updates for adobe flash player for firefox

Screenshot from the Secunia Software Inspector showing both the Unfortunately the bugs in Flash extend beyond the player itself, as I learned the hard way while trying to update a handful of machines to the latest version.

Simply viewing a Web page can infect your machine, so removing the old buggy versions of Flash is important. Those old versions were flagged by Secunia because they had security vulnerabilities (a nice word for bug, which is itself, a nice word for a mistake by a programmer).Īs I blogged about yesterday, this is now an important issue because the latest version of theįlash player fixes nine bugs, some of them critical (Adobe's term, not mine). The first time I ran the Secunia Software Inspector I almost fell off my chair at the huge list of old versions of the Flash player that were hanging around. Instead, Adobe has an uninstaller for the Flash player.Īnd why do I bring up removing old versions in the first place?īecause the Flash installer has never removed older The first three machines I tried this on resulted in three different outcomes, and the software was not removed on any of the machines. That is, trying to remove the currently installed version via the Windows XP Control Panel Add/Remove applet is a waste of time. But no.įor one, the Flash player does not play well with the other kids in the sandbox. Installing a new version of software should be trivial thing-especially for popular software such as the Adobe Systems' Flash player, which is used by millions of people every day.

Updates for adobe flash player for firefox