My system build is:
Intel i7 4770k
Gigabyte Nvidia Geforce GTX 760 4GB OC Windforce x3 Rev2.0
SLI
Gigabyte Nvidia Geforce GTX 760 4GB OC Windforce x3 Rev2.1
ASUS Z97-Pro Gamer BIOS.v.2203
Kingston HyperX Fury White (2x4GB) 1600MHz
Kingston HyperX Fury Black (2x8GB) 1600MHz
Samsung EVO 850 256GB SSD
Caviar Blue 1TB SATA III 7200rpm 64MB
Along with Logitech G502 RGB & Razer Blackwidow Chroma
All the latest drivers are updated directly from the manufacturer's website. (even bios)
Windows 10 Pro 64bit version 1511
This installation is freshly made, only couple days ago when I had format every drive in the system and cleared all primary partitions and system reserved partitions and sub-partitions to completely factory-reset the entire drives before installing Windows.
I am mostly using Firefox and its current version I'm using is 48.0
Adobe Flash Player version 22.0.r0
Now to the problem.
I was watching a video on Youtube in full screen and watched it fully. Once I tried to exit full screen weird started to happen. As first of all I couldn't get my mouse to show up on the video so I could had double-clicked out of full screen. I tried to double-click anyway and nothing happened. Then I tried to hit Esc on keyboard and still nothing. Tried to press ALT+TAB and nothing happened. Not until I hit CTRL+ALT+DELETE and opened Windows Task Manager i got to do even something on my computer. Once the Task Manager was open and I was back on my desktop I noticed Youtube was still in full screen in the background. Attempts to close Firefox or any of the open tabs was useless. Firefox was completely frozen, the program didn't even give a "Not responding message"
And on another window I had a twitch.tv stream rolling in the background which was frozen without any kind of buffer on the player to be seen. This was once again out of the hundred times I realized Adobe has frozen everything, again. So I closed the open Adobe Flash Player process from the open processes-list using the Task Manager. And once again I got an instant response, everything was working again immediately when shut down the process. The stream on twitch.tv turned gray (closed due to process kill) but Youtube started working again and was loading another video using autoplay, as Youtube uses the HTML-5 player.
But this is not entirely my point here.
I have used dozens of devices (phones, tablets, PC's, laptops) that have had possibly every kind of browser available during the past 12 years of experience with this modern technology.
And despite what device I was using, every one of them have had some kind of problem with Adobe Flash Player.
Most of the time Flash Player has been causing the browser to freeze, giving a notification that some command line is not responding--- OR, simply just freeze all the sudden. And all the cases were solved by "restarting" Flash Player forcefully by killing the process in the process-list on Windows Task Manager. (On mobile phones in some cases the only option was to reboot the phone...).
And in the worst cases Flash Player causes Firefox to crash ending up with you sending Mozilla a crash report. (Useful if it's not their fault?)
Whenever Flash Player causes my browser to freeze everything else will keep on functioning perfectly- I could launch a game and play it for hours, could launch any other application and use my internet connection without an issue while my browser sits there completely frozen. -until I kill the Adobe Flash Player process.
I have used hours upon hours googling about all these problems with Flash Player and don't seem to find any information for what is wrong,,,,,with MY computer,,,,or the BROWSER.
But now as I'm more experienced, and frustrated, I can safely say after experiencing all the devices I've come across with:
DO NOT BLAME YOUR COMPUTER
The problem is- and has always been with Adobe Flash Player- which apparently never gets fixed.
So if you really have to use Flash Player then you just have to live with the flaws it has.
If however you never desire to play Flash Player games with your browser or necessarily want to see all the videos on the internet but only want your browser to function properly- then use the adobe uninstallation-tool to uninstall Adobe Flash Player _completely_ from your computer and you WILL be happy.
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