Flash Player constantly crashes on Firefox and Chrome, works on Safari

Hello!
This is my first time posting here. I've been working on this all day and have made NO progress.
I'm on a Mac OS X 10.9.3 (this was also happening with 10.9.2, I applied the 10.9.3 update today hoping it would make difference).
ANY version of Flash Player I've installed today has worked fine on Safari, and not worked on both Chrome and Firefox. I've uninstalled reinstalled both Firefox and Chrome many times. Both browsers are up to date (Chrome v34, Firefox v29). There are no logs or anything ever.
The plugin runs for a little bit then dies. I've tried reverting to version 12, and version 11, neither made a difference. I've done the whole disable the pepper plugin with Chrome and had Chrome using the other one I had installed. No difference.
I'm OUT of ideas and can't find any other information or help with this. PLEASE HELP!

Your issue is distinct from the original poster's issue about a crash on Mac. I've branched this out to a new thread so that we're not confusing everyone.
Firefox on Win8 isn't very stable. We're collaborating with Mozilla on improvements, and my test results with the daily development builds are really promising, but it will be a few more weeks before they actually make it to production releases.
In the meantime, you're way better off using IE or Chrome.

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Additional Information 2:    d151bcab05eb38953b560fccb7469d66
Additional Information 3:    6635
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Signature
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UUID
5f76b544-46a4-4c19-837b-279332150418
Date Processed
2015-04-18 21:05:58.383075
Uptime
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Last Crash
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Install Age
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Install Time
2015-04-06 18:09:13
Product
Firefox
Version
37.0.1
Build ID
20150402191859
Release Channel
release
OS
Windows NT
OS Version
6.1.7601 Service Pack 1
Build Architecture
x86
Build Architecture Info
GenuineIntel family 6 model 15 stepping 7 | 8
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Crash Address
0x0
User Comments
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Processor Notes
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EMCheckCompatibility
True
Winsock LSP
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Adapter Device ID
0x0165
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4294836224
Available Virtual Memory
2360127488
System Memory Use Percentage
26
Available Page File
44004167680
Available Physical Memory
18994331648
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