Adobe Flash Player and pluggin 16.0 r0 constantly stops working

Question

For a couple of days now firefox and adobe flash player/pluggin 16.0 r0 will not function properly at all. If I end up on a site like youtube or other sites with similar functions, I get bombarded repeatedly with this message and can't do anything about it. No matter which option I click to exit this box, be it the "X', "Check online for a solution and close the program" or "Close the program" the same message just pops right back up. Again and Again and Again until finally I'm fast enough to close out my tabs before the next one comes. I've attempted to remedy it by turning off the hardware acceleration but I can't actual access the control panel to turn it off without this pluggin working. I'm not sure what caused this, nor how to remedy it, I would be really grateful for some help.
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Answer 1

Another feature that is occasionally the cause of crashes is the plugin's Protected Mode feature. That has security benefits, but seems to have compatibility issues on some systems. You can disable it by creating or editing a settings file. The following pages/posts provide different approaches for that:
* Adobe support article under the heading "Last Resort": [http://forums.adobe.com/message/4468493#TemporaryWorkaround Adobe Forums: How do I troubleshoot Flash Player's protected mode for Firefox?]
* Manual steps: https://support.mozilla.org/questions/968190?page=5#answer-509209
* Batch file to automate the manual steps: https://support.mozilla.org/questions/982093#answer-518078 (alternate version of Carm's batch file with a few changes by me: [https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=f7d304d92388737d&id=F7D304D92388737D!336&ithint=file,.bat&authkey=!AP2FXW2Y_3BXZyo])
Flash needs to completely unload from memory (exiting and starting Firefox up again might help) before this takes effect.
Any improvement?