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New s/MS/Adobe/
Flash being a crashy pile of shit is Adobe's fault.
New Flash should just DIE.
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New Yup
New Flash in the browser, sure.
It's a very nice mobile development platform, though.
Regards,
-scott
Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
New Them too. Still, it's MS's OS...
New ***COUGH***COUGH***
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New Robitussin may help with that. ;-)
Explain it to me like I'm stupid. Thanks.
New Got a "Z-Pack" earlier this week.
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New Re: Them too. Still, it's MS's OS...
App crashes are not the problem of the OS vendor.
New True but...
Yeah, I've got a weak argument, but bear with me.

The error/crash only occurs when Taskbar Shuffle is used with Flash.

It seems to happen with Firefox, Chrome, and IE8 (dunno if TS is always installed nor whether it always involves Flash, but those seem to be the most common intersections).

It seems to me to be an API issue. The API is either written in such a way that it's easy for Flash to stomp on shared memory used by TS, or Adobe is trying to do something it shouldn't.

MS has control over the Win32 API. The OS controls what is legal or not.

Either MS's API needs to be tightened up to prevent Flash apps from stomping on someone else's shared memory, or Adobe needs to be slapped down for doing things outside the standard API.

This problem has been going on for years. Lots of people have this trouble, but the actual solution is very hard to find and not widely known. It shouldn't still be happening.

Adobe is the logical person to fix this, but if the OS and API were better then it wouldn't show up on the user's desktop at all. It would have been caught in the build process AFAICS.

And if MS hadn't broken their taskbar functionality over the years, then TS wouldn't be needed...

FWIW.

Cheers,
Scott.
New Re: True but...
The OS is probably doing the right thing here, but the apps in question aren't dealing with their situation gracefully (and OMG my IE10 textbox has got autocorrect >high fives MS<), instead crashing.
New Snark
High five, MS has caught up to FirFox from (at least) five years ago! WOOOO!
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Drew
     Solution to Flash "Error 5" crash. - (Another Scott) - (18)
         You're hating the wrong company - (lincoln) - (16)
             ? It's Winders (Microsoft) that is annoying me. - (Another Scott) - (15)
                 s/MS/Adobe/ - (pwhysall) - (11)
                     Flash should just DIE. -NT - (folkert) - (2)
                         Yup -NT - (pwhysall)
                         Flash in the browser, sure. - (malraux)
                     Them too. Still, it's MS's OS... -NT - (Another Scott) - (7)
                         ***COUGH***COUGH*** -NT - (folkert) - (2)
                             Robitussin may help with that. ;-) -NT - (Another Scott) - (1)
                                 Got a "Z-Pack" earlier this week. -NT - (folkert)
                         Re: Them too. Still, it's MS's OS... - (pwhysall) - (3)
                             True but... - (Another Scott) - (2)
                                 Re: True but... - (pwhysall) - (1)
                                     Snark - (drook)
                 Looks like the Shuffler crew is to blame - (scoenye) - (2)
                     Thanks. - (Another Scott) - (1)
                         Ummmm.... - (folkert)
         ***COUGH*** -NT - (folkert)

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