FF Flash Plugin Issue: Lots of disk access

Hi,
I was looking for strange disk access under Windows Vista.
After using ProcessMonitor form Sysinternals, I saw Firefox
seems to do many accès to NPSWF32.dll
So If you let open a FF Web page, it access harddrive very
often. So it may also call AntiVirus Check, logs writting, ...
Is it a known issue ?
Best Regards

Hi,
- I try to uninstall / reinstall ... nothing
- I try to remove some extension ... nothing
- I try on an other computer with Windows XP: Everythings
fine
I don't know why Vista and Firefox want to acces NPSWF32.dll
many many many times ???
Helllpp please !!!

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Hi,
I'm a bit confused with your description, as you said adobe flash player couldn't play any vedio. How about Youtube vedio? Does it works fine?
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Thank you both for your reply!
@Campbell:
the same effects with or without having the flash acceleration enabled.
I dont know if I am enough able to file a bug request.
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I warmly hope that the Adobe Engineers will read and reproduce my issue and they may want to send me an email if the issue will be resolved.
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my OS/hardware seems not too old
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here the url:
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thank you both
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