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every 5 minutes or less my adobe flash player crashes its been getting worse and worse and I'm about to stop using you after many, many good years of use.

every 5 minutes or less my adobe flash player crashes its been getting worse and worse and I'm about to stop using you after many, many good years of use.

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Flash causes behind the crash which can be solved by some tricks such as

  • Using Flash Block add-on from about:addons (tyoe into url and search that one).
  • Change settings from Always Active to Never Active again in add-ons> plug-in section.
  • paste crash report id from about:crashes(type in url and copy the id which startes from bp-xxxx-)

PS: did you find any pattern like it hangs/crashes on particular site/video etc.

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You can check for problems with current Shockwave Flash plugin versions and try this:

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If you have submitted crash reports then please post the IDs of one or more recent crash reports that have a "bp-" prefix:

  • bp-xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx

You can find the Report ID of recent crash reports on the "Help > Troubleshooting Information" page (about:support).

  • Click the "All Crash Reports" button on this page to open the about:crashes page and see all crash reports.

If necessary then you can open about: pages via the location/address bar.

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