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Flash videos and things that use flash freeze firefox completely.

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Well, whenever I open a flash player, or something like that, most things that use flash player as a plugin, it freezes my firefox, and then, after awhile it may or may not say a script is causing problems yadda yadda.

Well, whenever I open a flash player, or something like that, most things that use flash player as a plugin, it freezes my firefox, and then, after awhile it may or may not say a script is causing problems yadda yadda.

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Actually, it's safer (from the security vulnerability perspective) to use 11.3 with protected mode disabled, assuming that works for you. 11.2 isn't get any patches.

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If you are running Flash 11.3, try disabling the new protected mode, since that feature is currently being debugged. See this support article from Adobe under the heading "Last Resort": Adobe Forums: How do I troubleshoot Flash Player's protected mode for Firefox?

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Would appear that helped actually. So I guess I'll have to revert back to 11.2, until this issue is solved. Thanks for the help, jscher.

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Actually, it's safer (from the security vulnerability perspective) to use 11.3 with protected mode disabled, assuming that works for you. 11.2 isn't get any patches.

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Good point, thank you again.