Shockwave & Chrome crashing

[szekely]

Is anyone else having issues with Shockwave and with the Chrome browser today?
I'm doing some half-hearted googling and checking computer forums today, but I thought I'd post here since I'll probably have this forum open for most of the day today.

Using Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.8)
Chrome is up to date: Version 21.0.1180.79
I get a message at the top that "Shockwave has crashed." Additionally, the whole browser keeps crashing about every half hour.

Cheers.

[Jayfar]

Check whether you have the latest Flash plugin installed. Go to System Preferences -> Flash -> Advanced to check for updates. I hadn't been experiencing crashes, but I only fire up Chrome occasionally. I hadn't seen any crashes recently in Safari (and I'm also on MacOS X 10.6.8). I just now updated my Flash from 11.3.300.265 to 11.3.300.271.

[szekely]

Thanks!
Yeah, I forgot to mention that I was prompted to update Flash on this computer this morning, and did so. I'd been out of town for several days.
I wonder if the update is the cause of the problem.

[BarryG]

I have this problem too. One thing I found is that Chrome has a Flash plugin built in, so if you have Flash installed separately too, they can conflict. Go to chrome://plugins/ and expand details (top right). If you see two Flash plugins, try disabling one.

[szekely]

I have this problem too. One thing I found is that Chrome has a Flash plugin built in, so if you have Flash installed separately too, they can conflict. Go to chrome://plugins/ and expand details (top right). If you see two Flash plugins, try disabling one.

Very useful info- thanks! You know, I'd always assumed that there would be a conflict one day between Chrome's plug-in and the other two browsers I use (or rather, all the flash stuff I downloaded for those browsers). Flash was working fine on my linux netbook, where I don't think I have Adobe stuff installed. Just Chrome.

Went to chrome://plugins/ which was handy in itself, because I saw and disabled all kinds of things I don't want. Move Media Player, Silverlight, etc.
Lo and behold, NO versions of flash were installed because of a botched attempt to eliminate duplicate plug-ins earlier this morning. I had been following instructions I found on youtube. Of course, the youtube video wouldn't play with no flash working, but the author put the instructions in plain text in the video's description.

After reading your post, I copied a back-up of "Flash Player Plug-in for Chrome.plugin" back into the Library, and it started working again. So, I went from duplicate plug-ins to zero, and then to one. :-)

[Jayfar]

Hmm, you can also go to chrome://flash/

It shows I have 2 copies, one not used.

About Flash

Google Chrome 21.0.1180.79 ()
OS Mac OS X
Flash plugin 11.3.300.271 /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/Versions/21.0.1180.79/Google Chrome Framework.framework/Internet Plug-Ins/Flash Player Plugin for Chrome.plugin
Flash plugin 11.3.300.271 /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Flash Player.plugin (not used)
--- Crash data ---
crash id 92abde0e6432bbb6 Friday, July 6, 2012 12:55:33 AM
--- GPU information ---
--- GPU driver, more information ---
Vendor Id 0x10de
Device Id 0x0655
Driver vendor
Driver version 1.6.36
Driver date
Pixel shader version 1.20
Vertex shader version 1.20
GL version 2.1
GL_VENDOR NVIDIA Corporation
GL_RENDERER NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OpenGL Engine
GL_VERSION 2.1 NVIDIA-1.6.36
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[Jayfar]

Also see: chrome://chrome-urls/

List of Chrome URLs

chrome://appcache-internals
chrome://blob-internals
chrome://bookmarks
chrome://cache
chrome://chrome-urls
chrome://crashes
chrome://credits
chrome://dns
chrome://downloads
chrome://extensions
chrome://flags
chrome://flash
chrome://gpu-internals
chrome://histograms
chrome://history
chrome://ipc
chrome://inspect
chrome://media-internals
chrome://memory
chrome://net-internals
chrome://view-http-cache
chrome://newtab
chrome://omnibox
chrome://plugins
chrome://policy
chrome://predictors
chrome://profiler
chrome://quota-internals
chrome://settings
chrome://stats
chrome://sync-internals
chrome://tasks
chrome://terms
chrome://tracing
chrome://version
chrome://print
For Debug

The following pages are for debugging purposes only. Because they crash or hang the renderer, they're not linked directly; you can type them into the address bar if you need them.

chrome://crash
chrome://kill
chrome://hang
chrome://shorthang
chrome://gpuclean
chrome://gpucrash
chrome://gpuhang

[Jayfar]

For serious geeks, you can actually find hyperlinks to deep inside the C++ source code tree on code.google.com via the profiler built into chrome.

chrome://profiler/