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my flash/shockwave player keeps crashing/freezing

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Please help. ASUS Vivo book, firefox/mozilla (as well as chrome) latest versions of Flash/Shockwave Uninstalled/Reinstalled. Reset timer to -1. Helps a bit, but still crashes

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Please help. ASUS Vivo book, firefox/mozilla (as well as chrome) latest versions of Flash/Shockwave Uninstalled/Reinstalled. Reset timer to -1. Helps a bit, but still crashes bp-f4d58f88-1730-437f-96c4-002912140704 7/4/2014 2:50 PM bp-c12e3321-f60e-4fe7-b552-7090f2140701 7/1/2014 12:14 PM bp-b14ca2b4-07f0-46c5-9787-e62272140630 6/30/2014 10:55 AM

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Could you try steps:

(1) If you have any recorders/downloaders that interact with Flash media make sure they are as up-to-date as possible, or disable them temporarily.

(2) Disable Flash using hardware acceleration. See this support article from Adobe: http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/video-playback-issues.html#main_Solve_video_playback_issues

(3) Disable the protected mode feature. This involves creating or editing a settings file. You can disable that by creating or editing a settings file. The following pages/posts provide different ways to do that:

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