Speaking of Firefox, it too had a problem installing Flash. Since the Adobe article does not say when it was written, when it was last updated or when it was last reviewed, I can only assume that back in the 1970s Chrome did work that way. Adobe was wrong, Chrome does not fall back, it complains that Flash is disabled. So, I installed the latest Flash for Firefox and disabled Flash in Chrome. Then I made the mistake of trusting Adobe.Īn article on their web site, Flash Player with Google Chrome, says 'If the built-in Flash Player in Chrome is disabled, Chrome uses the downloaded plug-in version of Flash Player if it is installed on the user’s system'. Still, however, Chrome was using the old version of Flash. On another Windows 7 computer the history of scheduled tasks was enabled and it showed both tasks had been happily chugging along. Manually running this task also failed to update Flash. The hourly task is called 'GoogleUpdateTaskUserS-1-5-21-3588425011-2520465182-2943837927-1004UA' and it runs the same GoogleUpdate.exe program only without any parameters.

I force it to run by right clicking on the task. All web browser users can check on the latest version of Flash, as well as their installed version, at two Adobe tester pages: /software/flash/about and /flash-player/kb/find-version-flash-player.html Bill Clinton must have been right, there are multiple definitions of 'is', because it certainly is not up to date.Ĭhrome considers Flash a 'plugin' and Chrome users can see the version of installed plugins by entering either 'chrome://plugins' or 'about:plugins' in the address bar. This, despite the fact that Chrome reports that it is up to date (version. Yet, here I sit three (going on four by the time this was published) days later with Chrome on Windows 7 still using the old version (11.8.800.170) of Flash. That same day Google announced that 'We are updating Flash Player to version 11.9.900.117 on Windows and Mac via our component update system (i.e. Three days ago, on October 8th, Adobe released a new copy of the Flash player, version 11.9.900.117 (see the Release Notes and Announcement).

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