The test that you pointed to is for the Shockwave Player, which is different from Flash Player. (There's a long story from the 90's about why they both have Shockwave in the name...)
Crashes and hangs have distinct root-causes, and we would need to look at these on a case-by-case basis.
In Firefox, you can do the following:
Type about:crashes
For each crash listed, click the link to submit it, then copy the resulting URL into this thread. The first few would be helpful.
If you have steps that consistently reproduce the problem, that's also incredibly helpful. If we can reproduce a problem, it's usually very straightforward to fix. Unfortunately, intermittent, random problems with nebulous symptoms tend to linger unsolved. Flash Player is in the neighborhood of 1.5 million lines of C++ code, and we subject it to a battery of tests, including manual and automated source code analysis both by Adobe engineers, outside consultants and engineers from Microsoft, Intel, nVidia, AMD, Google, etc. It's a very heavily controlled and highly scrutinized codebase. The problems that it solves are extremely complex, and the challenge of both providing backwards compatibility and supporting 1.2 billion installations and the array of hardware that encompasses is a tremendously difficult task.
That said, specificity is key to getting the issue you're experiencing fixed. As a general rule, using a reasonably modern OS (Win7/MacOS 10.9 or higher) and a browser with a modern plug-in architecture (IE on Win8+, Google Chrome everywhere) is generally going to yield more stable results than older architectures like NPAPI where we're trying to balance modern needs with architecture from the '90s.
Again, generalities don't really help solve the specific crash that you're experiencing, when using your machine, to view the content that you frequent. The closer you can get us to reproducing a problem, by including basic information about your system and affected content, the closer we'll be to fixing it. As a guide, here's some information that would really help when looking into problems: Read Before Posting: How To Get A Useful Answer To Your Question
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