Recent answers to Win7/Firefox 17.0.1/latest FlashPlayer plugin/2 Flashplayer processes in Task Manager/pages hang/killing process fixes it. Help!https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/9457392013-01-01T15:26:58-08:00I'm sorry, but identifying and killing processes that are hanging in Task Manager is pretty much the2013-01-01T15:26:58-08:00pragmaticahttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/945739#answer-393558<p>I'm sorry, but identifying and killing processes that are hanging in Task Manager is pretty much the limit of my technical abilities. I'm afraid that my efforts to write a really detailed description of the problem may have led y'all to think that I have much better technical skills than I actually do.
</p><p>Sadly, I'm not a technical user at all; I'm just good at describing problems. So, while the fix clearly lies in those articles, I don't have the skills to figure out what the fix is or how to apply it.
</p><p>If someone can give me the steps to fix this, I can follow directions accurately.
</p><p>I apologize if I'm in the wrong forum, in which case I appreciate someone sending me to the appropriate help forum for my level of cluelessness.
</p><p>Thanks...
</p>Seeing two Flash processes is the consequence of running the Flash player in a protected sandbox env2013-01-01T06:25:20-08:00cor-elhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/945739#answer-393479<p>Seeing two Flash processes is the consequence of running the Flash player in a protected sandbox environment.
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<ul><li><a href="http://blogs.adobe.com/asset/2012/06/inside-flash-player-protected-mode-for-firefox.html" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.adobe.com/asset/2012/06/inside-flash-player-protected-mode-for-firefox.html</a>
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<p>Make sure that you allow the plugin-container process in the firewall.
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<ul><li><a href="http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plugin-container_and_out-of-process_plugins" rel="nofollow">http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plugin-container_and_out-of-process_plugins</a>
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