

Adobe Flash Player End of Life ( EOL, original global variants).Windows, macOS, Linux, ChromeOS, Solaris, BlackBerry Tablet OS, Android, Pocket PCĬhinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, Korean, Turkish, Xhosa, Telugu, Vietnamese, Afrikaans, Yiddish, Zulu, and Arabic Windows, macOS, Linux, ChromeOS (Global variant, excluding China)ģ2.0.0.465 / December 8, 2020 2 years ago ( ) Windows, macOS, Linux ( Harman enterprise variant)ģ4.0.0.137 / April 13, 2021 2 years ago ( ) For the file format sometimes referred to as "Shockwave Flash", see SWF.ģ4.0.0.289 / June 13, 2023 34 days ago ( ) However, the webpage itself does not indicate this."Shockwave Flash" redirects here. This dialog only seems to occur after having been running Firefox the previous day. This is happening on both a Windows XP desktop and a Windows Vista laptop.ĮDIT: I suspect the 2nd method, that takes me to the website, is related to the Flash plugin in Firefox.

In fact, I don't when it takes me to the website, because "it looks a bit dodgy to me!?"

So, why are there apparently two different update methods for what appears to be the same thing? One is nice and swish and integrated into the updater, the other more long winded. What is this for? Why didn't it download and install in the "usual" way? Which presents me with an button (and to install McAfee!). However, sometimes when I hit the button it takes me to the website: Usually when I hit the button it downloads the update straight away with a progress bar that zips across the dialog. If updates are required the Adobe dialog pops up with a button.

Adobe Flash Player checks for updates at startup.
