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When I visit website which have video advertisments embedded in them I often encounter have slowness and Firefox crashes related to the FlashPlayer Plugin.

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Embedded video advertisements crash my flash player plugin. I believe the plugin is up to date, but I honestly don't even know how to check. The problem occurs often if I decide to go to click bait sites such as Buzzfeed, or tv news website which also tend to have large numbers of advertisements. I tried to disable autoplay so that the videos wouldn't start, but that only result in me having to click to start my streaming videos on YouTube and netflix/hulu/etc. Advertisements continued to autoplay and crash the flash plugin. Memory usage in these situation skyrockets well over 1,000,000 k.

Embedded video advertisements crash my flash player plugin. I believe the plugin is up to date, but I honestly don't even know how to check. The problem occurs often if I decide to go to click bait sites such as Buzzfeed, or tv news website which also tend to have large numbers of advertisements. I tried to disable autoplay so that the videos wouldn't start, but that only result in me having to click to start my streaming videos on YouTube and netflix/hulu/etc. Advertisements continued to autoplay and crash the flash plugin. Memory usage in these situation skyrockets well over 1,000,000 k.

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This is not a cure, but should let the web page load without crashing.

Flash block {web link} Never be annoyed by a Flash animation again! Blocks Flash so it won't get in your way, but if you want to see it, just click on it


Adblock Plus {web link} Blocks annoying video ads on YouTube, Facebook ads, banners and much more. Adblock Plus blocks all annoying ads, and supports websites by not blocking unobtrusive ads by default (configurable).

Adblock Plus Pop-up Addon {web link} Adblock Plus Pop-up Addon extends the blocking functionality of Adblock Plus to those annoying pop-up windows that open on mouse clicks and other user actions.

Forum; Adblock Plus Homepage {web link}

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Carados said

I believe the plugin is up to date, but I honestly don't even know how to check

Use this link to check that your plugins are up-to-date. If any are listed as unknown or research, do not worry about them.