The other day I installed the newest version of Flash Player, which is 9.0.115.0, without really thinking much of it. Suddenly I when I went to certain sites that contained flash content, my browser would freeze and I had to force quite the app and restart it in order to continue. It was really annoying because it would be random. It wasn’t with ALL sites that contained flash, but just some of them. I noticed that if you watched a YouTube video or any other flash video, and it played to the end, that it would freeze up then as well. The last straw was when my wife went to look at her Nike+ page and that wouldn’t even load (being all flash), it would instantly freeze the browser. This happened with both Safari and Firefox.

I looked around online and couldn’t find anything on it, so I thought I’d try to revert to an older version of Flash Player and see if that fixed it. Sure enough, that did it. I just reverted to an older version of Flash Player 9 and everything is running smoothly.

Get your old Flash Player version here: http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14266

I didn’t worry about doing an “uninstall” of any sort, I just ran the old installer and restarted my machine.

Hopefully this will help others with the same problem!