Shockwave Flash

Evans Electric · Mar 21, 2014

So, what the hell is Shockwave Flash ?

And some days , like today, a message keeps coming up saying it has crashed , this appeared to be slowing Youtube down .

Why do these things constantly keep crashing ? Popping up on the Forum too .

steptoe · Mar 21, 2014

what browser are you using Deke?

firefox seems to be having issues recently, some sites wont work properly at all for me,

and Ive had to use Chrome to use them properly, might be worth a try for you.

SPECIAL LOCATION · Mar 21, 2014

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_wave

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Gordon

so it MUST be a disturbing comic character...?

:coat

Steve3948 · Mar 21, 2014

How old is your machine Deke, what spec is it.

Marvo · Mar 21, 2014

Evans Electric said:
So, what the hell is Shockwave Flash ?

It's probably in the form of a browser plug-in who's primary function is to allow hackers, the NSA and script kiddies unlimited access into your PC and as a secondary function it allows various graphics and animated advertising banners to annoy you whilst you're viewing web pages.It is the benchmark in sloppily written code, there's been a long list of security flaws with it even to this day which allow malicious code injection amongst other things. Every time Adobe patch a hole at least three new ones appear. I hate it with a passion, it's just a virus waiting to happen and it's the main reason I always run my browser sandboxed.

Looking on the bright side Adobe should be proud of themselves, it's been a full month and two days since their last round of Flash 'critical' updates. I'm sure Adobe will have you believe that this is because it's fixed and secure but I guarantee you it's because they're now scrambling to patch the latest gaping security holes in Acrobat. It might take a large number of monkeys and typewriters to recreate the works of Shakespeare by chance but it would only require about three to come up with a zero-day Flash virus.

UK-Fire · Apr 10, 2014

Evans Electric said:
So, what the hell is Shockwave Flash ?

And some days , like today, a message keeps coming up saying it has crashed , this appeared to be slowing Youtube down .

Why do these things constantly keep crashing ? Popping up on the Forum too .

depends a lot on what browser you use. on most browsers, it is an addition plugin, but with chrome it is integrated, and in my experience, significantly more reliable.

firefox was terrible with flash last time i used it, but that was some time ago (a couple of years maybe?).

you can force youtube to display in html5 instead, which is a lot more secure and doesnt need flash to be installed. this checks to see for html5 compatibility: https://www.youtube.com/html5?gl=GB

using this and google chrome, i havent had to install flash on any computer i use for a number of years now.