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Adobe Flash has caused many problems in the past, with critical vulnerabilities frequently being exposed and Adobe regularly being required to release security updates. Find out here how to install the Flash Player plug-in on Safari for Mac. Not your web browser? Go back to the Flash Player plug-in page to select your browser. Adobe Flash Player. By clicking the Download now button, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to the Adobe Software Licensing Agreement.
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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. Adobe Flash has caused many problems in the past, with critical vulnerabilities frequently being exposed and Adobe regularly being required to release security updates. Adobe Flash Player for Mac lets you access Flash content in Web sites when using browsers like OS X's Safari. The plug-in integrates seamlessly and through a. Next to Allow Plug-ins you’ll see the Manage Website Settings on which you’ll click, then you’ll select Adobe Flash Player and choose “Allow” from the “When visiting other websites” menu.
Apple on Wednesday patched four security vulnerabilities in Safari and blocked outdated versions of Adobe's Flash Player from running in its browser.
The Flash blocking move was similar to one Apple made last month when it stopped the Java plug-in from launching automatically.
Safari 5.1.7, which runs on OS X 10.6 and 10.7 -- Snow Leopard and Lion, respectively -- as well as on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7, was released alongside another update for Lion that included a slightly-older version of the browser. Lion users must download and install both updates to push Safari to version 5.1.7.
The four security flaws fixed were the same ones patched Tuesday in iOS 5.1.1 for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. All were labeled as bugs in WebKit, the open-source rendering engine that powers Safari as well as Google's Chrome.
In fact, one of the vulnerabilities was first revealed by a researcher at the 'Pwnium' hacking contest Google hosted last March. The researcher, Sergey Glazunov, was awarded $60,000 for pairing the flaw with another bug to bring down Chrome.
Glazunov was credited by Apple with reporting a second WebKit vulnerability, while another was attributed to a pair of engineers on the Chrome security team.
Along with the four patches, Apple also yanked Adobe's Flash Player from Safari if the plug-in was older than version 10.1.102.64, which released in November 2010. Since then, Adobe has shipped Flash Player 11 for the Mac. It has also continued to maintain the older version 10, which now stands at version 10.3.183.19.
'This update disables Adobe Flash Player if it is older than 10.1.102.64 by moving its files to a new directory,' Apple's advisory stated Wednesday. 'This update presents the option to install an updated version of Flash Player from the Adobe website.'
Apple stopped bundling Flash Player with OS X in the fall of 2010, but users have been free to download and install the plug-in on their own. Microsoft last distributed Flash with the nearly-11-year-old Windows XP. Neither Windows Vista or Windows 7 included a preinstalled version of Adobe's software.
Blocking Flash was the second such move by Apple in a month: On April 12, the company issued an OS X update that disabled automatic execution of Java applets by the Java browser plug-in. Apple took the step because of Flashback, a malware family that used a Java vulnerability to infect hundreds of thousands of Macs in a spree that still continues.
'As a security hardening measure, the Java browser plug-in and Java Web Start are deactivated if they are unused for 35 days,' Apple said at the time.
Java Web Start is an Oracle technology that lets users single-click launch a Java app from within a browser without first downloading the app to the machine.
And Apple wasn't the only browser maker to recently block Adobe software. On Friday, Mozilla added the Adobe Reader plug-in to its Firefox blocklist, citing compatibility problems that resulted in blank pages appearing when users clicked on a link to a PDF document.
Mozilla maintains a blocklist for extensions or plug-ins that cause significant security or performance issues in Firefox. The browser automatically queries the blocklist and notifies users before disabling the targeted plug-in.
According to Mozilla, it's working with Adobe on a fix to Reader but will keep the plug-in on its blocklist until one is available.
Safari 5.1.7 can be downloaded from Apple's website. Mac users will be notified of the new version automatically by OS X's Software Update, while Windows users already running Safari will be alerted by a separate tool bundled with the browser.
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Make sure your Mac OS X is up to date.
Open System Preferences > App Store then select Updates then click Check Now.
Best way to avoid malware or adware is to keep your Mac's system software up to date.
And you can check for Adobe Flash updates in System Preferences > Flash Player > Updates > Check Now
Remember to never download a Flash update from anywhere but the Adobe website.
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And make sure GateKeeper is setup correctly. Open System Preferences > Security & Privacy. Make sure: Mac App Store and identified developers is selected. If that area is grayed out, click the gold padlock icon to proceed. You may be prompted for your admin password. When you're done, click the gold padlock icon again to close it.