Flash Player Giving Me Troubles

I have a new laptop and I'm running it on Windows 7 and IE9. Now, a while ago, I found out that I had to switch it to Compatibility View so that I could go on some forums. This too was a bit of a pain, as I had to switch it on and off depending on which forum I was on. It seems to be OK now.


Now, when I've gone on to Photobucket to upload and organize pics it said that I need to have Flash Player to organize pics. OK, so I upload it and now I get the banner ads flashing off and on strobe-like on top of the page, even if I scroll down, so I can't shoose the commands.


This happens on all sites now, and if there's a YouTube video in a post, the video connection in the post is blank, but I get a huge video link to the top left and on top of the posts.


I can't even upload on Photobucket anymore because of all this strobe crap because I can't click on the options.


Is this an IE9 thing? If it is, how can I switch to IE8?


Thanks for any help.

Just download firefox or opera and use that.

That's the same reply I got on the other forum. I've been off and on Firefox for many years now, I guess it's time to go back on.

trouble is firefox just had version out -ff 4 and that was rubbish too,and many had to revert to 3.6.
could try it anyway .

I've downloaded Firefox aadn it's working fine so far. Thanks for the tips.