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Recently i just updated my adobe flash player but its causing firefox to hang frequently

Whenever i activate the adobe flash plugin it causes firefox to hang and than it comes back to normal saying "unresponsive script error" if i try "continue" firefox just hangs again same with when i click on stop script.I cant load any website properly scince the flash player hangs firefox. However when i disable the plugin firefox works perfectly the only problem is i cant watch any videos or play any game on the internet without flash player. I have searched throughout various forums and googled everything but i cant seem to find any soloution.Could anyone please help me? oh and updating firefox still causes the same problem.

Whenever i activate the adobe flash plugin it causes firefox to hang and than it comes back to normal saying "unresponsive script error" if i try "continue" firefox just hangs again same with when i click on stop script.I cant load any website properly scince the flash player hangs firefox. However when i disable the plugin firefox works perfectly the only problem is i cant watch any videos or play any game on the internet without flash player. I have searched throughout various forums and googled everything but i cant seem to find any soloution.Could anyone please help me? oh and updating firefox still causes the same problem.

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This is a known problem with the protected mode feature of the Flash player plugin on some systems, While that feature has security benefits, not everyone is able to use it. There is a hidden setting to disable it:

(A) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter. Click the button promising to be careful.

(B) In the search box above the list, type or paste flash and pause while the list is filtered

(C) Double-click the dom.ipc.plugins.flash.disable-protected-mode preference to switch its value from false to true.

This might not take effect until all Flash has been unloaded for a few minutes, or you close Firefox.

Could you try that for a while and see whether it fixes the problem?

You know, that hidden setting might not exist in Firefox 34. It might have been added in Firefox 36. Before it was added into Firefox, you had to do it this way:

You need to create or edit an Adobe settings file. The following pages/posts provide different approaches for that if it turns out to be necessary (if Flash EXE processes continue to show up in the Windows Task Manager, Processes tab, even after changing the Firefox preference):

Flash needs to completely unload from memory (exiting and starting Firefox up again might help) before this takes effect.