I get to the place where I click on the flash player icon in my finder, and then it asks me for a password. I have never registered an account with adobe, so I. How To Install Adobe Flash Player in Apple Safari. See more reviews for Adobe Flash Player Adobe Flash Player is a cross-platform, browser-based application runtime that provides uncompromised viewing of expressive applications, content, and videos across browsers and operating systems. How to uninstall Adobe Flash Player. Adobe Flash Player for the Mac is a plug-in, not a Mac OS X application. When you try to uninstall Adobe Flash Player from your Mac, you might find that this plug-in is not so easy to delete. For example, you might see this message: Cannot find Adobe Flash Player in your Applications folder. When installing Flash Player (or Adobe Reader), the operating system will ask you to provide a userid & password with administrator privileges. Mac OS: When you FIRST turn on your Mac you are asked to choose an administrator password.
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Will users who do not have admin rights on their computers be able to upgrade to new Flash player version by themselves?
“Adobe recommends users of Adobe Flash Player 10.3.183.7 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris update to Adobe Flash Player 10.3.183.10,” reads their security bulletin. Adobe flash player for mac 10.7.5.
This would be interesting to know for:Windows 98Windows XP/2000/VistaMacsUnix/Linux
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Take a look at the Adobe instructions for more clarification..
I know on Linux, at least, you do not need admin privs. Flash is installed in
~/.mozilla/plugins when you use the .tar.gz ed installer script.
On Windows, I think there's only the option of doing a system-wide install so you need Administrator rights.
From the instructions for both Mac and Windows:
Installation of Adobe Flash Player may require administrative access to your PC, which is normally provided by your IT department.
May require? Thanks for being clear, Adobe =) I think it's safe to assume they do as they're both system-integrated installers. The same goes for Linux if you use the YUM/RPM installers. If you use the script, you can run it as anybody with execution rights.
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For Mac the answer is 'not really, but then again, yes' :P
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Actually he wouldn't need it. On Mac there is a directory for browser plugins. No matter if you use Safari or Firefox (or possibly another browser), it is standard or Mac that browsers search their plugins in that folder. It is named:
And as always on Mac, this directory exists twice. Once as system directory
and also once for every user
It doesn't matter into which directory a user puts a plugin, the browser will look into both. That means if I put it into the System's Library folder, all users will have the plugin, if I put it into my folder only, only my user has it.
So far the theory. The problem in practice is that Adobe doesn't ship the flash plugin as a plugin file, you could just copy into either location (why not? On Mac almost any app or plugin could just be shipped as a file. It really won't kill the user to manually copy it somewhere), but it ships an installer (I hate installers on Mac). And the installer wants to put it into the System's Library folder for all users AFAIK. To do that, it will prompt the user for the appropriate permissions and only an admin user can grant these permissions.
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For Windows: yes you need admin rights for the system to install flash player. which installs through an exe file
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I just managed to get it working for a Mac OS X without admin rights.
Adobe® Flash® Player is a lightweight browser plug-in and rich Internet application runtime that delivers consistent and engaging user experiences, stunning audio/video playback, and exciting gameplay. Installed on more than 1.3 billion systems, Flash Player is. Download free Adobe Flash Player software for your Windows, Mac OS, and Unix-based devices to enjoy stunning audio/video playback, and exciting gameplay. If you installed Adobe Flash Player, but still cannot view online videos on certain websites, you need to check Adobe Flash Player on your browsers. How to set up Adobe Flash Player on various browsers. Launch Safari and go to the Apple menu bar and click Preferences. Adobe Flash Player 31 (Win, Mac & Linux) debugger (aka debug player or content debuggers) and standalone (aka projectors) players for Flex and Flash developers. – Updated debugger and standalone versions of Flash Player. Adobe flash player 10.0 download.
Download the installer from Adobe and make sure to save it somewhere, rather than letting it automatically open. Unzip the installation archive and you should end up with 'Install Flash Player 10' mounted. Check inside that, but instead of opening 'Adobe Flash Player.pkg', right click that file to Show Package Contents.
In the folder that pops up, open Contents and look for archive.pax.gz or resources/adobe flash player.pax.gz, both seem to contain the same things. Unzip that archive.
You'll find flashplayer.xpt and flash player.plugin in there. Copy both of them to users/whichever user you are/library/internet plugins.. if you see those files there already, it's the right place, just want to replace them with the new ones, then restart your browser.
Hopefully that'll work for you.
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NO If your using Firefox Download the XPI archive of the Flash Player Plugin to your hard drivehttp://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/xpi/current/flashplayer-win.xpi
Rename the file you downloaded, called flashplayer-win.xpi, into flashplayer-win.zip Extract the files in the archive
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