How to fix, shockwave flash crashes (a lot)

Hi
What to do...
I have Vista ultimate and Firefox.
Two days ago Shockwave flash started crashing (the popup said it had stopped working).  When the plugin crashes it freezes Firefox and the plugin crashed so often that in order to use Firefox I have had to completely disable Shockwave.
I have tried reinstalling the Shockwave plugin but no improvement.  I never realized how much web content uses Shockwave flash...
The plugin crashes on practically everything that's it would be involved in running (except Utube, that works, I don't know if the plugin is involved in playing utube videos).
Any and all suggestions are appreciated...
Regards
      Bob

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