Does disabling hang protection in the flash player add on compromise security?

The flash player add on kept crashing. Support recommendations after all updates were installed was to disable hang up protection. I just wondered if this would compromise security.

It shouldn't affect security, but can affect the stability regarding crashes.
See also http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plugin-container_and_out-of-process_plugins

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