HP Stream 7 Win8.1 tablet, and Flash Player problems.

VirtualLarry

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I recently purchased an HP Stream 7 tablet. (Very nice little thing, BTW).

It's one of the first of the "$99 Windows 8.1 Atom x86 tablets".

It has a Bay Trail-T Atom Z3735G (F?), quad-core, 1.33Ghz with some turbo, and Windows 8.1 w/BING 32-bit. 1GB RAM, 32GB eMMC.

It runs great. I put Firefox (32-bit) 33.1 on there, and the newest Flash Player.

Only problem is, Firefox comes up and says the Flash Player plugin is hung, and do you want to continue, or stop the plugin. When this happens, the browser is hung.

Is this simply a Flash Player problem with recent versions, or is there something intrinsic with this system that is causing the issues (like Intel video drivers, etc.)?

A test case is to go to Newegg.com, go to a product page, click on the large image on the left to go to the image viewer, then double-click on the image in the window to zoom it, and then try to manipulate it. Flash Player will hang.
 

postmortemIA

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remove the flash plugin from firefox. let websites figure out that you support only HTML5 video. and newegg will stop using flash to show you zoomed images.
 

Hugh Jass

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Flash just sucks...even the most up to date versions which I always install.

I've had this same thing randomly happen on two different desktop PCs. No rhyme or reason...it just happens every so often.

It does seems to happen more often on my Windows 7 PC than on my Windows 8.1 PC. In fact, I can't seem to remember the last time it did it on my Windows 8.1 PC.
 

VirtualLarry

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remove the flash plugin from firefox. let websites figure out that you support only HTML5 video. and newegg will stop using flash to show you zoomed images.

But PapaJohns pizza configurator will only let you put toppings on only half the pizza if you use their Flash version.