Flash and YouTube Issue - fullscreen 1080p freezes computer

Here's what's happening. If I go on YouTube and try to watch a video in 1080p in full screen, it will play fine for about 5-10 seconds or so, but then the video slows for half a second and then freezes, while the audio plays for a few seconds after the video freezes. Then, a few seconds after the video freezes, the audio stops playing as well. At this point, I go to a terminal by hitting Ctrl+Alt+F1 and issue a "pkill x" command, which "restarts" the computer and brings me back to the login screen.
I've tried disabling hardware acceleration and adding "OverrideGPUValidation=1" to /etc/adobe/mms.cfg, but they doesn't work. The freezing still happens.
I am on Arch 64-bit, with flashplugin 64-bit latest version (11.2.202.238-1).
Also, another issue relating to YouTube's flash player: How can I keep the font on the player the same? It alternates from time to time between an ugly wider font and a much nicer-looking narrower font.

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