Flash was a dumpster fire on MacOS. Apple probably would have supported it on the iPhone if Adobe had stopped it from crashing apps and made it performant on Apple's primary platform at the time (the Mac).
I remember pulling up crash logs for people showing them that Flash was in every one of the Safari crashes the wanted me to fix. I told them it was out of my hands.
Safari was a crap browser. I mean, it still is, but it used to be, too.
All the other browsers managed it fine. That sounds like a Safari problem. Which would be totally in line with Apple's modus operandi.