Shcokwave Flash may be busy message

When using weatherbug (on my Firefox Browser), and antimating their weather maps, I often get the message: shockwave flash may be busy. I have two choices, either wait for the plugin to start working (which never happens) of stop plugin (which causes adobe to crash). I have the latest flash player and browser. How can I fix this? Thanks, Tim

Yeah, this is probably a product of your computer swapping RAM to disk.  This occurs when your computer is low on RAM.  To make up the difference, the computer will swap areas of RAM (the fast on-chip stuff) to disk (the slow spinning metal stuff).  Disk is probably 1000x slower than RAM, so you'll see a huge hit to performance while you're in swap.
The goal is to avoid getting the system low on RAM so that you're never in swap.  If you're just running a couple open tabs and no other programs, that shouldn't be happening, and I'd be interested in specifically what pages are causing it.  It could be that you're looking at poorly written content, or you're running into a Flash Player bug (our garbage collector hasn't changed in a long time and is time-tested, so it's unlikely that it's a GC problem...). 
The alternative is to add more RAM to the machine, but it's a relatively new machine and I assume it's reasonably appointed.
When the machine gets into swap like that, the best thing to do is just to reboot it gracefully from Windows.  If you look in Task Manager, you should be able to sort the processes by memory use. What's using the most RAM when that happens?

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    ''klear101 [[#question-1038386|said]]''
    <blockquote>
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    Yesterday I entered services.msc and changed all of my microsoft network services and services related to my adapor that said manual to automatic. I did this unrelated to firefox but because my network/wifi was connecting slowly when I booted up my computer. I then rebooted my computer.
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    ''dearmschris [[#question-1020393|said]]''
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    Check it out: [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/Shumway]

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