Task Manager Running 2 Adobes?

Should my task manager be showing TWO adobe flash players running when I play facebook games? Only ONE browser is open and only ONE game is being played. Thanks for help on confirming this so I can be sure I don't have two going at same time.

Thank you for responding. I 'assume' then the one i was previously referring to was in fact the Java then as I did have to manually install both.
I checked my plugins again for Firefox. Niether the shockwave or flash actually said 'adobe'. So I tried uninstalling Adobe again... went through the add/remove programs and didn't see another one. So I went and reinstalled Adobe Flash.
I think now that what I was seeing was the 'shockwave' and it's just a different version. So even if I wasn't seeing the name 'adobe' on either of the add ons in Mozilla I figure they were still Adobe.
Either way, fresh install now and still have the double entry in TM, same as before.
But I no longer see the shockwave add on in plugins for Mozilla Firefox.
I'm just clueless. I probably would pay no attention except for I'm a facebook game player and since the update.. my game loads slower. So I would like to figure out if it's me (my computer set up) or if it's just the new update.
Going to bed.. any advice, suggestions on things to try etc... would be appreciated.

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