Shockwave Flash is CONSTANTLY not responding and crashing

Hello there,
I've had this problem for a long time, and I've done most everything suggested in other forums regarding this matter. I've disabled "disabled protected mode, disabled hardware acceleration, made sure everything is updated, and nothing works. Unfortunately, this makes Firefox so unusable that I've had to switch to another browser for the time being, but it's having it's own issues. Very frustrating! I like Firefox and would like to have it working, but this "shockwave flash plugin" problem has been a persistent problem for the last year.
I've seen many other users who have not been able to fix the problem via the above suggestions, so--what's the verdict? Is there something else I can try?
Cheers

Hi gforcewarp9, as you can see, the first one of those is easily clickable to access the report, but the others may require an extra step on your part: can you click them on the about:crashes screen and then copy/paste the URLs of those report pages into a reply? If they are all basically the identical report (startup crash with the "hang | ntdll.dll@0x3aaac" signature) then I'm not sure it would provide much more information to post those links.
The crash report seems to show Hola Unblocker running. Last year, a user discovered that extension can cause problems with Flash. Have you tried disabling it? One way would be to test the same pages in Firefox's Safe Mode. That's a standard diagnostic tool to deactivate extensions and some advanced features of Firefox. More info: [[Troubleshoot Firefox issues using Safe Mode]].
You can restart Firefox in Safe Mode using either:
* "3-bar" menu button > "?" button > Restart with Add-ons Disabled
* Help menu > Restart with Add-ons Disabled
Not all add-ons are disabled: Flash and other plugins still run
After Firefox shuts down, a small dialog should appear. Click "Start in Safe Mode" (''not'' Reset).
Any difference?

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