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Chrome Browser error message: Shockwave Flash has crashed - what to do?

  • Sep 29, 2025
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A particularly annoying Problem that plagues many Chrome Users: With the message "Shockwave Flash has crashed" freeze your Internet Browser and will be extremely slow. This has a simple reason and easy to fix. Here you can learn how to do this:

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Anyone who has installed multiple Internet browsers on his Computer, looks at Google's Chrome frequently with this error message faced: "Shockwave Flash has crashed". The reason for this is that Chrome has installed its own Version of Flash from Adobe, the "Pepper Flash" and leads to conflicts with the of your operating system for all browsers installed Flash Version. This can occur in the case of Videos, but also a lot of Internet Ads use Flash. The solution to that is, "to uninstall Pepper Flash":
  1. Open first a new tab with the entry "chrome://plugins/" in the URL field.
  2. There is a list of all in your Chrome Browser and installed Plug-Ins.
  3. Find the entry for "Flash". There you will find the following entry: "Adobe Flash Player (2 files)". But also, if only one Flash is installed, you should continue and at the end of the System Plug-In of Flash re-install.
  4. Now click right above on "+ Details". Now you can see the Flash entry of additional information to the two different files.
  5. You can deactivate the Version, the inside of the "Google Chrome.app/Contents/" or similar Path is installed, and "Pepper Flash" in the name. This is the Chrome internal Flash issue. You just have to click on the underlined word "Uninstall".
  6. Actively, the Version of Flash that is installed for your entire operating system must remain only.
  7. Now you need to close Chrome and restart. On the Adobe Flash website you can test whether your System Flash Plug-In is still current and, if the same update is ready!
Here, you can disable Pepper Flash
As further causes of possible Chrome crashes find and fix, in a further practical tip.

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