Arrow Keys Not Working in Flash

Ever since a few months ago any flash game that utilizes the keyboard has not been working for me. Sometimes the other keys work fine, but for the most part the arrow keys and the rest don't. They work perfectly outside of flash games for anything else. This isn't just one specific flash game, or site that I'm playing on. It goes for all flash games, and web browsers. The only go-around solution I found was using an app to download the .swf file to my hard drive and play it. Thats the only way I've gotten it to work, but I don't want to do that with every game of interest I come across. Does anyone have a proper solution?