Adobe Flash keeps crashing on ALL browsers on MAC

Adobe Flash has been killing me the past couple months. First I used google chrome and sometimes I would get an adobe flash crash, but as time went my adobe flash kept on crashing in which would slow down my computer to such a level I couldn't type anything on my computer for a solid 15 seconds to wait for my computer to respond, It was eating out my memory. I followed this by making sure there wasn't 2 flash players playing together in chrome, I looked up about:plugins on chrome to make sure. Everything was normal, and I still received crashes making my browsing experience terrible.
So I decide to use Firefox after hearing about how unstable chrome is, and I still receive the same flash player errors every time I use firefox.
Help.

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My operating system is Windows Vista 32bit, I used both Firefox and Chrome web browsers both with the latest versions, I have the latest version of the adobe flash player.
At this point in time I can't get any site that runs on Adobe flash player to work and no videos that run on adobe flash player work. My problem is officially a whole lot worse.
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I'm having the exact same problem.
Until today, I haven't had any problems with flash, and then, this morning, I turned on my computer, went to youtube.com and the page almost immediately froze. A message popped up saying that flash had become unresponsive and asked if I wanted to close it.
It does this on any website that tries to load flash content. I've tried both Chrome and IE. I'm running Win7 Home Premium 64-bit on a Compaq Presario CQ5300Y PC.
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Subject: Flash Player Flash Player crashes in all browsers
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