Google Chrome is the browser by myself because it is fast, stable and roughly reliable even from a security point of view. However, it is not a 100% completely smooth and problem-free program. One of the most frequent and annoying is that related to Adobe's Shockwave Flash plugin which in several cases crashes and does not allow you to correctly view some websites or parts of them. This is a problem of the poor quality of this indispensable but problematic plugin of which I have already written some guides to solve problems with Youtube videos or other flash sites. UPDATE: Flash is no longer enabled in Chrome, see here how to enable Flash in Chrome
Usually, with Google Chrome, Flash does not crash the browser but the parts of the open web pages that use the plugin. They turn black and a message appears at the top with Shockwave Flash has crashed . Sometimes Chrome also pops up a pop-up where it says if you want to close unresponsive tabs. In more serious cases, however, Chrome crashes and is asked to restart it by restoring the session.
Fortunately there is a simple solution to the ShockWave Flash problem on Chrome .
It cannot solve all the evils of Adobe, but it should at least prevent the plug-in from interrupting Internet browsing.
Only those who suffer from this problem and often see the crash message can make a configuration change by disabling the Chrome internal plugin.
If Chrome can't make the distinction between the two systems (the own Flash and the Asdobe one that is installed on the other browsers), it gets confused and tries to use both installations, causing the crash.
Open google Chrome and type in the address bar the command " about: plugins ".
The page is a list of all the plugins installed. Scroll down, find Flash and check if there are multiple versions installed. If so, it says that there are 2 files or more so you have to press the + button at the top right of the page to see the details. To resolve the Shockwave Flash Crashed error, you need to disable the internal installation, the one found in the AppData folder of Google Chrome. The file should be called pepflashplayer.dll . Be careful not to disable, if found, the Shockwave for director plugin which is another thing. In the end, restart your browser and any errors should have been resolved.
Without disabling anything, the best solution to ShockWave Flash crashes is to activate the click to play of the plugins on Chrome to load the elements selectively, when necessary.
