Flash 16 Keeps Crashing

I'm running Windows 7 Pro, 64-bit, with Firefox as my main browser. My processor is an Intel i7-3740QM CPU @ 2.7GHz, and it is very unusual for any process to keep it continually working at over 10%.
Recently, Adobe Flash Player has been eating up CPU power and crashing all the time for me, at many different websites. I've tried doing a clean install of the latest version (16.0.0.305), but this only made the problem worse. One place this problem can be reliably replicated is at www.google.com/finance. When I log into my account there and navigate to a portfolio, there is supposed to be a Flash-powered graphic showing portfolio performance over time. Ever since updating to the latest version of Flash, this graphic never loads for me. It only causes one of the FlashPlayerPlugin_16_0_0_305.exe processes (I always have 2 of them running, even after a totally clean install) to spike CPU consumption up to 13% and freeze my browser until I use Task Manager to end the resource-consuming Flash process.
I've tried doing a complete uninstall and a clean install of the latest version.
I've tried disabling hardware acceleration.
I've tried deleting the Cache files in %appdata%/Roaming/Adobe/Flash Player and then restarted my browser.
I've rigorously checked for malware using both Microsoft Security Essentials and Malwarebytes.
Yet, nothing has fixed my problems with Flash. I don't know what else I can do from my end to fix this.

1. Uninstall Adobe Flash Player:
http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/uninstall-flash-player-mac-os.html
2. Reinstall Adobe Flash Player.
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

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