Adobe Flash-Player keeps loading twice; is this normal? Videos hang/won't load.

noticed problem when I was running Windows Vista, assumed Vista was problem.
Just upgraded to Win7 with latest version of Flash on new hard drive. Still loads and executes two separate copies of FlashPlayer. If only suppose to run one copy of Flash, is this a Firefox or Adobe problem?
I have screen shot of task mgr. window but don't see a way to attach to this msg.

Flash starts off running completely inside plugin-container.exe. If one or more separate Flash processes sprout outside of it, that is a result of the protected mode feature. This feature is somewhat buggy, so if you have issues with Flash stability or Firefox performance running Flash, you may want to disable it. You can learn more about protected mode here:
* [http://blogs.adobe.com/asset/2012/06/inside-flash-player-protected-mode-for-firefox.html Inside Flash Player Protected Mode for Firefox]
* To disable it, see this support article from Adobe 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?]

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Crashes or other problems with certain multimedia content in Firefox (such as YouTube videos and Flash animations or games) can often be resolved by performing the steps in these Knowledge Base articles:
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I have
Windows XP, 32 bit and can not get the flash player to load
. Do not know what version I had to start with. When I
try to load the 10.3 version it gets to 50% then tells me
to close the Internet explorer and bartshel!
If i do this then there is nothing left to load.
I tried to save it to my desktop but then itt says no active thread foun
d. How do I load it without my Internet being open and a
dobe site up and running when it tells me to close them?

Thanks the address you gave me gave me what I needed but still had alot of trouble with the game. Come to find out it was my browser IE8 that was causing all the problem. So I changed to google chrome and loaded the regular version of Flash player and have been able to get on the game. Now i have trouble with my plugins can you send me a link to find Adobe flash player plugin 9.0.124.0?
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 19:39:16 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: I have Windows XP 32 bit and can not get Adobe flash player to load!!! Do not know what version I ha
Hi,
Could you download the appropriate version of the installer from the following page?
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/889580?tstart=0
Once downloaded, please quit all of your browsers and launch the installer. If it still fails, please restart your system and try again. Let me know how it goes.
Thanks,
Chris
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