Flash Debugger crashes Safari relentlessly

Question

Ever since Flash Player 10 came out, the debugger version causes what seems like a crash in my browser, either Safari, or Firefox, on Mac OS X. It's been consistently happening with 10.0, 10.1 and 10.2.

And it's not just on the applications I develop. Six or seven times out of ten, when I visit sites like Gamespot with Flash video delivery and a banner ad or two, the debugger kicks out an error and, upon dismissing that error, I can't regain focus of my browser. Clicking a window does nothing but trigger the Mac OS X error sound. I have to force-quit and start again.

The Adobe forums have been no help, and everything else I've seen relative to the debugger crash issues doesn't seem to solve my problem. Any ideas?

Answer 1

I'm not sure if this works on a Mac as well, but on a Windows machine, this hack saved me already some time: Often it is just enough to kill the task "plugin-container.exe". This will stop all flash movies immediately and unfreeze your browser. So you can work on without losing all work done in other browser tabs and waiting for your browser to restart.