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keep getting "warning...unresponsive plug-in...may be busy or may have stopped responding..."

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the warning message does not tell me which plug-in so I have no idea where to start. All my plug-ins are up to date.

the warning message does not tell me which plug-in so I have no idea where to start. All my plug-ins are up to date.

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Type about:addons<enter> in the address bar to open the Add-ons Manager. Hot key; <Control>(Mac=<Command>) <Shift> A)

On the left side of the page, select Plugins. Set all Adobe plugins to Never. Is the problem still there?

Yes and No. I am able to open the browser, but as soon as I open a webpage to view a video it wont play. A pop up window asks if I will allow and when I do, it hangs up again with the same issue.

Fred, After playing around a little, I saw that Shockwave was just updated yesterday, which is when I started having issues. I noticed in the add-ons it had a checkmark by the "enable adobe flash protected mode" When I took off the checkmark it works fine. Is that some security measure I should be leary to uncheck? Thanks again!

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That was very good work. Well done. Please flag your last post as Solved Problem so others will know.

Some security features end up just getting in the way.