Flash crashing Firefox

Hey everyone,
I've searched this problem to death, and I'm not finding the answer. What is happening is every time I view a myspace page with a music player, I get the color wheel that spins and spins forcing me to Force Quit of of firefox. It occasionally happens with other flash sites like Youtube. When I restart my computer, it works great for about 5 minutes, then starts doing it again. So I got a thing called Flashblock that allows me so click on the flash object I'd like to see. So when I go to a bands myspace to listen to music, I click on it the flash object, and bam, frozen with the color wheel. It seems as if I'm not the only one with this problem. I have not found any fix yet.
Thanks,
Henry

I had this problem on my dual-G5 and now it has reared its ugly head on my new iMac. There were no system updates, software updates, or anything which set it off, but now I can't even go to www.nytimes.com and not have firefox 3.5 produce the spinning beach ball o' death.
Just for documentation sake, here's what I've tried (and didn't work):
1) Full deinstallation of Flash 10.0.32.18 and installation of Flash 9r246 (which also causes the freeze).
2) Disabling Java (saw this hint from a Windows XP user who was having problems with Flash) -- no go.
3) Full permission repairs -- nada.
What does work is:
1) Turning off Flash (not a good solution).
2) Running Flashblock -- this is turning out to be my best solution right now. It doesn't appear to be ALL flash content that freezes (e.g. with youtube and flashblock I can click the flash video and it plays fine), so this way you can continue to use flash content as you need it -- this might also be a good way to identify, specifically, which flash apps are causing the freeze.
Very frustrating considering Flash is so widely used, as is Firefox.

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;[[Image:SafeMode-Fx35]]
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