Flash Player crashes instantly, cannot disable hardware acceleration - Ubuntu 11.10 Acer Aspire One

Ubuntu 11.10 32 bit
Firefox 10.0.2 32 bit
Flash 11.1 r102
I have a Acer Aspire One netbook
As soon I hit "play" on a flash movie, flash player crashes
I have tried to disable hardware acceleration to eliminate that possibility, but the check box does not respond to input
I read that the flash player system controls do not respond when there are scrollbars around the screen (as there are on a small netbook screen) so I zoomed out to get rid of the scrollbars, but the systems setting menu is still unresponsive when I try to disable hardware acceleration

Thanks Carl, but as I mentioned:
>I have tried to disable hardware acceleration to eliminate that possibility, but the check box does not respond to input
eg. when I right slick on a player, the setting menu opens up, but the "Enable hardware" check box does not respond to a mouse click and remains on I also tried tabbing around the settings menu and using the return key to select/ de-select but that doesn't work either

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Is this just a win vista problem or something?
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Dell XPS430 BIOS: Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 A00
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          Page File: 1979MB used, 10287MB available
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
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Dedicated Memory: 248 MB
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All of this happens when I use the most current version of flash player any other previous version will not crash when doing any of this although I can't use my webcam since the website is running an updated version which is why I would like to get this problem fixed.
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osprey623 wrote:
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Time of this report: 9/11/2012, 00:42:10
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        Sound Tab 4: No problems found.
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DirectDraw: 0/4 (retail)
DirectInput: 0/5 (retail)
DirectMusic: 0/5 (retail)
DirectPlay: 0/9 (retail)
DirectSound: 0/5 (retail)
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Firefox 3x was released in July 2008 and is no longer supported. You'll have to upgrade to a later version, preferably the current one which is 8.0.1. Be aware that if you choose to install an older version, then you'll be exposing your system to the exploits documented these release notes: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox.html#firefox8
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robmot wrote:
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Did you try to disable hardware acceleration in the Flash plugin and in Firefox?
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*You can open the <b>about:crashes</b> page via the location bar, like you open a website, or open the crash reports page via "Help > Troubleshooting Information".
See:
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Mozilla_Crash_Reporter
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