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Internet Explorer keeps crashing because of Flash Player ActiveX!

by Gabriel Lozano-Moran 22. October 2009 04:19

I am so sick and tired of my Internet Explorer that keeps on crashing because of the Flash Player ActiveX.

For the love of God, I am talking about a fresh and clean installation of Windows 7 Ultimate x64. I can’t visit sites like http://www.youtube.com, http://www.garagetv.be … This problem is not limited to IE because as i blogged about this a while ago, the Flash Player add-in crashes the other browsers as well.

I don’t care whose problem this is but somebody needs to fix this ASAP, especially considering that Windows 7 will launch tomorrow (22nd October 2009) and I don’t think that a lot of users will be happy about the fact that can no longer visit the sites they want without having their browser crash on them.

The only possible solution I found for my problem is by having two shortcuts on my desktop:

First I close all browser instances and run uninstall_flash_player.exe, next I reboot my machine and run install_flash_player.exe. Then it works for a while and after a couple of days or sometimes hours it no longer works.

Sure, about anything can cause this, maybe it is my Norton Internet Security Suite or God knows what other software package is causing this behavior but IMHO and more likely Microsoft and Adobe should fix this problem because the Flash Player is so widely adopted that either party just cannot permit to have the end-user fix it themselves!

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Comments

10/22/2009 11:44:29 AM #

I had the same crash problem.  Hadn't look for it closely.  But after this post, I take some time and indeed.  The same problem.

What I also have is that several times when visiting a website with flash, I got the message to install adobe flash.  Especially under the 64-bit IE.

Another thing with adobe.  Run the 64-bit IE and try to open a PDF on a site.  IE will crash also here.

All are really annoying and I must say the adobe support is really bad.  Hope also it's solved today.

Sven Cipido | Reply

10/22/2009 1:37:12 PM #

Would microsoft be so evil that they do this to make their Silverlight plugin more favorable?

Tim Van Wassenhove | Reply

10/22/2009 3:04:04 PM #

I was thinking exactly the same yesterday evening but then again are they really going to take the risk now that Windows 7 is going to launch? Assume that you buy a new laptop from the "Carrefour" ;-), you arrive home and the only thing you use your new laptop for, is to look at some movie clips on YouTube. The first thing IE does as soon as you click on a movie clip is crash. As a consumer who knows nothing about Windows or Internet Explorer or hardware, you are going to return with your laptop to where you have bought it.

Gabriel Lozano-Moran | Reply

10/22/2009 6:37:46 PM #

I am using Windows 7 Ultimate and don't have any issue.
But I want to give you credit for giving me a good website www.garagetv.be

Ned | Reply

10/22/2009 9:43:40 PM #

I don't have any Flash crashes on Win7 x64 RTM. Have been using it on IE, Firefox, and Chrome for months, since RTM was available con MSDN.

By the way, are you sure you are using the correct installer? The IE/ActiveX installer is actually named "install_flash_player_ax.exe". The "install_flash_player.exe" you seem to be using is the Firefox/Safari/Opera (Chrome?) installer. They are 2 separate installers. Latest Flash version as of today is 10.0.32.18 for both.

@Sven: there is no supported 64-bit Flash plug-in, so you need to run the 32-bit IE to use Flash (64-bit processes cannot load 32-bit DLLs).

Lucas | Reply

10/22/2009 10:47:46 PM #

Yep it is the correct one, I mistyped it in my post.

Gabriel Lozano-Moran | Reply

2/23/2010 8:46:22 AM #