re: what's the fricking deal with Firefox and flash?

I've been having issues with the plug-in - no question. Several will be running in processes - and the update made it only a little better. Something with the most recent change to flash, IMHO, but Firefox updates have gotten fairly frequent, of late, and that's usually not a good sign - some fundamental problem they're having to patch over and over.

And I'm an early adopter - I think I was using Firefox at version 0.5 or 0.6 - never seen it as buggy as hit has been with flash the past couple of years, really.