my flash player

First things first, you're running a Flash Player from early 2015 in IE.  There are interdependencies between Flash Player and the browsers, and they move in lock-step with each other.  That's why we all release patches on the same day.

You'll need to install the latest Flash Player for IE.  Aside from missing hundreds of security enhancements, you're at least tens of thousands of changes behind the current state of the player.  Since Flash Player is a built-in component of IE on Windows 10, it's strange that you'd be running such an old Flash Player.  If you're not set up for Windows Update to provide automatic system updates, you should really consider it.  Flash Player updates are delivered by Microsoft via Windows Update for IE and Edge on Win10.  In fact, we may be depending on fixes in Windows 10 that you don't have yet.  Windows 10 is intended to be "evergreen", and automatically updated on a frequent schedule.  We work closely with the IE and Edge teams to stay in sync with the latest updates, but it's not feasible for us to continue backwards support (particularly on the testing front) for the long tail of dozens of possible stale builds.

Making sure that all components in the chain (OS, Browser, Drivers, Flash) are current is a really great place to start.  At the very least, it establishes the fact that we know we're at a good baseline. 

For Firefox, there's a long-standing hang related to the plugin sandbox architecture.  I'll spare you the boring details, but if you're on a 64-bit version of Windows, you should upgrade to 64-bit Firefox.  You'll get a much better experience from Flash and Firefox in terms of stability, performance and security.

Go here, and choose the variant from the 64-bit column:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/

At that point, if you're still encountering a hang, disabling hardware acceleration would be the next step in the process:

Instructions on doing that are covered in the video troubleshooting guide below:

https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/video-playback-issues.html

If you're just stuck with no Flash running anywhere, what changed?  Did you install an off-brand security suite?  Ad blocker?  NoScript? Followed some instructions that had you manually deleting files or messing with the registry?

If you're still stuck, please follow the directions in the video troubleshooting guide on providing the dxdiag report and additional information about what you tested and saw.

Dear Jeromie

Here are some of the essentials you asked for I am running Windows 8.1. It happens in both firefox and IE. I am running flash player version 16.0.0.296. Here's one page that demonstrates the problem. War Commander on Facebook | Facebook. My luck of course the day that I write this message the problem doesn't occur. I am sure it will come back though.

Andrew