After singing the praises repeatedly of Google Chrome, a new version got automatically updated (10.0.064.151) and boooooom!!!!!
The Shockwave Flash plugin hangs repeatedly, meaning no video or flash content will be displayed.
Really really annoying, and it seems it's really quite a big problem, judging by the number of various forum and support threads running. The timing is terrible with the recent launch of Microsoft's IE9, but I genuinely love Chrome, it's fast and does the job... until now!
After trying just about every suggested fix from various support threads, I've finally bitten the bullet, and butchered my Google autoupdater, and downgraded to Version 9.
Shockwave plug-in issues - Google Chrome Help
Download version 9. (google chrome_installer_stable9). When you have saved it, uninstall your current version of Chrome (don't remove history). Reboot, and remove your network connection.
Install version 9. Then this is where is gets crude, if you are online, google will auto update back to version 10. So you need to stop the google auto updater, hence why you need to remove your internet connection while you fix this.
In Vista, I went to task scheduler (admin tools) and disabled "google software updater" and googleupdatetaskmachineUA". I also went to my profile users<your name>appdatalocalgoogleupdate and deleted "googleupdate.exe
I also deleted googleupdaterservice.exe from c:program filesgooglecommongoogle updater
Rebooted, then reconnect my internet connection, and I have had 2 days of stability on Chrome version 9, with no more crashes. I would imagine it will be similar in XP, but not familar with Win7.
