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My Adobe flash keeps crashing. Have tried all fixes.

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My Adobe flash add on keeps crashing; I have done everything short of uninstalling Firefox. Please help.

My Adobe flash add on keeps crashing; I have done everything short of uninstalling Firefox. Please help.

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Is this an "in plug-in" crash where you see a crash error inside a gray box in the page?

I know you said you have tried all fixes, but if you wouldn't mind ticking off the following just in case:

(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 hardware acceleration in the Flash plugin. 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 Flash plugin's protected mode feature. This involves creating or editing a settings file. The following pages/posts provide different ways to do that:

Flash needs to completely unload from memory (restarting Firefox might help) before this would take effect.

Any improvement?