What does, "A SHOCKWAVE FLASH HAS CRASHED", mean to (in computer-illiterate language, please)?

Means you should probably update your shockwave flash, either that or your it is having a brain fart. Reload the page and see if it does it again, if it does try removing it and installing again.

Thank you.

*Pretends to know what a shockwave flash might be, but only truly understanding the term, 'brain fart'."

www.shockwave.com/help/faq_flashplayer.jsp

Give that a try. If you're using google chrome there have been a lot of reports of crashes in it.

Cheers. Luckily, I have to go and have a tickle fight with my son right now, but I'll read that in a bit.

Its just a plugin for your browser which shows flash movies Gilly.

HTML5 will probably be the death of flash eventually (I hope!) lol :p

Try speaking to the laptop sternly. Look it in the screen and say "no".

andyh wrote:
What - like one of them automatic air fresheners? Are flash movies a bit like snuff movies?

See, I appreciate you're trying to be helpful, but you've no idea of the depth of my ignorance. It's like me saying "Blah, blah, blah, K1 P1 PSSO, blah, blah, gum tragacanth & merrywhite, blah, blah, panty-liner with wings", to you, and expecting you to go, "Aha! Got it." It's not going to happen. Do you see?

I've spoken to the thing sternly, I-baster, and ordered it to sit on the naughty step, but just like my children, it smirks and mocks me.

Not to worry - it's working OK at present, and as a last resort, I'll read the link Stars provided.

Thanks to all.

What i-baster said may work... I have often yelled at my computers, even threatening to throw them through a window mid-psychotic-breakdown.

And flash movies are kinda like what youtube uses...it's just a program on your graphics card/computer that allows you to view anything involving a flash graphic/video.

Flash is a video player, used on Youtube for example.

Shockwave is an animation player typically used for company promos and nippy wee animated adverts on websites.
Some examples here.

Both are produced by Adobe.

Gilly wrote:
lol!! quality

Thanks for everyone's kind assistance.

And so that it's a fair sharing of knowledge...

K1 P1 PSSO = knitting pattern instructions (knit one, purl one, pass slipped stitch over)

gum tra­ga­canth = a setting agent, which might, for example, be used in making your own mexican paste for sculpting figures in cake decoration

Merrywhite = Powdered, dried albumen, which you might substitute for fresh egg white when making royal icing, in order to avoid salmonella poisoning.

Winged panty-liners = Articles of feminine hygiene - the wings on which, assist to them to jump out of your handbag and onto the counter in a shocking and unruly manner when you reach in to pull out your purse out at the filling station.

Stop watching animal porn. I DO NOT speak from experience...

Ab Origine wrote:
Will that stop the shockwave flashes from crashing then, or are you afraid something incriminating may be seen?