Flash Player 10.1 crashes with IE7, IE8 & FF3.6.6

Question

Hello!  First I'd like to say you all are providing excellent information and help here.  I've read some answers and am very impressed with the time you take to help Adobe product users.  Maybe you can help me too! *hopes*
I have read a couple of the threads to see what I need to provide here.  I hope I give all the needed information.  First of all, I sound kind of like the user 'Carol' who uses Farmville/Facebook and updated to Internet Explorer 8, Flash Player 10.1 and there was another program she mentioned.  Anyway, my problem is similar except FP 10.1 crashes while using FF3.6.6, IE7 or IE8.  I have also reverted back to FP 9 (just to test the browsers) with same results - player crashes.  I have not run my SuperAntispyware to see if a virus could be the issue - although I am suspecting it is Not since so many others are experiencing problems with FP also.  My SuperAntispyware virus protection does not protect real time so there is nothing to disable regarding that.  When I'm using IE I do keep Protected Mode On.  If you would like me to try a game session with it Off, I can try that and provide you with the results, however FF has been my browser of choice lately, but now it is failing me too with the FP.
The sites I am having trouble with are Shockwave.com and BigSeagames.com (instead of Facebook & Farmville like Carol is/was having).  There are certain games at Shockwave and BigSeas that crash consistently.  Another player at BigSeas was told to not use IE, and to try FF.  So I did just that.  It worked for awhile, but then FP started crashing as well.  I have searched FF, Microsoft and now Adobe for help with this FP problem.  It consistently keeps crashing.
You can freely go to Firefox browser and type in the ID for my FF crash reports (listed below) - in the FF browser type about:crashes in address bar; on the resulting screen you can paste in the report numbers, if there is time to look at a couple.  I won't include all the reports, unless you specify that you need them.  Today I have had the most crashes - 12 total!  I have always been an IE-girl  (lol) just because I was so use to it.  I don't really care what browser I use as long as it works!
Thanks for any help you can give and I look forward to hearing from someone. ~Mindy

Answer 1

I've had this problem with Flash Player 10.1 crashing constantly in Firefox 3.6.6 since July 4th weekend.  I eventually installed version 3.6.3 and it stopped happening.
Once I installed FF version 3.6.8 this morning, the problem came back.
I tried this solution and it seems to be working so far (keep your fingers crossed!)
(from: http://www.technogadge.com/how-to-stop-firefox-plugin-container-exe-process/)
Steps to stop plugin-container.exe process:
Open Firefox web browser.
Type about:config in the address bar and press Enter key.
A warning will appear. Ignore it and press the "I’ll be careful, I promise!" button.
In the Filter field type dom.ipc. Six preferences will appear for the filter dom.ipc.
Ignore first and last preferences. Toggle (double-click) each of the four remaining preferences to change the value from "true" to "false".
That’s it. Look the screenshot.
Explanation: The crash protection feature in Firefox  3.6 is enabled for certain plugins only. The four preferences that we  modified here specifies four different out-of-process plugins. They are  the the NPAPI test plugin, Adobe Flash, Apple QuickTime (Windows) and Microsoft Silverlight (Windows).  These plugins are specified in a separate  dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.<filename> preference by default is set to  true. We can disable them by changing their value to false. And thus  plugin-container.exe will not run. By default the preference  dom.ipc.plugins.enabled is already set to "false". So, no need to touch  it. The dom.ipc.plugins.timeoutSecs is also not important here as other  values are false.