Flash player must be updated! update or die!

Hello. I am a system administrator to park more than 200 computers, on my initiative, each of them set firefox. Internet access in our company through a proxy server with authentication and this makes it extremely difficult to update Flash Player automatically. And since the firefox happens regularly hysteria about the update flash player to constantly update it manually. Because the user can not simply go to the site and perform the tasks he needs fayrfoks blocks flash player and it's a huge problem. I can not go into the settings and add-ons to install fayrfoks always run flash player because this item is inactive. I'm ready to update fleshpleer every six months or at the time when it is really needed. But update it every month is absolutely inadequate and furthermore creates problems all around, and these problems are much greater than those that may arise as a consequence of violations of imaginary security. These system administrators as I form the main your audience, set the browser on the user workstation and as a consequence, the user then sets the house on their own already familiar it does. But as the firefox became extremely uncomfortable and this problem can not be solved, I'll be forced to go to another browser that does not create problems and remove the firefox from all computers in the enterprise. And probably if you do not solve a problem that they themselves have created, so go more and more people. My question is how to disable this paranoia in firefox? How to make sure that he did not specify when I have to update one or another plugin? And work in normal mode even run any outdated plugin without creating problems to me and users?

Take your complaints to Adobe who makes the Flash Player!
Ask them why they created 5 new versions of Flash since the beginning of December 2014; three of which were in January 2015 alone. Adobe needs to get "its house in order" and maybe fix it right the first time!
Mozilla is just blocking the older versions of Flash due to reported security exploits to protect Firefox users from being exploited by faults within Flash.
''BTW, Mozilla is working on a project using HTML5 technology [code named Shumway], that [hopefully] someday will replace Flash entirely.''
http://mozilla.github.io/shumway/

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