Death of firefox ..killed by flash plugin

Firefox is very slow due to flashplugin running every now and then.I have been with firefox for last 10 years
Could not find a suitable solution to this issue.This is my first and last complaint.I am able to run things smoothly (better) with internet explorer
so goodbye firefox

Hello pemr1,
We are sad to see you go.
I'm confident that with a bit of work we can resolve the issues you are having with flash. I'm running the same version of Firefox on the same OS as you and am having no problems with Flash - it tends to be specific other programs or settings that are causing the issues.
Recent crashes of certain multimedia contents (this includes Youtube videos, certain flash games and other applications) in conjunction with Firefox are most probably caused by a recent Flash update and/or a malfunctioning browser plugin such as Real Player.
In order to remedy the problem, please perform the steps mentioned in these Knowledge Base articles:
* [[Flash Plugin - Keep it up to date and troubleshoot problems]]
* [[Flash 11.3 crashes]]
* [[Flash 11.3 doesn't load video in Firefox]]
Other, more technical information about these issues can be found under these Links:
* http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1018071?tstart=0
* http://blogs.adobe.com/asset/2012/06/inside-flash-player-protected-mode-for-firefox.html
You may also be interested to know that Mozilla are near to releasing a SWF (flash) renderer based entirely on HTML5 technology which we hope will replace the flash plugin entirely and so cut out the types of issues you have been having.
If you are interested you can read about it here:
* [https://blog.mozilla.org/research/2012/11/12/introducing-the-shumway-open-swf-runtime-project/ The Shumway Project] (note that this is nearly a year old so much progress has been made since)
* http://mozilla.github.io/shumway/
I hope this helps.

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