Flash player freezing in both Safari and Firefox

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Flash player freezing in both Safari and Firefox

Ever since I updated Flash Player last week its been freezing, or hanging up, both Safari and Firefox, particularly on the homepage of Yahoo and Youtube. I somewhat believe the banner ads on these websites are the source of the problem. If you work around the homepages to other pages on the sites it works fine. Anyway I've found a workaround but its a huge pain in the ***, when the browser freezes, at least in Safari, I can open up force quit and two items will appear as not responding "Safari Web Content" and "Flash Player (Safari Internet plug-in)". If I force quit these items the browser unfreezes and every goes back to functioning as normal inside of the browser. Any idea what is going on here?

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2), Newest Flash Update

Posted on Mar 28, 2015 4:41 PM

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dominic23

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Mar 29, 2015 2:45 AM in response to oddheader

1. Force Quit .

Press command + option + esc keys together at the same time. Wait.

When Force Quit window appears, select Safari if not already.

Press Force Quit button at the bottom of the window. Wait.

Safari will quit.

2. Relaunch Safari holding the shift key down.

3. Turn off wifi and turn it back on.

Turn off Wifi. Click Wifi icon in the menu bar and select “Turn Wifi off”.

Visit another website.

You won’t have internet connection.

Turn on Wifi. Click Wifi icon in the menu bar and select “Turn Wifi on”.

Select your Network.

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