# Am I the only one getting a lot of shockwave crashes? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 3, 2013, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-getting-a-lot-of-shockwave-crashes/651886 "2013-03-03T04:03:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-getting-a-lot-of-shockwave-crashes/651886/1 "2013-03-03T04:03:50Z")
Its been happening a lot more recently, mostly when I am on this site. Am I infected or is there something wrong with the site? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-getting-a-lot-of-shockwave-crashes/651886/2 "2013-03-03T05:09:54Z")
I don’t understand. The site is basically just text. Where is the Shockwave content that’s crashing on your system? ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-getting-a-lot-of-shockwave-crashes/651886/3 "2013-03-03T05:49:21Z")
Dear Charter Member Dewey Finn: we lesser posters 🙂 have to deal with ads, which I’m thinking are the problem. Maybe the OP just needs to re-install Shockwave. ---
**Author:** ![R3d\_Anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-getting-a-lot-of-shockwave-crashes/651886/4 "2013-03-03T16:02:16Z")
I got a shockwave crash a few minutes ago, actually. But I haven’t experienced one in a long time actually. The one I just had is my first one in a while. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-getting-a-lot-of-shockwave-crashes/651886/5 "2013-03-03T19:29:56Z")
What ads? Some of us have Adblock (as well as Flashblock and NoScript) installed as Firefox addons. ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-getting-a-lot-of-shockwave-crashes/651886/6 "2013-03-03T19:34:14Z")
For you Firefox users, there’s “Flashblock”. Flash sucks, it uses ungodly amounts of processor cycles. I’ve been killing it since before I signed up at this site. And most of the malware is delivered via Flash ads. Kills two birds with one stone, and you can _still_ go see the simple secret for losing weight that was discovered by the single mom in _your actual_ town! What’s not to love? [sub]Or: Men: Restore your hair in as little as 4 weeks[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2013, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-getting-a-lot-of-shockwave-crashes/651886/7 "2013-03-05T04:31:36Z")
I dunno what I’m getting, but, occasionally, when I’m not logged in as a user, but am still in guest mode, I’ll get a long wait for a forum jump, sometimes followed by a browser notice that an application has ceased functioning, with a question about whether I’d like to close it. I’m browsing in Firefox, and I don’t know what the app is that’s freezing. I’ve also noticed that, when I click on a post to respond to it, and get the sign-in screen – user name and password – I don’t get re-directed back to the post in question, but get a refresh of the sign-in screen again…and again…and again, until I press the “press here if browser does not redirect you” option. Figure the hamsters are getting fussy or something… ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2013, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-getting-a-lot-of-shockwave-crashes/651886/8 "2013-03-05T14:54:16Z")
Shockwave is still a thing? Huh. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-getting-a-lot-of-shockwave-crashes/651886/9 "2013-03-06T02:27:33Z")
Same thing happens when I am logged in as a member. I’ll be at the main menu level, and click to go to the IMHO forum…and there is a VERY long wait. But if I press the same button again, sometimes it speeds things up and I go right there. I figure some background app is running slow… Ah, well, price of doing business in the information age! ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2013, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-getting-a-lot-of-shockwave-crashes/651886/10 "2013-03-16T02:40:44Z")
I use google chrome. Anything for that or should I be using firefox?