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the adobe flash plugin has failed and none of the solutions have helped

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the adobe flash plugin has failed and none of the solutions listed in the help section works! I've tried all the solutions listed but none seems to work.

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Every time Firefox opened

== it started a week ago

the adobe flash plugin has failed and none of the solutions listed in the help section works! I've tried all the solutions listed but none seems to work. == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == it started a week ago

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Why is Flash now so unstable in Firefox? The Flash has crashed indicator is now a familiar visitor (it generally goes when I refresh the page so it's not hugely fatal!) But . . . I am having to go back to IE to check the reliability with my own sites - which are heavily dependent on flash for animation and video. What can be done? My Firefox and Flash installations are kept up to date. Really disappointing.

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Why is Flash now so unstable in Firefox? The Flash has crashed indicator is now a familiar visitor (it generally goes when I refresh the page so it's not hugely fatal!) But . . . I am having to go back to IE to check the reliability with my own sites - which are heavily dependent on flash for animation and video. What can be done? My Firefox and Flash installations are kept up to date. Really disappointing.

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I've had this too, and thought it had something to do with the 3.6.8 upgrade. However, I'm not so sure now, since the Flash-crash also happened in Google Chrome. This may be a Flash bug, or a combination of Flash update+ Firefox 3.6.8

I've run updates for both Firefox and the Flash plugin.

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This helped me: disable real time scanning in your anti-virus program. Disable any antivirus add-ons in firefox. Sometimes Firefox still freezes for a shorter time, then it plays video normal again.