I was having some confusion after reinstalling Firefox today after it freaked out on me. It kept telling me it was using Flash player 9 something when I had updated and installed to the latest one. So I couldn’t figure out where it was even coming up with Version 9 and I also had some confusion about different versions for different browsers?
From what I can figure IE and whatever browsers that are similiar use active X controls where Opera and Firefox do it as a plugin. No where on Adobes site can I find anything explaining this, however when I went to download the flash player in IE, it offered me options it didn’t in Firefox, like for which browser. So I downloaded both. Uninstalled the previous version using Adobes uninstaller because that seems to be the only way that works.
Where did I learn all this from? I’m glad someone is on the ball here. Go read these three articles at cnet: A heads-up on Abobe Flash Player, Black-eyes for Adobe and Time to update Flash player. Here’s how. Then I went to Secunia Scan like he recommended and found out that my Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Bridge, Adobe Contribute, and the recently installed Adobe Air were all using outdated versions. Yeah, I guess I should get around to those upgrades, huh? I don’t use Flash through those except Adobe Air for my Tweetdeck. But it also found other things that needed updating like my Java, so it’s worth the scan.
I’m happy to say my Flash appears to be using the latest version everywhere now. What a hassle, I’m not believing there isn’t more information about this out there.
Here are a couple links that may be helpful –
Version test for Adobe Flash Player – this link will tell you what player version your browser is using: http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_15507&sliceId=2
This link provides the download links for the different browsers – but you need to use that corresponding browser when dowloading the player: http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/alternates/
Kat
Good links to keep on hand, especially the one for the browsers, no where did I find that or even read about it until I stumbled on it by accident.
Hey, great information here, thanks from all of us who are less savvy. I guess it’s time to check on Firefox, if you’re not having trouble..maybe they’ve got an upgrade for the version I had to downgrade from, lol. I get adobe “must use the latest flashversion” or similar a lot so this is going to be very helpful. Soon’s as I get a bit more lessonage done.
Thanks for centralizing what you found out!
Cheers,
pete
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Hope some find it helpful, Sheesh it took me the better part of the day to find those links and figure out what was going on. I kept uninstalling, reinstalling, rebooting. Was getting pretty annoyed 😉 Good luck when you get at it, I won’t hold my breath thinking this will solve troubles for everyone. They need to be so much clearer.