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1. Re: Working around the 10.7 Lion Flash Player settings bug
tiddles75 Jul 23, 2011 2:52 AM (in response to chris.campbell)Thank you Chris.
But it still doesn't work if I use the Private Browsing...
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2. Re: Working around the 10.7 Lion Flash Player settings bug
blueskymining Jul 23, 2011 1:19 PM (in response to chris.campbell)This should help me to solve every issue? How do I switch to another camera if i have more than one cam connected (internal / external)? This is not configurable using the global settings (preferences) - or is it?
This is a 10.7 problem only? I had it on 10.6 also with flash 10.3 - and others too - just google it...
Thanks for your help...
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3. Re: Working around the 10.7 Lion Flash Player settings bug
scd199720 Jul 25, 2011 6:34 PM (in response to chris.campbell)Tried using your suggestions to help me with my "Local Storage" bug...However, after pressing the apple, selecting System Preferences...the Storage settings was already selected as "Allow" and did not require me to change it. When I selected "Local Storage Settings by Site..." all the sites were set to "Allow" and yet the settings bug still remains on the screen...
Please see my post Adobe Flash Player and Mac OS X 10.7
for the screenshot...
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4. Re: Working around the 10.7 Lion Flash Player settings bug
hariservicemax Aug 1, 2011 12:32 AM (in response to scd199720)Same problem here. The workaround doesn't work for Local Storage. Any information on when a fix may be available for this? Thanks.
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5. Re: Working around the 10.7 Lion Flash Player settings bug
Adoughboy Aug 1, 2011 10:46 AM (in response to chris.campbell)Can you post your video in othe formats? Real Player format? Can't view the Flash movie, Flash is not working in browser! Thanks!
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6. Re: Working around the 10.7 Lion Flash Player settings bug
chris.campbellAug 2, 2011 6:32 PM (in response to hariservicemax)
We anticipate releasing a new version of Flash Player early next week. If everything goes to plan this should be on Tuesday, August 9th. I'm sorry for the inconvenience, I understand how frustrating this bug can be (I've got two Lion systems with the current version of Flash Player installed.)
Thanks,
Chris
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7. Re: Working around the 10.7 Lion Flash Player settings bug
hariservicemax Aug 12, 2011 9:38 PM (in response to chris.campbell)The issue has been resolved with 10.3.183.5. I was able to Allow/Deny Local Storage requests. Thanks.
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8. Re: Working around the 10.7 Lion Flash Player settings bug
PlantBooks Sep 20, 2011 7:51 PM (in response to chris.campbell)Hi,
I have Adobe Flash version 10.3.183.7 installed on my Mac, I am using 10.7.1. I have been working in Shutterfly, creating a photo book, and I keep getting a similar message to the one shown in Chris's video. The dialog box is asking to use more storage space - it lists "Requested - Up to 1 MB, Currently Used - 1 KB". I am not able to click on any of the buttons on the dialog box and my shutterfly page freezes up. I have tried this using Safari, Firefox, and Google Chrome and I get the same message. I also tried opening the shutterfly book on a different mac computer which is running 10.6.8.
Per your video I have updated the systems preferences (storage, camera & mic, and playback) to allow the website listed in the dialog box (cdn.staticsfly.com), however the box still keeps popping up.
Are there any other workarounds so I can use the Shutterfly web page?
Thank you!
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9. Re: Working around the 10.7 Lion Flash Player settings bug
chris.campbellSep 21, 2011 12:36 PM (in response to PlantBooks)
Is this also occuring with 10.6.8? From what I understand, this issue is specific to Lion and iMac (versions 7,1 and 8,1) with ATI Radeon HD2600 video cards. Can you check to see if your system model is one of those? I'm asking around to see if anyone knows of a workaround for these systems and will let you know what I find.
Chris
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10. Re: Working around the 10.7 Lion Flash Player settings bug
janepatsy Sep 21, 2011 12:50 PM (in response to chris.campbell)Hi,
I also have a MAC with Lion and a ATI Radeon HD 2600.. and I have been having the same problem for a few weeks, I have tried uninstalling then reinstalling Flashplayer and Google Chrome, and Firefox several times to no avail. One cannot delete and reload Safari, Someone suggested empyting cache etc - but this does not work at all.
In my Local Storage Settings the website is shown as "allow" - and I have deleted all several times and then put them back.
It is getting most annoying,,,is there a fix for this - can one use an older version of Flash ?
i have tried to find "global settings" having looked in all the FAQ's etc but do not seem to be able to get anything in a window except - storage / Camera and Mic/Playback/ Advanced. This only seems to allow you to go into "local storage settings by site" which I have done and it shows the website !I have version 10.3.183.7 of Flash.
thanks very much,
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11. Re: Working around the 10.7 Lion Flash Player settings bug
chris.campbellSep 21, 2011 5:36 PM (in response to janepatsy)
I'm working on getting some steps together that should allow you to work around this. I'll post back shortly.
Chris
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12. Re: Working around the 10.7 Lion Flash Player settings bug
PlantBooks Sep 21, 2011 6:45 PM (in response to chris.campbell)Hi Chris,
My imac 10.7.1 does use the ATI Radeon HD2600 video card.
The dialog box also is coming up on the Macbook 10.6.8 (this uses the ATI Radeon X1600).
Thanks for looking into some steps for a work around - that would be great!
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13. Re: Working around the 10.7 Lion Flash Player settings bug
chris.campbellSep 25, 2011 7:23 PM (in response to PlantBooks)
Thank for your patience. Here's some steps that should help:
Settings UI - Display Tab
You should be able to modify the hardware acceleration option when Flash Player is in full screen mode. Try the following steps:
- Open a YouTube video in the browser.
- Expand to full screen mode.
- Right click on the video to invoke Flash Player Context menu, then click on ‘Settings’ to invoke Flash Player settings UI. (Note that you may need to do this twice if Settings UI is not invoked by the first click.)
- The settings UI should be clickable in fullscreen mode. Go to the Display tab and try enabling/disabling hardware acceleration. Click the ‘Close’ button to close Settings UI. (Note that this should be done while the YouTube video is playing.)
- Switch back to window mode. If you invoke the Settings UI again, you can verify that your previous setting in step 4. has been applied.
Settings UI - Privacy Tab
Settings on this Tab can be worked around by using the Flash Player native control panel's Camera and Microphone tabs. See this video for more details.
Settings UI - Local Storage Tab
Most settings on this tab can be worked around by setting them in Flash Player's native control panel's Storage tab, except for setting the local storage limit. One common case you may encounter is the "Local Storage" pop-up window that will appear if a website is requesting to store information on your computer.
Unfortunately, due to the current bug that effects some iMacs you're unable to click the Allow or Deny buttons. To temporarily avoid this pop-up window, we can do the following steps in Flash Player's native control panel (NCP)
- Click on the ‘Storage’ tab in the NCP
- Select 'Allow sites to save information on this computer' if you want to allow the website to store information on your machine.
- Close the NCP and reload the website in browser. No pop-up window should appear.
To change local storage settings by site do the following steps in the NCP:
- Click on the ‘Storage’ tab in the NCP.
- Click on the 'Local Storage Settings by Site…' button, a dialog will appear that allows you to specify local storage settings for individual sites.
- For each website in the list, you can set ‘Storage Access’ to Allow or Block.
To change the local storage limit we can use the Website Storage Settings panel.
- Click on a specific website where you'd like to change the storage limit, for example, my.adobeconnect.com
- Move the slider to set storage limit for this website.
- Refresh the ‘Website Storage Settings panel’ in the browser for the settings to take effect.
Settings UI – Microphone
You should be able to modify the microphone options when Flash Player is in full screen mode. Here’s an example using Google Talk (you should be able to do this with any full screen Flash content).
- Initiate a Google Talk session.
- Switch to full screen chat mode.
- Right click on the chat area to invoke Flash Player Context menu, then click on ‘Settings’ to invoke Flash Player settings UI. (Note that you may need to do this twice if the Settings UI is not invoked by the first click.)
- Now the Settings UI should be fully clickable.
- Exit from full screen mode. If you invoke Settings UI again, you should see you settings have taken effect
Settings UI – Camera
You should be able to modify the camera options when Flash Player is in full screen mode. Here’s an example using Google Talk (you should be able to do this with any full screen Flash content).
- Initiate a Google Talk session.
- Switch to full screen chat mode.
- Right click on the chat area to invoke Flash Player Context menu, then click on ‘Settings’ to invoke Flash Player settings UI. (Note that you may need to do this twice if the Settings UI is not invoked by the first click.)
- The Settings UI should be fully clickable.
- Exit from full screen mode. If you invoke Settings UI again, you should see you settings have taken effect
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14. Re: Working around the 10.7 Lion Flash Player settings bug
PlantBooks Sep 26, 2011 7:06 PM (in response to chris.campbell)Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! I think it was changing the storage limit in the Website storage settings panel - that allowed me to move the arrow to unlimited storage and I have not received the error message again since. I had already done several of the other steps you listed but I think that one did the trick for the project I was working on.
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15. Re: Working around the 10.7 Lion Flash Player settings bug
frshhh1976 Oct 17, 2011 5:23 AM (in response to chris.campbell)Apologies for digging up an old thread but this is an intermittent issue I have had for the past 2 years or so (and so can't simply be a 10.7 issue).
Mac OS X 10.4.11
Flash 10,3,183,10
Firefox 3.6.23
RadeonX1600
I've found myself here after running into the issue again while playing this game http://www.physicsgames.net/game/Cut_and_Kill_Halloween.html . The Local Storage Settings pops-up after completing level 2 - which I cannot click. Also if I right click on a youtube video and select Settings, I also cannot click that.
In my attempts to find a solution in the past I have found other forums where it has been suggested that the issue is caused by folder permissions... and indeed when I performed "Repair Disk Permissions" just now in Disk Utility it found/fixed these:
Permissions differ on ./Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Flash Player.plugin/Contents/MacOS/Flash Player, should be -rwxrwxr-x , they are -rw-rw-r-- Owner and group corrected on ./Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Flash Player.plugin/Contents/MacOS/Flash Player Permissions corrected on ./Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Flash Player.plugin/Contents/MacOS/Flash Player
...although unfortunately it hasn't fixed the issue.
Interestingly though, if I right click and sellect Settings on the embedded flash thing here: https://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ I CAN click and control it as intended.
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16. Re: Working around the 10.7 Lion Flash Player settings bug
idparkinson Nov 27, 2011 4:24 AM (in response to chris.campbell)Chris,
While the notes were very helpful in allowing me to change the Flash settings, I still have an issue.
Although I have turned Hardware Acceleration On and Off playback in full screen is still very jerky and poor, in fact it is really useless.
I too have the iMac with the ATI Radeon HD2600 video card in it.
Before Lion this worked perfectly well with Flash, but now it does not.
Is this a Flash issue or a Lion issue?
Will this ever be addressed by Adobe or Apple?
Thanks,
Ian
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17. Re: Working around the 10.7 Lion Flash Player settings bug
Mike@arlington Jan 3, 2012 3:15 AM (in response to chris.campbell)I would just like to note that the problem with unclickable settings persists, and I am using flash plug-in version 11.1.102.55
Going to full screen is not always possible with many chat sites, so the full screen "fix" won't work.
I too am using OSX Lion but had the problem with Leopard before I upgraded.
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18. Re: Working around the 10.7 Lion Flash Player settings bug
DeviousDan Feb 8, 2012 2:43 PM (in response to chris.campbell)Why has this still not been fixed? This was reported over SEVEN months ago.
Also, your work around does not work when it comes to Peer Assisted Networking. Even when manually entered into the "Local Storage Settings by Site" any site which requires P.A.N. still pops up the settings box and is therefore unusable.
Can we at least get an ETA for when this will be fixed and we can go back to using sites that we need? Also, one of the sites i need to use is Scene7. Shooting yourself in the foot there.
Using version 11.1.102.55.
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19. Re: Working around the 10.7 Lion Flash Player settings bug
chris.campbellFeb 9, 2012 1:37 PM (in response to DeviousDan)
Hi Dan,
We haven't forgotten about this bug. We're still working with Apple to get this resolved and I'll make sure to post here once the fix is available.
I'll also look into any workaround that might be able to help with with peer assisted networking.
Chris
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20. Re: Working around the 10.7 Lion Flash Player settings bug
cmcfy Feb 18, 2012 9:09 AM (in response to chris.campbell)Chris, I appreciate your persistence and optimism (really), but this is crazy. I guess there is no love lost between Adobe and Apple, but this is a really important issue for millions of users. When is this really going to be fixed? Does your management care about this? Seems they're just leaving you hanging! Thanks.
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21. Re: Working around the 10.7 Lion Flash Player settings bug
chris.campbellFeb 21, 2012 12:20 PM (in response to cmcfy)
I know that I must sound like a broken record, but this really hasn't fallen off our radar. As for management caring, one of our engineering director's personal system is effected by this issue.
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22. Re: Working around the 10.7 Lion Flash Player settings bug
cmcfy Feb 21, 2012 12:23 PM (in response to chris.campbell)Okay, I believe you. Just fix it already! Thanks.
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23. Re: Working around the 10.7 Lion Flash Player settings bug
funkyrowanpixie Apr 18, 2012 11:06 AM (in response to chris.campbell)well I've done every thing on here but l Still wont work FIX THIS OR EVEN BETTER VERSION
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24. Re: Working around the 10.7 Lion Flash Player settings bug
tobiasvogel Apr 19, 2012 11:39 AM (in response to chris.campbell)I'm also having this problem on 10.7.3 (Macbook Pro).
As I couldn't work around that bug either, I switched to my other machine (a PC running Ubuntu Linux 11.10 (x86_64)) and it turns out the problem is actually occurring on Linux, too!
Flash 11.2 r202
Ubuntu 11.10 64-Bit,
Firefox 11.0 as well as Opera 11.62
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25. Re: Working around the 10.7 Lion Flash Player settings bug
libflashplayer.soApr 19, 2012 4:02 PM (in response to tobiasvogel)
the issue on linux is separate from mac. the issue on linux is a possible conflict with compiz. it may be a single setting, but to find out quickly you may want to disable or uninstall compiz to see if this resolves your issue.
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26. Re: Working around the 10.7 Lion Flash Player settings bug
rbellgr Apr 23, 2012 10:34 AM (in response to chris.campbell)I don't know if your video fixes the problem, "flash player settings unclickable" Iam unable to see the screen because a big fat square box is sitting right in front of the video contents and i can't see it! If you presented in tet intead, I could probably read it.
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27. Re: Working around the 10.7 Lion Flash Player settings bug
boulder_lingie Apr 26, 2012 8:25 AM (in response to chris.campbell)I'm seeing this problem with Mac OS X 10.7.3 and Safari 5.1.5. I can't click on the Flash Player Settings dialogue to enable access to my microphone. Interestingly, when I go to the Flash Global Security Settings Panel, I can click and select things in that window. Also, the FP Settings dialogue works in Chrome and Firefox (on the same Mac).
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28. Re: Working around the 10.7 Lion Flash Player settings bug
rbellgr Apr 26, 2012 4:38 PM (in response to boulder_lingie)Im using OS 10.7.3. Ive been trying to follow your video but can't because the problem I'm having is in the way. I can't tell where you are clicking and pointing. I recently bought this MAC. I don't know why a microphone setting is involved in trying to watch on line videos.?
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29. Re: Working around the 10.7 Lion Flash Player settings bug
chris.campbellApr 26, 2012 4:42 PM (in response to rbellgr)
rbellgr - the microphone setting shouldn't be required to view videos. What page are you on when this microphone dialog appears? Are you able to work around the microphone issue by using a full screen flash application, such as Google Talk, as I outlined in this post?
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30. Re: Working around the 10.7 Lion Flash Player settings bug
Carol F Metzger May 3, 2012 7:42 AM (in response to chris.campbell)Mac OS 10.7.3, Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202 according to plugins list. Problem on this page will not go away.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu4O7Bs9quI&feature=digest_wed
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31. Re: Working around the 10.7 Lion Flash Player settings bug
chris.campbellMay 3, 2012 5:21 PM (in response to Carol F Metzger)
Carol - What problem are you having on this page?
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32. Re: Working around the 10.7 Lion Flash Player settings bug
DeviousDan May 3, 2012 5:36 PM (in response to chris.campbell)I think the problem she is having is that none of these solutions work. And its been F%#@ing months. This should have been escalated along time ago, are you turning into a 2nd rate company or something?
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33. Re: Working around the 10.7 Lion Flash Player settings bug
chris.campbellMay 3, 2012 5:41 PM (in response to DeviousDan)
Dan,
I understand the frustration. We've been working with Apple/ATI to get this addressed and will hopefully have a solution we can recommend soon.
Chris
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35. Re: Working around the 10.7 Lion Flash Player settings bug
SadChad May 4, 2012 12:34 PM (in response to chris.campbell)I am having this same problem across all browsers! Attempted all fixes and even setting allow access for specific site and still get the popup to allow, but cannot click or close the window. I am using:
OSX 10.7.3
ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro 256 MB
Newest version of Flash from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
Attempted to repair permissions and multiple uninstall/reinstalls
Please help with this matter!
Thanks,
SadChad
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36. Re: Working around the 10.7 Lion Flash Player settings bug
chris.campbellMay 4, 2012 4:39 PM (in response to SadChad)
SadChad and Carol, can you both try resetting your Flash preferences using the manual process in this FAQ?
How do I clear my Flash Player cache and settings?
Please make sure your browser are closed before deleting any folders.
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37. Re: Working around the 10.7 Lion Flash Player settings bug
Carol F Metzger May 4, 2012 6:05 PM (in response to chris.campbell)Nope, this did not do it.
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38. Re: Working around the 10.7 Lion Flash Player settings bug
SadChad May 4, 2012 6:50 PM (in response to chris.campbell)I don't seem to have the folders your looking for:
- ~\Library\Preferences\Macromedia\Flash Player\
- ~\Library\Caches\Adobe\Flash Player\
I have:
\Library\Preferences\
but no \Macromedia or anything else flash related there
I have:
\Library\Caches\
but no \Adobe or anything else adobe related here
So, I am unable to complete the manual process as described and the regular process did not yield any results.
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39. Re: Working around the 10.7 Lion Flash Player settings bug
Carol F Metzger May 5, 2012 9:16 AM (in response to chris.campbell)I used the "click the button" method. I dont have these files or folders either:
Macintosh
~\Library\Preferences\Macromedia\Flash Player\
~\Library\Caches\Adobe\Flash Player\
I searched my computer for anyting with "flash" in it and deleted all plugins. I am getting the same unalterable window in LiveStream as well. I am going to try downgrading to Flash Player 10.3 for Mac OS 10.4 - 10.5 (Intel).