Getting IE to work again

Yes.

This is the glitch I was having on Firefox and not IE.

That type of glitch is common with the new version of Flash. It seems the new optimizations don’t handle dropped frames nearly as well, and the system freezes up until it gets to another key frame.

On my slow computer, it is worth it for the speed increase. (and I never have problems on YouTube, just some smaller sites)

But, assuming you were not having any problems with Flash 10.0, I’d suggest the following: use the Uninstaller to remove Flash 10.1, and then install Flash 10.0. As far as I know, there is nothing new in 10.1–it’s just an optimized version of 10.0.

I could have sworn I’d already given this advice.

Nobody ever said this computer shit was easy

>there is nothing new in 10.1–it’s just an optimized version of 10.0.

10.1 is probably the most dramatic change in Flash regarding video that Adobe has produced. It enables hardware acceleration, which means that if your video card supports the feature and Adobe supports that specific videocard, the video get decoded on the dedicated hardware on the video card. That means no more pegging the CPU at 100% trying to decode the video. Flash video should be playing using much fewer resources.

I would try to uninstall flash via add/remove programs or programs in Vista/7. I would install the newest version. If you still have issues I would then update my video driver.

I’ve also read that on older computer machines Flash works better in IE because IE runs the plugin with a higher priority than Firefox does. If this is whats going on then you should just stick with IE.