
Welcome to the festering cesspool of malformed WMV files and Real Media. Good work, Adobe, you have been shoved off into my computing ghetto, and in time you'll get booted out of there as well.
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to not auto-update (yeah, what could go wrong there, Adobe?) so that I can vet their latest version first before I blindly accept some of the releases that had such serious flaws that they needed to be updated the very next day? Why do fresh installs of Flash default to accessing to my computer's camera, microphone, storage, and peer-to-peer networking for fuck's sake?Īs it is, I only run Flash on a separate machine whose sole purpose is to run legacy software and take the hits so that my primary machine stays relatively unspoiled.
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We will continue to work with the browser vendors to remove this restriction and reduce restarts as much as possible.Ĭlick to expand.Why is Flash such a special snowflake that it requires all this poorly-coded installer crap? Why does it require admin access, instead of the option to install it on a per-user basis? Why is it I have to reset the update preferences every. Other browser may end up using the previously installed version of Flash Player until a restart is performed. Simply refreshing the webpage or opening a new tab in Firefox will detect and use the new Flash Player version. For example, Mozilla Firefox does not require a restart. Please move me if necessary and Im sorry for bothering Anyway, Im still new to my MBP and. This restart requirement is dependent on the browser. Ive been reading about Google Chrome, and Im sorry if this is the wrong area or this question has been posted before but when I searched, I found issues with it, not so much answering my question. Once the installation is completed, the user is notified that the browser may need to be restarted to use the newly installed Flash Player. However, on Windows, if a user is performing a "re-install" of the same version of Flash Player, the installer will require that the application using Flash Player be closed so that files can be unlocked and overwritten. In most cases, the same is true on Windows. On the Macintosh, the installer will no longer display a dialog to shutdown the currently running browsers or applications that are using Flash Player. This feature attempts to remove this requirement whenever possible.

We have had consistent feedback from our customers that they prefer not to shut down their browser(s) to simply install Flash Player.
