# "Shockwave flash may be busy, or it may have stopped responding" **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 29, 2014, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shockwave-flash-may-be-busy-or-it-may-have-stopped-responding/705860 "2014-11-29T01:05:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fir\_na\_tine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fir\_na\_tine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fir_na_tine)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2014, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shockwave-flash-may-be-busy-or-it-may-have-stopped-responding/705860/1 "2014-11-29T01:05:12Z")
The message says it all. What in hell can I do to resolve this intermittent problem? Tried googling and can’t seem to find any specific cause or solution! Happens quite often when trying to click on links. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2014, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shockwave-flash-may-be-busy-or-it-may-have-stopped-responding/705860/2 "2014-11-29T01:07:03Z")
What browser are you using? ---
**Author:** ![Fir\_na\_tine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fir\_na\_tine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fir_na_tine)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2014, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shockwave-flash-may-be-busy-or-it-may-have-stopped-responding/705860/3 "2014-11-29T02:05:15Z")
Firefox 33.1 ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2014, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shockwave-flash-may-be-busy-or-it-may-have-stopped-responding/705860/4 "2014-11-29T02:11:17Z")
You might try resetting Firefox. I had to do that yesterday because malware hooked itself onto Firefox and kept popping up everytime I started Firefox. Go to Firefox \> Help \> Troubleshooting Information. Click the “Reset Firefox” button. Firefox will close and reset. After Firefox is done, it will show a window with the information that is imported. Click Finish. Firefox will open with all factory defaults applied. WARNING: You will lose all of your extensions and possibly preferences. Also, any Theme you may have installed. ---
**Author:** ![Fir\_na\_tine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fir\_na\_tine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fir_na_tine)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2014, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shockwave-flash-may-be-busy-or-it-may-have-stopped-responding/705860/5 "2014-11-29T12:26:18Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > You might try resetting Firefox. . Yup, did that a few days ago. Didn’t help. Your warnings are better than the warnings that firefox provided. Took me a while to figure out that the extensions were blown away. ---
**Author:** ![LC\_Strawhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LC\_Strawhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LC_Strawhouse)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2014, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shockwave-flash-may-be-busy-or-it-may-have-stopped-responding/705860/6 "2014-11-29T14:23:05Z")
I had something like that happen a couple of times, and fixed it by re-installing the Flash plugin off the Adobe web site. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2014, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shockwave-flash-may-be-busy-or-it-may-have-stopped-responding/705860/7 "2014-11-29T14:28:42Z")
I know it’s no help, but crashing computers seems to be standard behavior for Adobe products. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2014, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shockwave-flash-may-be-busy-or-it-may-have-stopped-responding/705860/8 "2014-11-29T14:59:48Z")
Isn’t it funny, how a computer program can be written to diagnose any problem in the world, except a computer probolem. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2014, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shockwave-flash-may-be-busy-or-it-may-have-stopped-responding/705860/9 "2014-11-29T18:00:37Z")
Here you go. _[Shockwave Flash Player May Be Busy ?? - Factual Questions - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=739934)_ then [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...d.php?t=740405](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...d.php?t=740405) ---
**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2014, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shockwave-flash-may-be-busy-or-it-may-have-stopped-responding/705860/10 "2014-11-29T18:08:58Z")
> [@Dag\_Otto](#): > > I know it’s no help, but crashing computers seems to be standard behavior for Adobe products. Seconded. Very frustrating.