Flash plugin hangs all browsers on my mac

Question

Starting about a week ago, about 1/3 of sites that use flash cause my browser to hang.   It's not browser specific - happens the same in Firefox, Safari, and Opera.   Symptom is complete freeze of the browser, requiring force quit.   An easy reproduce is http://www.chase.com ; that site crashes my browser with 100% repeatability.
Disabling the flash plugin completely fixes the problem, but then I can't see flash content.
System details:
OS:  Mac OS X 10.5.8
Hardware:   Mac Pro Quad-core 2.66Ghz
Flash player version:  10.0.43_34
Browser: All        
I have already tried all of the following:
      • Uninstalling / reinstalling flash player.
      • Deleting/rebuilding browser profiles
      • Installing every version of player 10.x available in the archive, and a couple versions of 9.x ... all cause the same problem.
Interesting note:
     • Problem does not occur on my MacBook Pro, which has a nearly identical software configuration.
I have filed a bugreport, but what good does that do me?  I don't even have privileges to view the bugreport, so I don't know whether it's been responded to or not.   In the meantime, half the web is unusable because everybody uses flash.

Answer 1

I had this exact same problem with my macbook pro 2.6Ghz laptop
I was running OSX 10.5.7 with flash 8 or so when some websites I frequent forced me to upgrade. The player didn't work off the bat and after re installing the player as well as all my browsers, repairing permissions I was starting to lose hope. I got the latest system update to 10.5.8 and afterward determined it was the plugin itself that was the problem. Couldn't fix it by removing the plugin from my library files, and even worse couldn't find Flash 8 or 9 ANYWHERE to downgrade.
The installer itself is pretty useless as you can only choose the drive to install the plugin and not integrate it seperately into your browsers as you choose. I suppose this is for convenience, but when it doesn't work it's a real bummer. Some linux users I know have far more problems with flash 10 than I do, so I'm thankful to have recieved at least minimal support for my platform from Adobe.
I hypothesized that Adobe simply did not create a very versatile plugin, and that since everyone and their dog has snow leopard (with no flash problems whatsoever) that snow leopard managed to recieve better support. Sure enough installing snow leopard and re-installing the plugin has yielded no problems so far. Good thing I had a free snow leopard upgrade disk with my computer or I, like many other people here, would still be unsatisfied.
What has flash 10 done for me that flash 8 hasn't? Nothing but headaches so far.
Overall Adobe satisfaction rating: 3/10
You guys have made great code in the past! Stop being lazy!