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The "solutions" to updating Flash Player appear to go back to 2015. Any updates? Still a problem!

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I am getting a prompt to get the plug-in for Flash Player. When I go to update Adobe Flash Player it indicates that I have the most recent update, but it doesn't appear that I do. I am in a loop and can't get out of it when I try to update. The "solutions" that I see on Mozilla Support appear to go back to 2015. Has the problem been fixed. If so, why can I not get the most recent version of Adobe Flash Player to install? Thanks for any help you can provide.

I am getting a prompt to get the plug-in for Flash Player. When I go to update Adobe Flash Player it indicates that I have the most recent update, but it doesn't appear that I do. I am in a loop and can't get out of it when I try to update. The "solutions" that I see on Mozilla Support appear to go back to 2015. Has the problem been fixed. If so, why can I not get the most recent version of Adobe Flash Player to install? Thanks for any help you can provide.

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The real "problem" is that Adobe keeps releasing updates for the Flash Player - like a dozen new versions in the last 8 or 9 months, extending well back into 2014. Flash has its own internal updater, but the updates don't seem to occur (I see this on 4 Windows PC's' that I am responsible for maintaining) automatically when the device is run in a "regular user account" or only updates automatically in an Admin "user account". And a user-triggered manual update isn't present in Flash; the only "choice" in Flash is to "check monthly", which these days just doesn't make sense when Flash updates are released more frequently than that.

iirc, previous to mid-2014 Adobe Flash rarely updated, and may have gone an entire year without releasing any new versions with security patches in the years 2011 - 2013.

Plus things might seem a lot worse now since Mozilla created that Plugin Check page / system to notify users when their Plugins are out-of-date and might be posing a security risk. And the information provided there "leaves a bit to be desired" for the average user (my feeling is that it mis-informs the less sophisticated users by indicating that Mozilla is involved in the update procedure for Flash and other plugins - not just merely providing information about how to proceed.)


My advice is to use this page for getting Flash "updates". https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html Download the full EXE Installer for Windows > Plugin-based browsers - close Firefox then run the Flash installer.