Firefox Flash crashes

I've been having multiple FF crashes for more than 6 months - sometimes a week goes smooth, sometimes there's several crashes a day (I'm in QA and use browsers heavily). In some cases only Flash Player crashes but sometimes it's a whole browser session. I updated Shockwave Flash and FF several times and reinstalled both during that period. Local troubleshooting didn't help either.
Please see today's Error msg (https://www.dropbox.com/s/mb4bjck9hu3tccc/PluginError.png?dl=0) and a list of submitted reports (https://www.dropbox.com/s/cf0o25qx0i5xw48/CrashReports.png?dl=0) which can't be opened though. Let me know if any more details are needed to troubleshoot and fix the issue. Thanks!

Hi AlenaS,
Thank you for your question, however in order to further investigate can you please attach submitted crash report ids?
To submit the crashes go to the page '''about:crashes''' and click '''submit'''
When done, you can copy and paste the reports with "bp-" in front of them.
Thank you!

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