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Some reading material to inform you of these decisions being made by the browser vendors, not Adobe: You can inform Google (Chrome), Mozilla (Firefox), Microsoft (IE/Edge), and Apple (Safari) of your grievance as the browser company ultimately make the decision on what plugins to run, or not to run, within their browser. Most browsers are moving to HTML5 by default and configuring Flash Player to be click-to-play. Why would Adobe block their own software? This is the browser that is blocking Flash Player. I gave you instructions on how to update it manually and how to configure your system to receive automatic updates.īut getting tired of clicking 'allow and remember' for every website that asks because you have blocked it from running automaticallyĪdobe does NOT block Flash Player. Even Apple no longer supports OS X 10.8.Īdobe should have to fix that even for those who cannot update to a newer version No company has a requirement to support all platforms, they can choose which platforms to support and which platforms to drop support for. I read your complaints and replied accordingly. With this option selected, most systems are updated within 24 hours of a new version being available.

If one is found it automatically downloads it and installs it in the background with no user interaction necessary. With this option enabled, Flash Player periodically checks for an update.

This will enable your system for Background Updates which is the quickest most efficient option to update Flash Player.

For the update option you may want to select 'Allow Adobe to install updates (recommended)'.

Follow on-screen instructions to install Flash Player.

Click on the DMG file to mount the installer.

Locate Flash Player installer saved on your system.

Flash Player installer will be downloaded and saved to your default 'save to' location.In step 2 select which browser you wish to install Flash Player for.To install Flash Player on OS X 10.8, do the following: With that said, while OS X 10.8.5 is no longer supported Flash installation is not blocked. Apple themselves no longer support OS X 10.8, as the last update for 10.8 was in 2015 ( Apple security updates - Apple Support ). It is not any company's responsibility to continue supporting old operating systems, and companies routinely stop supporting older operating systems.

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