Flash Freezes in Mac browsers

Flash video freezes after approximately 11 seconds in both Firefox and Safari.  I am running 10.7.5 - uninstalled, reinstalled Flash, cleared caches, changed all the Flash setting (quite a pain), re-booted - all to no avail.  I called Apple Support and they were very quick to send this problem to Adobe.  What gives?  Does Flash just not work with Mac?  Is Adobe working on the problem?  Is there a fix that works?  Checking out the various forums, it appears that this problem has been around for about 6 months or so and nothing works to fix it.  Should I try an earlier version?  Install Chrome?  Give up?

This is definitely not a common behavior.  Everyone I know on the team has both a Mac and Windows system and rigorous testing is performed with each platform (and different flavors of the OS).
Sometimes video and audio problems are caused at a lower level and not directly related to Flash Player.  I recommend trying both of the links below to see how they perform.  If the problem exists with both, then Flash Player is most likely not the culprit as the HTML5 video link does not use Flash Player when playing.  You can verify the use of HTML5 by right clicking the HTML5 video and looking for the words "About HTML5" at the bottom of the context menu.
HTML5 video
Non-HTML5 video
If this does appear to be specific to Flash, please see this FAQ for details on how to open a bug report and what data we'll need.
How do I troubleshoot and report problems with Flash Player Video?

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