On 06/23/2012 11:15 AM, Ken Rudolph wrote: > Paul B. Gallagher wrote: >> Ken Rudolph wrote: >> >>> Win 7, SM 2.10.1 >>> >>> So, despite everything, apparently Flash got updated to 11.3 AGAIN, this >>> time without my permission. And of course all the usability of flash >>> files in SeaMonkey disappeared. This time I learned from my previous >>> mistakes. Rather than going back to the last Windows restore point (sort >>> of like killing a mosquito with a shotgun) I uninstalled version 11.3, >>> went to the Adobe site and found the previous 11.2 version (it was a >>> 159M zip file, of course, just to make things difficult). Downloaded >>> that, unzipped it and chose the "Netscape" version of the 64bit .exe >>> program, installed that...and lo, and behold, I have my Flash videos >>> back! >>> >>> Now when is somebody going to get Adobe to fix this? Obviously it still >>> is broken and this is getting really old now. I guess it doesn't help >>> that for some reason sometimes the Flash 11.3 version works for some >>> people. But I know I'm not alone...and it has happened to me TWICE! I >>> can't believe there isn't a bigger hue and cry > about this, and Adobe >>> isn't begging our forgiveness, let alone fixing the problem. >> >> I have Win 7 and SM 2.10.1, and have never had a problem with Flash (my >> current version is 11.3). So there must be something else involved. >> >> Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) >> Gecko/20120615 Firefox/13.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.10.1 > > Same. >> >> Windows 7 Pro SP1 (64-bit), fully patched. > > Same. >> >> Could you post some links to sites that don't work? > > Try YouTube, Facebook, hbogo.com, and every other video site that uses > Flash. Every single one of these sites in every browser (SeaMonkey, > Firefox and Internet Explorer) when I have Flash 11.3 installed (but not > Chrome, which doesn't have the problem). Trying to run a video just > gives a blank (either black or white depending) screen, sometimes with a > notice that "An error occurred. Please try again later" sometimes just > blank. The problem disappears with Flash 11.2 installed; then all Flash > sites work, no problem. >> >> How about a list of your add-ons? > > I don't think I have any add-ons. At least none that I have purposely > added. >> >> If there's something peculiar about your setup, that would explain why >> there's no "hue and cry" -- because the rest of us aren't suffering. > > From previous threads (started when hbogo.com wouldn't approximately a > week ago) I know that others have this problem too (but not everybody). > Robert Kaiser responded that Adobe knows of the problem and is working > on it. I've also read elsewhere that both Mozilla and Adobe are working > together to fix this but can't find the solution. I'm glad for you that > you don't have this problem. >
The solution was found according to this news article. http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Adobe-updates-Flash-Player-11-3-to-fix-Firefox-crashing-problem-1623783.html -- Thunderbird (16.0a1) Daily | openSUSE 12.1 | KDE 4.8.4 Practice Safe Computing. Create user accounts for your OS. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
