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adobe flash player installer connection error

sumeet17
sumeet17
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When I try to update adobe flash player, after installing it, I get error msg "connection error". Plz help me by giving all possible solutions/options to resolve this issue.

When I try to update adobe flash player, after installing it, I get error msg "connection error". Plz help me by giving all possible solutions/options to resolve this issue.

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hi, please use the offline installer of flash from http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html (for firefox you'd need the windows exe-installer for "plugin based browsers")

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  • Question details
    Product Firefox
    Topic Fix slowness, crashing, error messages and other problems
    System Details
    • Windows 7
    • Firefox 38.0

Additional System Details

Installed Plug-ins

  • Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape 15.7.20033
  • Citrix Online App Detector Plugin
  • Facebook Video Calling Plugin
  • GEPlugin
  • Google Update
  • Picasa plugin
  • Shockwave Flash 17.0 r0
  • Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in, version 12.1.5.155
  • 5.1.40416.0
  • iTunes Detector Plug-in

Application

  • User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0

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hi, please use the offline installer of flash from http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html (for firefox you'd need the windows exe-installer for "plugin based browsers")

hi, please use the offline installer of flash from http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html (for firefox you'd need the windows exe-installer for "plugin based browsers")
sumeet17
sumeet17
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bingo....issue resolved...thanks for the support

bingo....issue resolved...thanks for the support