News - Chrome fully sandboxes Flash, reduces crashes by 20 per cent

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Chrome 21 brings secure sandboxing to Flash in Windows, runs better and faster.

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Must say the chrome beta channel is running very nicely on Windows 8 rtm, none of the crashes on flash pages that I experienced on the previews. Also just using the included ati drivers which seem pretty sturdy so far.

Sadly, Chrome, as a result of Flash (and probably related to this new sandbox), is broken in the latest official build.

The vast majority, if not all Flash videos, Youtube included, refuse to play sound and video cuts out after a few seconds. The supposed fix is to go down to 2 channels of sound, but I've had calls from others with only 2 speakers, so feck knows.

There is a fix by temporarily disabling one of the Flash plugins, but Google don't recommend it. Personally, I'm just using Firefox again.

Edit: Ooh, update. Flash videos work again. :)

I'm not sure if this'll help me; if i'm watching a Flash vid and try to fullscreen it, no matter what the quality (on Youtube, say) usually a second later the screen'll flash, and explorer.exe will restart but with Aero disabled, and a little pop-up from the taskbar saying that the ATI display drivers had stopped working but have now recovered. It happens all the time but only ever with Flash, and i'm using Chrome. I hope there is a fix coming.

The update fixed the lack of sound and video stopping, but now the audio is out of sync. Grr.

Article doesn't mention that as of late Chrome and Flash haven't played well together at all. I've had to disable the internal Flash Player and use the external Windows one.

I've been using Chrome for years now, and I honestly can't remember having many problems with Flash with it in the past 18 months or so.

To anyone who is still having problems with flash on youtube, you can use this link to change the player to html5 instead of flash. (I wish that YT would use html5 as the standard, but this should work until google irons out the kinks.)

Unfortunately this will not solve any issues for other websites using flash player for video playback.

http://www.youtube.com/html5/

(Credit goes to "kalniel" who originally posted this in the thread "Why does Youtube make my grpahics card so hot?")

Click to flash is the way forward...

Having also had my fair share of Flash related crashes and/or CPU hogs, it'll be interesting to see whether this helps!