IE6 occasionally crashes when I visit some websites. It seems to have something to 
do with the flash player. It happens when SOME sites have a flash object or when 
a certain ad appears in my Yahoo mail (I think it's for Cingular cell phone). I found 
an earlier thread about the msvcrt.dll file. I have ver 6.10.9359.0 I went to dll-files.com 
and tried v 6.00.8397.0, but it didn't work any better, in fact, my Palm software 
objected to the different dll file. 
I am running:
IE v 6.0.2800.1106IC
Win98SE v 4.10.222 A
Intel Pentium II processor (gray hair and all)

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Hi Jim.

Yes I had the same problem a few months ago. I downloaded Flash 
Player 10.0.1.218 Beta (IE). Actually I downloaded Flash Player 9.0.124.0 (IE) 
but it isn't listed on FileHippo and that cured my problem.

Or you could try Adobe 
Flash Player Support Center

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|IE6 occasionally crashes when I visit some websites.
| Jim Fisher
|
Serves you right for using The World's WORST Browser.

|It seems to have something to do with the flash player.
|
If you used a Gecko-based browser (Firefox, etc.),
you could use the FlashBlock extension to block that junk
(99.999% of which is crap advertising) and *selectively* view what you want.[1]
Using Firefox/FlashBlock would cut down on bandwidth demands
and on waits for USELESS junk on page loads
--not to mention eliminating the crashes.

|It happens when SOME sites have a flash object
|or when a certain ad appears in my Yahoo mail.
|
Having to wait for ads is so 1999.
Allowing yourself to be inconvenienced by malformed junk on sites
--when you aren't even interested in that junk--is even more lame.
(See Firefox, above.)

This on top of the fact that Macromedia/Adobe Flash is A SECURITY NIGHTMARE.
cache of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Adobe_Flash#Local_Shared_Objects

**Serious Flash (ActionScript) Vulnerabilities (With NO PATCHES AVAILABLE)** 
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/21/flash_vulnerability_menace

**Flash Now Includes a Privacy-Invasion "Feature" (Local Shared Objects)**
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/04/177238mode=nested&threshold=5#12135251

...and there is no reason to use the bloated, insecure crapware
that Macromedia/Adobe tries to push on you either: 
cache of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Video


[1] The AdBlock and NoScript extensions further improve your browsing experience
...and you will LOVE Tabbed Browsing.

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Keith Stanier wrote:
|I downloaded Flash Player 
10.0.1.218 Beta (IE). Actually I downloaded Flash Player 9.0.124.0 (IE) 
|but it isn't listed on FileHippo and that cured my problem.

I downloaded Flash Player 10.0.1.218 Beta (IE) today just to see if do any better. 
It appears that Flash Player 10.0.1.218 doesn't work on Win98SE even through it says 
for all Windows versions.

Flash Player 9.0.124.0 
(IE) is listed, I must have missed it and that does work with Win98SE. 

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Jim,

Check the link below. It's for a small freeware program that allows you to toggle 
Flash off and on.

Sorry, can't help with the grey hair but this will put some speed in your step.

One drawback. You have to exit IE to toggle back & forth. 

http://www.flashswitch.com/

BW





There's nothing to learn from someone who already agrees with you.

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On Thursday, May 15, 2008 at 5:25 am, Jim Fisher wrote:

>IE6 occasionally crashes when I visit some websites. It seems to have something 
to 

>do with the flash player. It happens when SOME sites have a flash object or when 

>a certain ad appears in my Yahoo mail (I think it's for Cingular cell phone). I 
found 

>an earlier thread about the msvcrt.dll file. I have ver 6.10.9359.0 I went to dll-files.com 

>and tried v 6.00.8397.0, but it didn't work any better, in fact, my Palm software 

>objected to the different dll file. 

>I am running:

>IE v 6.0.2800.1106IC

>Win98SE v 4.10.222 A

>Intel Pentium II processor (gray hair and all)

 

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Bob, fantatic tool. Hopefully they'll figure how to get it to work on the fly, but for now, good enough.


On Monday, May 19, 2008 at 9:32 am, bob wells wrote:
>Jim,
>
>Check the link below. It's for a small freeware program that allows you to toggle
>Flash off and on.
>
>Sorry, can't help with the grey hair but this will put some speed in your step.
>
>One drawback. You have to exit IE to toggle back & forth.
>
>http://www.flashswitch.com/
>
>BW
>
>
>
>
>
>

There's nothing to learn from someone who already agrees with you.
>
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Hi Jack,

Yeah, I thought it was pretty good too.Amazing how much faster things load and how 
many irrititaing Flash objects it prevents.

Now it's got me wondering if I'm really missing anything. SOOO, I tried toggling 
it on & off with IE running. It seems to make the changes in the Dialog box, but 
so far, I can't tell for sure if it actually works this way.

The program did not protest the change, so I'm going to see what it actually does.

BW



There's nothing to learn from someone who already agrees with you.

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On Tuesday, May 20, 2008 at 12:12 pm, jack hall wrote:

>Bob, fantatic tool. Hopefully they'll  figure how to get it to work on the fly, 
but 

>for now, good enough.

>

>

> 

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