Hey All!
A few days ago, using my 32 bit XP workstation, I started getting the little message on various IE 8 pages that a new version of Flash needed to be installed so the page could show its "groovy flash stuff".
Well, typically when this happens I go ahead and click to update it. Or, the Flash updater would come up when I log in...
But, this time, instead of playing nice and doing the update, when I click on the little bar to update, it then would make Internet Explorer freeze up! And I don't mean just that one tab or window, but I mean eventually every IE window would freeze up and I'd have to shut it all down using Task Manager. Uggh!
So, for the short term I started using Chrome for stuff needing the Flash. One example of that is getting onto the Canon USA home page -- no go, or sometimes with my Comcast email, or various other sites. So, while I sorted it out I have several instances of Chrome running while I still use IE for my "known safe" stuff -- POTN, PBase, Facebook, my financial sites all worked fine.
Well, just to let you know, if you have seen this problem or someone pipes up about it, doing a standalone install from the Adobe Flash Update page runs just fine. I'm now "fixed"
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I have yet to update to IE9, I'd imagine that it might not have the same problem.
May laptop is running IE8 on Win7 64 and doesn't have the problem.
So I guess it's some combination of IE8 on XP that has the problem!
At least now I can open stuff without getting shut down!
