Helen again. There were mistakes in my question. The instructions I got were from a link on the adobe site, and I don't know where the link was. I think I typed my email address incorrectly.

Install/Update Adobe Flash Player for Firefox: your ver. 10.0 r45; current ver. 10.1 r53 (important security update 2010-06-10) See: Updating Flash -use Firefox to download and SAVE to your hard drive (save to Desktop for easy access) -exit Firefox (File > Exit) -check to see that Firefox is completely closed (Ctrl+Alt+Del, choose Task Manager, click Processes tab, if "firefox.exe" is on the list, right-click "firefox.exe" and choose End process, close the Task Manager window) -double-click on the Adobe Flash installer you just downloaded to install/update Adobe Flash -when the Flash installation is complete, start Firefox, and test the Flash installation here: http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_15507&sliceId=1

• NOTE: On Vista and Windows 7 you may need to run the plugin installer as Administrator by starting the installer via the right-click context menu if you do not get an UAC prompt to ask for permission to continue (i.e nothing seems to happen). See this: http://vistasupport.mvps.org/run_as_administrator.htm
• NOTE for IE: Firefox and most other browsers use a Plugin. IE uses an ActiveX version of Flash. To install/update the IE ActiveX Adobe Flash Player, same instructions as above, except use IE to download the ActiveX Flash installer.
• Also see: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Flash ~~red:and~~ How do I edit options to add Adobe to the list of allowed sites

Other Issues: ~~red:You have installed plug-ins with known security issues. You should update them immediately.~~

Update Java: your ver. 1.5.0_11 (~~red:very old~~); current ver. 1.6.0.20 (important security update 04-15-2010) (Firefox 3.6 and above requires Java 1.6.0.10 and above; see: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Java-related+issues#Java_does_not_work_in_Firefox_3_6 ) (Windows users: Do the manual update; very easy.) See: Updating Java Do the update with Firefox closed.

I have had the same problem. Every time I've allowed firefox to update it's web browser (on any of my profiles- I use multiples) I've gotten the same message about Adobe Flash Player on the new Firefox Updated page.

I updated it once during the previous browser version update (last week) And I got it with this browser version update as well.

What I think this is- It is FireFox Spam. It is an Advertisement for the new version of Flash Player with the new Digital Rights Media restrictions designed to look like a Legitimate "you need to update" message. And it's encouraging us to update it so they can enact their DRM restrictions.

That's all it is. A fake You need to Update Message so they can get the new DRM restrictions implemented on your browser.

Maybe you should read this; all of it, and Google the "CVE-####-####" items:

http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-14.html

TX Guy,

I did the update. And the new version of Adobe crashes, whereas the old version I had did not crash.

Additionally since as I stated I updated my version of Adobe, with the additional firefox webbrowser update. That YOUR FLASH NEEDS TO BE UPDATED message still shows up. And I believe there have been two browser updates since the initial "Your Flash Needs to Be Updated" message started showing up after a browser update.