Flash Player 10.2.153 constant hangs on Mac

"A script in this movie is causing Adobe Flash Player 10 to run slowly."
I got this CONSTANTLY. Constantly. Not just in Safari but also Firefox, Chrome and every single other browser. Even Firefox and Safari's special Flash Player process isolation didn't help, because the browser would outright hang as a result, usually with high CPU usage. It almost seems like in response to Mozilla and Apple's separation of plug-ins from the main application process to prevent the #1 browser crasher, Adobe figured out that they could still hang the browser even if they couldn't crash it any more.
The other annoying thing is that if you click either button, to abort it or to not abort it, the entire application's focus has been lost. Quit menus are greyed out, tabs cannot be switched, the browser's other windows cannot be switched either, etc and the system just beeps as you. The Dock menu items don't help either. The whole thing's still stuck behind the error dialog, even once that dialog has been dismissed. The only thing you can do is force-quit your entire browser and start over. It's actually better to let the browser hang and wait for the script to eventually either time-out or complete, which will also cause the dialog to dismiss on its own. Or the alternative is to deliberately crash the isolated Flash Player process - open your Activity Monitor (Mac) and force-quit the Flash Player process for Firefox or Safari.
What finally solved it for me was ditching Flash Player 10.2 and going back to Flash Player 10.1.85. Problem solved. Never again.
I know Adobe would rather you didn't, but if you have had this problem, try going back a version or two. The security issues that drive their constant revision of the product are probably unlikely to affect you if you're careful about where you go, and only run Flash content on known sites. Click2Flash might be worth installing as a further security measure, to prevent unexpected Flash content from leaping out at you.

Hello,
Try to uninstall Flash Player from this uninstaller : http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/uninstall_flash_player_osx.dmg
Try to install Flash Player from this installer : http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_osx_ub.dmg
Make sure no process (Firefox, Safari or any another application) is running while running these process
Hope this helps !!
Thanks
Vikram

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