crashing while using flash player

It has been happening regularly here, a complete system crash
while using flash player (in Windows XP). I suspect it has to do
with the "plugin container" thing. FlashPlayer does not cause a
crash in Internet Explorer.

 

The solution was to use Adobe's uninstall utility before updating
flash player.

uninstall_flash_player_32bit.exe

 

FYI, IE has a different Flash plugin to Firefox and other browsers.
What happens in IE means nothing for FF, because the Flash plugins
are different.

 

I was wrong there. Whether it crashed before my posting, Flash
player streaming eventually did crash when doing WatchESPN in
Internet Explorer. The solution to the problem was to use Adobe's
uninstall utility before updating flash player. Apparently prior
versions of flash player were getting in the way of the update.
After doing the uninstall and then the update, WatchESPN actually
looked different when it was started. That was a good sign that
things were very different. After that, clicking around on the
WatchESPN flash player streaming media slider has caused only one
crash, but this time flash player crashed without bringing down my
whole system.

 

Flash player is still fishy. It appears to interfere with
operating systems stuff. My guess for a motive would be because
Adobe wants to enforce some intellectual property rights, without
respect for the user.