YES.! it seems to be only in safari. i can't use gmail at all.

YES! Safari crashes multiple times daily for me. I switched from a PC to a Mac a few months ago and have been missing my one crash a week on IE rather than my multiple daily crashes on my mac.

Yeah. The main issue is that Apple shipped the latest version of the flash player with 10.5.2 and it seems to perform horribly by all measures. You can manually install build r47 for Intel which was the version included in the base 10.5 installation by grabbing the previous releases archive from Adobe.

(This is the url for reference http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/installers/archive/fp9_...)

I just want to concur that I am having the same problems. And actually was thinking conspiracy last night as I was trying to read some articles on ESPN. Apple has suggested in their forum that it has something to do perhaps with daylight savings time. I think Adobe is just trying to say F U.

This was happening to me on Saturday night (pre DST) on my PPC PowerBook (yes I know that's redudndant, just trying to get the point accross that this may not be an Intel only issue), and my wife's PB was just fine. I ended up doing a Safari Reset and Clear Private Data in Firefox along with resetting the laptop. Upon reboot, everything was back to normal.

Hope this helps,
Larry

On one of the Apple forums, a guy from ESPN.com wrote that the problem was already fixed and all you had to do was restarted your mac. I hadn't done so in about 2 weeks or so. So I did and everything worked fine.

Don't know why it started in the first place, but it is working great now

~Nickk

Loading my personalised iGoogle page in Safari crashes me out every time now

Yes. ALL DAY LONG.

And all the people that crate their websites in Flash? I have always left before it loads. You people are nuts. Such a COOL website. BBUT THEY NEVER WORK.

These Flash sites make the user/visitor go through hoops to just navigate. I leave.

I hate Flash. Yes. it's all flash and no functionality.

This was problem that went from Friday March 7th to 12 noon on Saturday March 9th Eastern time. I have 3 macs and it was happening on all 3 and I called to seperate buddies and the same thing happened on theirs. It was def a plug in issue. By 12 noon on the 9th it was fixed though, havent had an issue since.

does anyone wonder how it broke and then how it was fixed? Did you have to install something new which broke it a few days ago and then install yet another update last night?

I dont think that happened so how does something break and get fixed around the globe without user interaction?

I bet the plugin talks to some adobe server that went down. That'd the only explanation I can think of.

This was driving me crazy on Friday. A simple restart fixed it right up.

I've never had any problems with Flash. ESPN.com loads fine for me, and I play a lot of Flash games on Newgrounds. No crashes or beachballs in Firefox or Safari. Using a white IiMac with 10.5.2.

I updated my permissions and restarted my computer and everything is fine now I was having the same problem with firefox also.

Specifically, every time the Daily Telegraph site serves up the ad for the new Elbow album, bang goes Safari.

Best approach is to downgrade to 9.0.47. Flash archive files available at:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14266&slice...

In the Archive package one version is for PPC machines, the other Intel:
For Flash 90.47 open the "9r47 Folder". There, either select Flashplayer9r47_mac.dmg if you are using a PPC machine, or flashplayer9r47_ub_mac.dmg.zip if your machine is Intel based.

Important to "repair permissions" via Disk Utility after the Flash reinstall.

Select the first Flash package listed - Flash Player 9 (74.5 MB).

My Firefox has been crashing lately... not sure if  it's Time Capsule or Adobe...

everything works fine here on an intel mb with latest safari

lucky me i guess

Using MacPro 2x2.8 Quad Core Intel Xeon. Having no issues at all. Everything has been working flawlessly.

No probs here at all. Xeon Mac Pro 3.0 Quad and iMac G5 2.1.

This is not an Apple thing, but a Flash on Unix thing.  We're a large Linux shop here at work and have this exact same issue on ALL our linux boxen.  Now as more and more of the desktops are going over to OS X, we're seeing the exact same issues there.  This crash also appears browser agnostic (seen it on ALL firefox/seamonkey browsers in Linux, and both firefox and safari on Mac).  In my experience Adobe Flash support/quality on Unix has been HORRENDOUS.  This crashing occurred about when they released Flash 9 beta, to replace the ancient Flash 7 (I think it was), which was the only one available for Unix.  So.....  we traded in out of sync audio for periodic crashing. 

All day long. Each time I send the report into Apple.

ALL DAY LONG.

I hate Flash. I hate Flash websites. I literally will not patronize a site made in Flash. Not because of the crashing of Safari. Because Flash designed sites make using and accessing the site more difficult for the user,

Don't patronize Flash sites everyone. Because it's a stupid way to design a website.

Last Friday or Saturday, before seeing anything on web about this issue, I found my browsers crashing constantly. Having recently installed Content Barrier by Intego, I thought that might be the problem. I uninstalled it, then re-installed it. Not a singly crash since then. I wonder what might have caused the fix?

Seth you say turning off viewing invisible items in the Finder fixed your problem!

Please explain what the flash plugin has to do with the Finder?

I'm pretty sure that is just a coincidence.

yes that worked for me too! Not sure why though?

No problem here .. iMac G5, Tiger up to date. The flash porno sites still work great!

New version of flash is crashing seamonkey plugin list, and some of the functions on the websites doesn't works. So for seamonkey works only 9.0.45 or 9.0.47.

I have an Intel Apple Mini with Mac os 10.04.05 and simply going back to FP 9.0.47 would no make any difference from FP 10. However, downgrading further to FP 9.0.20 did the trick and everything works perfectly now: no more crushing browsers! By the way, I decided I'll never do any upgrade anymore, until I check this and other forums. For instance: Apple can keep its latest Safari, I am sticking to the old one. Good luck to everyone!