History of Adobe Flash plugin has crashed - Prevent it from happening again

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Revision Status S Editor R Comment
Current M AliceWyman fixed template name
Approved M Angela Lazar Replace warning with template
Approved M AliceWyman {warning} Adobe Flash EOL January 2021
Approved M AliceWyman replaced Mozilla's Plugin Check page with Adobe's test page. See https://support.mozilla.org/forums/knowledge-base-articles/712532
Approved M AliceWyman linkified 64-bit version of Firefox, removed fx42 tag
Approved M Chris Ilias removed the #; before [[T:DisableHWAflash]], and "for Windows 64-bit operating systems
Approved M Chris Ilias purged pre-fx38 content
Approved   Dinesh minor changes
Unreviewed   Dinesh minor change
Approved M AliceWyman (warning note added) "Disable Flash protected mode" section does not apply to 64-bit Firefox - see discussion
Reviewed M gcbrex Added the Change Local Storage section. I have found this solution works for me, after testing all other suggestions.
Approved M Tonnes missed 1 closefirefox instance to replace (=fx36,=fx37,win8,win10)
Approved M philipp reincorporate pending changes overwritten by last edit
Reviewed M philipp one {/for} too much
Unreviewed   Tonnes Replace closefirefox template call by its content due to inserted space / newline (Win; see https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Template%3AcloseFirefox/discuss/6077)
Approved M AliceWyman Disable Flash protected mode: added win10
Approved M AliceWyman added back TOC (collapsible sections change was reverted)
Approved M Joni removed TOC so headers will appear
Approved M AliceWyman Disable Flash protected mode: reworded, added Learn More link for fx38
Approved M AliceWyman added Image:Fx38-UI-AdobeFlash-protected-mode
Unreviewed   AliceWyman Disable Flash protected mode: updated for fx38
Approved M AliceWyman Replaced Flash Protected Mode note with a warning - see discussion
Approved M AliceWyman added TOC
Approved M AliceWyman "Disable Flash Protected Mode" made a separate section for win7,win8 above "Other solutions" - see discussion"
Approved M AliceWyman added Flash Protected Mode note with link to blog post
Approved   AliceWyman minor edit (line break, removed colon)
Approved M AliceWyman Disable Flash protected Mode for fx36, win8
Approved M AliceWyman added new Template:DisableHWAflash and fixed Adobe link
Approved   Artist very minor ("Close" as button)
Approved M AliceWyman updated search summary
Approved M AliceWyman tweaked steps for fx35 to disable Flash protected mode
Approved M AliceWyman edited win7 steps to disable protected mode
Approved M ideato correct my previous fx35 win 7 + 8
Reviewed M ideato disable Flash Protected Mode for fx35 on win 7/Vista, see discussion
Approved M AliceWyman new edit based on last pending revision, removed ShareArticle template
Unreviewed   AliceWyman added another possible solution
Approved M AliceWyman {for win7, win8} added protected mode link as a "Last resort" for Vista and above - see discussion
Unreviewed   AliceWyman added "Disable hardware acceleration in Flash" - see discussion
Approved M Underpass removed unnecessary {/for}
Approved MT Michael Verdi Flash 10.3 is EOL - removed solution recommending downgrading to 10.3
Reviewed M Shahriar Araf or uninstall the crash flash player & then reinstall it
Approved M scoobidiver Allow comment in plugin crash UI in Fx 21 (bug 648675), removed note for old issue, no TOC for Linux, Flash 10.3 EOL soon
Approved M Michael Verdi added a note for localizers - much of this new version is copied from another article
Unreviewed   Michael Verdi Merging this article with the Flash 11.3 crashes article. See discussion https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/knowledge-base-articles/708810?last=49622
Approved M scoobidiver New update button label from fx15
Approved M scoobidiver FP 11.3 not on Linux
Unreviewed   scoobidiver fixed links
Approved M Swarnava Sengupta added the Share this article template
Approved M Michael Verdi New 160 character search summary, removed 3.6 content, fixed crazy {for} markup, linked to breaking Flash issues
Reviewed   oogle Problem is unique with Firefox
Reviewed   oogle Third Party Players
Approved M scoobidiver changed keywords
Approved   Tonnes remove comma, ... player->... plugin has crashed
Reviewed   Tonnes remove comma, ... player->... plugin has crashed
Approved   Богданцев Сергій When you click "About Firefox" menu item, window will open that has titile "About Mozilla Firefox" (not just "About Firefox")
Approved M Michael Verdi new phrase in the intro
Approved MT Michael Verdi New version for Fx 4.
Approved   Michael Verdi added summary and keywords
Approved   Michael Verdi Added TOC so I can link to the Disable hang protection section.

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