Why is Flash crashing in Firefox - huge problem

Question

Every day, mainstream websites have their Flash content crash in Firfox for me on XP Pro, Vista and Windows 7.
I love Firefox. I appreciate it is free and thank you for creating and maintaining it. But this Flash thing should not be passed by saying it is someone elses responsibility. For good or for ill, Flash is a basic building block of the web business.
Unfortunately, Steve Jobs seems to be on the money by saying Adobe have become a flaky software developer. With the way Flash performs on my system under Firefox, it leaves me no choice but to spend more of my day with IE and Chrome. But I don't want to do this and would not if Flash could just be at all reliable in Firefox.
BTW, I have tried the advice in the forums but this seems to be a deep down and fundamental issue that PR cannot overcome. The whole "container" strategy is a failure from my pov. While isolating Flash in another process/thread may make sense technically, I really don't want to have notifications of both Flash and container crashes. Really unsettling!
Flash should just work for everyone from the get go without all this fuss.

Answer 1

Crashes or other problems with certain multimedia content in Firefox (such as Youtube videos and Flash animations or games) can often be resolved by performing the steps in these Knowledge Base articles:
* [[Flash Plugin - Keep it up to date and troubleshoot problems]]
* [[Flash 11.3 crashes]]
* [[Flash 11.3 doesn't load video in Firefox]]
On Windows Vista and above, you can disable Flash protected mode by following the instructions on these pages:
* http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1018071#TemporaryWorkaround
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Flash#Disabling_Protected_Mode_in_Flash_11.3
(See [http://blogs.adobe.com/asset/2012/06/inside-flash-player-protected-mode-for-firefox.html this Adobe blog post] for technical details about Flash protected mode.)
For recent updates for Adobe Shockwave Flash, please update your version to 14.
Please refer to the security updates [http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-18.html and Adobe Security Bulletin] for more information.
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<!--[version 13]Please refer to these security issues [http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-13.html and Adoble Blog post] for more information on the security update. -->
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-Ryanbart