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in my process i have 4 flash player plugging running and mozilla keeps crahing each time i open more than 1 tab , why is that 4 flash player running in process

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herogame
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i am running windows 7 ultimate 32 bit , mozilla/firefox 22.0 ,i have add on shock wave flash 11.8.800.94 pluggin installed ,.

but whenever i open the browser to eg facebook and open a new tab for a game ,it crashes every 5 mins and having to reload , another instant is when i have 2 tabs open , and refer back to the first tab i get the non responsive and it hangs for 5 mins before it starts running ,besides the error popup say shockwave not running asking to tick and wait or close every time , however when i check my processes i notice i will have 4 flash player pluggins running using a very high amount of cpu usage and ram i took a screen shot if anyone would like to see ,in hopes something can be resolved

i am running windows 7 ultimate 32 bit , mozilla/firefox 22.0 ,i have add on shock wave flash 11.8.800.94 pluggin installed ,. but whenever i open the browser to eg facebook and open a new tab for a game ,it crashes every 5 mins and having to reload , another instant is when i have 2 tabs open , and refer back to the first tab i get the non responsive and it hangs for 5 mins before it starts running ,besides the error popup say shockwave not running asking to tick and wait or close every time , however when i check my processes i notice i will have 4 flash player pluggins running using a very high amount of cpu usage and ram i took a screen shot if anyone would like to see ,in hopes something can be resolved

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yes it worked except for the not responding when changing tabs, but this is a flash player issue which they need to fix as it affecting other browsers also not just firefox

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kobe
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Delete your user.js file and pluginreg.dat file in your profile folder.

and if necessary disable hardware acceleration and or update graphics drivers

herogame
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will let you know on the progress if it worked or not

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yes it worked except for the not responding when changing tabs, but this is a flash player issue which they need to fix as it affecting other browsers also not just firefox

cor-el
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Seeing more Flash processes is a consequence of running the Flash player plugin in a protected sandbox environment.

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

  • disable a possible RealPlayer Browser Record Plugin extension for Firefox and update the RealPlayer if installed
  • disable protected mode in the Flash plugin (Flash 11.3+ on Windows Vista and later)
  • disable hardware acceleration in the Flash plugin