Comments on: Seven steps to update the Adobe Flash Player on Windows

Updating the Flash Player is unlike other software upgrades. These seven steps are a suggested "best practices."

[Lerianis]

You can omit those first four 'uninstaller' steps. I installed Adobe Flash Player 10 on my computer, both for Firefox/Chrome and IE8, and I didn't have to run that installer and everything is working fine and dandy.

There is one thing I would tell people to do however: don't have Adobe Air installed before you install Flash Player 10. There is some sort of incompatibility according to people on Anandtech, and it crashes out the installer.

[mhinnewyork]

Yes, you do not NEED to uninstall anything, I just think you are better off insuring that the older versions are removed. Michael Horowitz

[gurepus]

oh... my... god...
this is exactly why I'm more than happy to pay the so-called "apple tax"

[gggg sssss]

of course there is less and less of value that plays in Apple's POS

[elllroy]

happily paying the tax, too.

[elllroy]

p.s. here is what you have to do on a mac:

step1: go to adobe.com and download the player
step2: close all open brwosers
step3: click "install" on a window automatically presented to you
step4: open your browser (the player is installed on all of your browsers)

i am not kidding.

[elllroy]

p.s. here is what you have to do on a mac:

step1: go to adobe.com and download the player
step2: close all open brwosers
step3: click "install" on a window automatically presented to you
step4: open your browser (the player is installed on all of your browsers)

i am not kidding.

[mhinnewyork]

I am not a Mac user, but would like to point out that Adobe has a Flash player un-installer for the Mac too. As a rule, I think computer users are best off insuring that old, buggy versions of software are all gone before installing new versions. How this is done on a Mac, I don't know, but the online Secunia scan only works with Windows machines. Michael Horowitz

[abuflan]

After I upgraded to version 10, my citicards virtual account number site did not work
("you have version 1.NaN", where actually I had had the latest version 9 until I upgraded.)
They suggested I "uninstall, and then install version 8.
Anyhow, it would be good to have a discussion of what to do when a very few essential sites do not work
with the latest, safer version. One never knows how long "temporarily" will last.

[mhinnewyork]

One thing you can do is use two different web browsers - each can have a different version of Flash, at least under Windows. The NaN is, I'm sure, a shorthand for Not a Number, a common error when computing. Michael Horowitz

[limawhiskey]

By far the easiest way to install or update Adobe's Flash Player when using Firefox is to use the add-on located at:
http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/xpi/current/flashplayer-win.xpi

The best bit? No browser restart required.

[mhinnewyork]

I tried this using a copy of Firefox with Flash v9 under Windows XP. I got a -204 error and the install failed. Michael Horowitz

[abuflan]

Re: MH response to my October 21 comment, that Flash 10 didn't work on the Citibank site
for virtual account numbers.
Interesting, the NaN being "not a number".
As to the suggestion to use different Flash versions on different browsers, I've been
doing something a little like that, by leaving ver.9 on my Mac laptop, and using the Mac
when needed. Apparently, by the way, the website is only getting the first digit
of the "10", thus concluding that one has version 1. This sounds like the traces
of a "good idea" of some sort.
Anyhow, the idea of using an earlier version of Flash on a browser that will only be used
as needed -- that sounds like the best we can do in the interim. Thanks!

[loose_screw]

Just wanted to say thanks. This post has been a valuable resource for me and my family who were having flash related issues with Chrome.

[mattumanu]

I hate auto playing video. I've said this over and over again and yet you people still have ads that play video automatically. The iPhone ad that plays at the top of the main page has no way to stop it after it starts. Therefore, I've blacklisted this site on my network for the weekend. We'll see what happens by monday.

[mattumanu]

I hate auto playing video. I've said this over and over again and yet you people still have ads that play video automatically. The iPhone ad that plays at the top of the main page has no way to stop it after it starts. Therefore, I've blacklisted this site on my network for the weekend. We'll see what happens by monday.