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Please help!
I am using FF 28, Widows 8, and Flash Player 13.
I keep getting this error message:
Warning: Unresponsive Plugin; Shockwave flash may be busy, or it may have stopped responding.

everyday about 2 or 3 times I get this on my windows 8! Firefox only solution seems to be to disable the warning and wait 45 seconds for it to be acknowledged.
I have tried deleting and reinstalling and nothing works.
Dies anyone have any advice?
Thanks

 

Hi barcann, Why not update FF to 29.0.1 and see if you still get the warning?
Did you apply the Plugin from FF's Addons site? Neil.

 

Not sure what you have reinstalled, but are you up to date on Flash? I know you said 13, but it is up to 13.0.0.214 now. You can find out your version here:

http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

Or you can go through the FF addons window, plugin check link.

 

I have the latest flash version and I dl it directly from Adobe Flash player site.
I will upgrade FF to 29 and see if that solves the problem
thanks

 

I have upgraded FF to FF 29 and the same thing keeps happening..

 

Well, the only thing I can tell you is that you aren't the only one:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/957423

That thread got a lot of people chiming in. The mod locked the thread, and posted a list of possible solutions at the top of the thread.

Every time this comes up in the mozillazine forums, the common response is that it is a flash problem, not a mozilla FF problem. That's not much to go on, sorry....

The first solution in that thread I linked to, is simply to reset Firefox. This will preserve passwords and bookmarks, and history, but remove all extensions, themes, search engines, and (from what I can see) security options that you have modified. Read that page before you do that, but that might work.

Before doing that, you might simply restart FF with addons disabled. Surf for a length of time so that you know if it fixes the problem. If no flash problem, then you can then start sorting through extensions..... just a suggestion. Its quicker and easier than a full fledged reset.

 

Very interesting link Paul. I have 3 HD's on this comp with W8.1, W7Pro, Vista Business and have installed the Adobe update on all without problem. The old XP Pro PC has updated without problem as well.
I have always installed updates without using the comp until the update has finished completely - never had a problem - works for me. Neil.

 

I don't ever recall Flash breaking on my computer. I've never had auto updates. I will do a plugin check within FF, or simply hear of an update in the forums I frequent. Ever since the days of Win98, when Real player and Quick Time and Yahoo this and that and every other program had autoupdater utilities that slowed the bootup time to a crawl, I've been rather paranoid about that.

Not that I am a big fan of flash, its just that its never given me serious headaches.

 

Thanks
well, the problem persists for me,and I have tried many fixes..nothing seems to work. Maybe it's time for Chrome?
or better yet, a flash substitute? is there such a thing?

 

Shumway, but I don't think its ready for prime time. If you are just watching flash videos on youtube, you might try html5 (I haven't done it, but supposedly there are options to tweak that allow you to watch video on YT w/o flash).

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/993679

I dont' know if the FF tweak works all across the web, or just on youtube.

 

Thanks for the help. I am still struggling with the same problem. Only thing I haven't tried is resetting FF now.
so I guess that is what I will have to do.