give me the option to not upgrade like before. I liked 8 fine, never had any problems with it and didn't want to change. But the deed is done and now it might as well be a big paperweight.
So last week I started getting shockwave flash is busy errors on YouTube. They progressively got worse and then I started getting them on other pages too. The only sites I don't have a problem with are GRM and Craigslist. Every single other site I go to I get the errors.
The computer freezes for 10-15seconds then I get the popup saying shockwave flash is busy or unresponsive. I can choose to ignore or stop the script. No matter what I choose it stays frozen for 15-30 more seconds then everything works. Until I need to change the page or watch the next video, then it starts all over again.
What I've done to correct it;
Scanned with malwarebyts. Nothing found.
Scanned with AVG. Nothing found.
Uninstalled/Reinstall Adobe Shockwave Flash. No difference
Uninstall/reinstall Mozilla Firefox. No difference.
What do I need to do? I can't find anything else that has been suggested that works. I didn't have any issues with windows 8 this all started last week when I went to 8.1
Try disabling hardware acceleration:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/adobe-flash-plugin-has-crashed
(scroll down)
Quick fix for immediate aggravation reduction - install the Flashblock plugin for Firefox, so flash objects won't run until you click on them. This is a good idea anyway.
or it's time to reload windows
mad_machine wrote:
or it's time to load linux
FTFY
Seriously though, I'd go with Gameboy's suggestion, but I'd also check with HP's website for driver and other updates for your system. If that doesn't work, stepping back to a previous version of the driver might be worth a shot as well.
Adobe Flash has capabilities to leverage your video card and that requires a stable set of video drivers. That said, Adobe Flash is also huge piece of poo and each subsequent update has caused odd problems on my systems for quite a while now.
what browser program are you using?
In reply to madmallard:
Firefox.
I'll try the suggested fixes tonight.
GameboyRMH wrote:
Try disabling hardware acceleration:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/adobe-flash-plugin-has-crashed
(scroll down)
Quick fix for immediate aggravation reduction - install the Flashblock plugin for Firefox, so flash objects won't run until you click on them. This is a good idea anyway.
I did as you suggested last night. I watched a couple videos without issues until I had to pause one, it froze again when I hit play. I'll play around with it some more tonight to see if it's going to still be a problem.
