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How to prevent the white 'flash' on page load?

Flash Player and Safari aren't playing together?

  • Flash Player 9 doesn't work in Safari, but does work on Firefox on an Intel Mac. Help! This is Safari 3.1.4 and Firefox 3.0.1 on a MacBook running 10.4.11. With Safari, when I load any YouTube video, nothing happens-there's just a blank spot on the page where the video should be. It wasn't too long ago that Flash content was working in Safari, but I can't say with much precision since my girlfriend mainly uses this computer. With Firefox, Flash content seems to work perfectly. A combination of common sense, Adobe support forums, and Google has led me to try already, in every permutation and order: -Deleting and reinstalling Safari -Reinstallng Flash 9 -Uninstalling Flash 9 via the Adobe supplied uninstaller -Repairing the disk permissions with Disk Utility I'm out of ideas. Can anyone help?

  • Answer:

    This may sound insultingly obvious, but have you checked that plugins are enabled under Preferences/Security?

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Is there anything in /Library/InputManagers/ ? Move anything you find in there out. Often unsupported Safari "extensions" -- and if it extends a piece of software not intended to be extended it's unsupported by definition -- get put there, and often start breaking things when the OS or Safari gets an update. There are a couple of Safari ad-blockers notorious for this.

majick

Failing that, have you tried installing http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html instead of 9? It's a beta, which might not be a good thing for you, but it's also more recent, so that might be!

majick

Those are good ideas, majick, but there's unfortunately nothing in the InputManagers (actually, there's no InputManagers folder at all, which I take to mean that there aren't any). And as far as less than ideal solutions go, I think "Use Firefox for Flash" instead of "Mess around with a beta" might be better for us if it came to that.

Kwine

Hey, that does it! I didn't think to check Preferences, which is wildly dumb. Thanks malevolent!

Kwine

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