654526 - Flash Plugin crashed, when i open a program that needs admin rights (uac)

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[marius_weiss]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1

i am wachting flash video, while im doing this i open an other program with "run as admin". windows 7 uac shows up. i have local admin rights, so i click "yes". after i click yes and switch back to firefox the flash plagin crashes. i tested this with many other programs (like starting zune with admin rights/startin word with admin rights and so on..) and eveytime the flush plugin crashed. i also created a new firefox profile (still same problem). 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Flash Video (like youtube)
2. Open a other Program with Adminrights (rickt click "Run as Admin")
3. Click "Yes" to the UAC Warn-Message
4. Go back to the Youtube Video
5. Flash Plugin crashed, and you have to reload the Page

Actual Results:  
Flash Plugin crashed, and you have to reload the Page

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

What version of flash do you have installed?

Comment 2

[marius_weiss]

i am running flash plugin 10.2.159.1

Comment 3

[Maurya Talisetti]

*User Agent:*
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0a1) Gecko/20110513 Firefox/6.0a1

*Works For Me:*
Flash version: 10.2 r159

Try restarting your computer and see if it happens again. I've noticed that if your FF crashes, it can keep crashing over and over again for no apparent reason. My fix was to restart my computer!

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

marius, do you still see this crash when using current version of Firefox and flash (eg version 11)?