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Can't watch videos online - gets "loading the player " and nothing happens

I'm having a problem trying to see sports highlights. On chrome and safari, I get the message "loading the player..." while nothing happens. I've tried to reinstall the flash player, chrome, and ...
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Why chrome doesn't (seem to) need Flash while Firefox and Safari do?

I have a newly installed OS (OS X Yosemite) I downloaded the Chrome and Firefox browsers, in addition to the pre-installed Safari browser. Now flash videos work fine with Chrome, but both Safari and ...
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Can you fake flash?

I am trying to access sites that are powered by flash, but they keep hitting me with popups that tell me to install flash before I can even do non-flash things. I refuse to use flash, Is there a ...
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SWF file only plays an abbreviated version when not accessed through an internet connection on Safari- How can this version be saved for offline use?

I have a young niece who has gotten hooked on online flash games but has no internet connection at home. I've been trying to save them on a hard drive for her to access offline, and so far have been ...
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OS X Lion Safari Flash plugin issues

I'm using OS X fully updated and patched, along with Safari. A few weeks back I started noticing a Flash problem: Every time I load a youtube video, the CPU consumption goes up to 100% on one core and ...
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Is there any way to force Safari to use a different UserAgent on a per site basis?

Background: I use Safari 5.1.3 on Lion 10.7.3 on my 13" MacBook Air. I don't have Flash installed and have no intention of installing it. I frequently visit the BBC News site, which has a lot of video ...
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How to Disable / Uninstall Adobe Flash from Windows Safari

How can I disable Adobe Flash from Safari - but not my other browsers ?? I can't even believe this... but - in complete opposite to the iPad - it looks like Apple did not make a way to disable Adobe ...
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Safari freezing due to Flash

I'm having a bit of bother with Flash Player 10.1 on Mac OS X 10.6.4 using Safari 5.0.2 and Firefox 3.6.10. In the last couple of days, every time I visit GMail with the Flash plug-in installed in /...
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Flash plugin locks up Firefox, Chrome and Safari behind a corporate proxy, IE6 works fine

At work I am forced by corporate policy to use IE6. Obviously this is not so good so I use FF for most of my browsing. However there is a problem once I have installed the Flash plug-in - FF locks ...
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New Safari crashes with Flash plugin, for me only?

I have Safari 4.0.2. Ever since I did the upgrade to OSX 10.5.8, it's been crashing several times an hour. After viewing all of my installed plug ins, deleting them, and reinstalling, I have found the ...
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Does Safari 4 crash protection actually work for anybody?

Apple touted Safari 4 as having a crash protection feature (similar to that provided by Google Chrome), wherein the crash of a browser plugin (ahem, Flash) would not bring down the whole browser, but ...
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