Quick Update. OMG. I THINK ADOBE FINALLY GOT THEIR ACTS TOGETHER.
Used Yast to remove “flash player” and “pullin-flash-player”
Then downloaded the 64bit beta flashplayer 11 from here Download Adobe Flash Player 11 Beta for Desktops - Adobe Labs and copied the libflashplayer.so to my ‘browser-plugins’ directory and flash is useable again!
I think everything is fixed! All my flash player pauses/hangs/performance/response issues have been fixed as well! No more grey boxes or weird artifacts or other problems! I will continue to test. If I don’t reply to this thread in a few days, then my problem has been resolved and I would HIGHLY recommend people upgrade from flash 10.2/10.3 to flash 11!