How to fix flash player contiually crashing?

Windows 7 32 bit, Intel 2.53Ghz cpu, 2Gb memory, machine is clean, no malware or unnecessary junk.
Install flash player successfully everything looks good, but at any website that requires flash player, it either freezes or crashes. This happens repeatedly to the point where I delete the player in disgust...until the next time a web site refuses to function without it, so I install a new (and most recent) version, and the same thing happens again. And again. And again!!!
I read in the questions that this is a common issue with many many users, so just exactly what is wrong? Why can't Adobe make a flash player that works properly? I don't have any unusual, out of the ordinary machine , just a standard garden-variety Intel Windows machine. Flash player should work, but doesn't. This is getting extremely irritating and frustrating, I'm greatly tempted to abandon all Adobe products for good, and make do without using this blasted infernal Flash Player.
FWIW I am not a noob, I've been using and maintaining PCs since Windows 3.1 so please don't take the route of "user error" with me.
Whether I choose to "continue" or "stop" this message pops up again every few moments, and this continues until finally
the Flash Player crashes... which doesn't really matter at that point because the thing has been no use at all up until then.
If anyone has a solution please email it to me: I don't have the time or patience to keep checking back simply to see if anyone
responded.  I've wasted enough time on similar sites where questions go unanswered for months, or in some cases years,
and by the number of questions on this same issue, I suspect there is no solution -- unless perhaps somebody finds an alternative to using Adobe flash Player, a solution for which I sincerely hope!

I tried uninstall and re install both Flash Player and Chrome it self but nothing changed.
I also noticed that when i try to download something on chrome (this is the browser i use for everything), for example a movie trailer from Apple's trailer site (for example this movie trailer iTunes Movie Trailers) i right click and press Save As, it does nothing after that and after let's say some seconds the window pops up asking me where to save it, and i save it. That means that when i press "Save As" it does starts downloading in the background (like the first post in this thread states) and only wneh it finishes downloading the Chrome pop up window appear. When it should pop immediatelly asking me where to save it the moment i right click something and press Save As. At least that what i used to do before THIS whole problem started......
Any thoughts...??????
Please i am desperate...... 

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