Avatar for Username

Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

This thread was archived. Please ask a new question if you need help.

flash player crashes my mac, older non-crashing version does not work in FF4, can I force FF4 to use older version?

  • 1 reply
  • 13 have this problem
  • 1 view
  • Last reply by rainwolf

rainwolf
rainwolf
more options

I have a late 2007 mbp 3,1. Playing flash video *always* crashes my macbook pro, not immediately but after a few flash player clips. It does not crash the browser but the whole system, and I get a gray screen telling me in different languages I need to hold down the power button to turn off and restart my mac. I have spent hours trying to track down why this happened but to no avail. The *only workaround* I know is to use the flash player marked flashplayer10r45_2. I have tried all other versions and even excitedly all beta versions, but this problem remains unresolved. And now Firefox 4 won't even accept this version anymore.

- Is anyone else experiencing this? -- Do you have a workaround? (one to force FF4 to use the old player or to prevent crashes with any player)

I have a late 2007 mbp 3,1. Playing flash video *always* crashes my macbook pro, not immediately but after a few flash player clips. It does not crash the browser but the whole system, and I get a gray screen telling me in different languages I need to hold down the power button to turn off and restart my mac. I have spent hours trying to track down why this happened but to no avail. The *only workaround* I know is to use the flash player marked flashplayer10r45_2. I have tried all other versions and even excitedly all beta versions, but this problem remains unresolved. And now Firefox 4 won't even accept this version anymore. - Is anyone else experiencing this? -- Do you have a workaround? (one to force FF4 to use the old player or to prevent crashes with any player)

All Replies (1)

rainwolf
rainwolf Question owner
more options

I seem to have solve my issue and wrote it up here in a blogpost

Long story short: I use coolbook, and my settings worked for all programs under heavy loads, but not for flash content, I think that switching cpu frequencies went a little too fast and the cpu voltage switching could not keep up, but this is just a guess. I solved it by increasing the voltages for the upper frequencies a bit and now my computer does not crash anymore when playing flash. The flash plugin does crash occasionally, but I consider this normal since I have never seen it crashing on its own without taking down the whole system with it.

I hope this helps (anybody).