Adobe Fixes Flash Player Crashes in Firefox, after Two Weeks

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- A Flash update fixes Firefox crashes
Adobe has updated its latest Flash Player plugin to finally fix the crashes that have been plaguing some Firefox users. Flash 11.3, released a couple of weeks ago, introduced the sandbox to Firefox. The feature is a great security improvement, but it also caused problems for some users, notably those that used plugins to rip video and audio content from Flash streams. Mozilla and Adobe worked on the issue for quite a while, more than a week, but were only now able to fix the problem entirely. Both companies had published workarounds and advised users to downgrade Flash as a last resort. Flash Player 11.3.300.262, now available for download, was released solely to fix the issue. If you've been having problems you'll probably want to grab it now and not wait for the automatic update.
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Comment #1 by: DeeDee on 25 Jun 2012, 20:59 UTC

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I had been having a lot of problems with Adobe crashing on me. I am not very smart when it comes to computers, so when I saw this new download, I thought great, I won[t have to put up with crashes again. Well, guess what, I still have just as many crashes as I did before. I am really thinking that it didn't download for me, but I think I checked and it said I did. Don't know why it still crashes.Maybe someone can help me as there isn't anywhere to write to them about it---that I can see. I am just tired of all the crashes.

Comment #2 by: * @adobe on 05 Jul 2012, 14:04 UTC	reply to this comment
still crashes.. nothing's fixed

Comment #3 by: Pe_ed_off on 01 Aug 2012, 23:31 UTC	reply to this comment
Still crashes.......useless 'fix'.

Comment #3.1 by: Vexed on 17 Aug 2012, 15:41 GMT

Same behaviour: Flash regularly locks up or crashes. (Vista + Firefox 14.) It wouldn't be nearly so bad if the freezes didn't also make Firefox unresponsive. Regardless, whatever fixes have been made are not the complete solution.

Comment #4 by: Tina L Dinaro on 14 Oct 2012, 00:01 UTC	reply to this comment
my computer still crashes and freezes

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