Never do that because once you have Flash installed on a modern Mac, if you go to System Preferences you'll see Flash Player there. You get lots of sites that try to trick you saying, hey you need an update to Flash. This is the only legitimate place to get it. Or you can just go to and usually there's a link right there to be able to go and get it. The only safe way to get Flash is to go to Adobe's website, /flashplayer. They could be claiming to be other things like free software that you can download, updates to Mac OS, whatever but they use get Flash as their excuse to try to trick you. NEVER do that because of this problem where a lot of things are claiming to be Flash and they aren't. Don't follow any link, any ad, any popup, anything that says go here to get Flash. If you don't have Flash there's only one way to get it. But if you don't get that there could be a couple of reasons.

Click there and it will ask you Would you like to use Flash and you can say Every Time or Just Once. Now in order to use this you'll probably see something like this when you get to the page. For instance here's one of my sites, Cribbage Versus and there's a cribbage game in here that's done with Flash. But because Flash was so powerful exploits were often found, patches were issued, people wouldn't update, so Flash is on its way out.īut it's still really useful for some things like playing games. A lot of those concerns, by the way, were simply things claiming to be Flash installers and they weren't actually Flash installers. This is where they were really useful.īut a lot of security concerns forced browsers to stop allowing Flash or at least not having Flash there by default. There were places, like a lot of my websites where I had interactive games on them, that couldn't really have been done in any other way except in Flash.

Things where they weren't really necessary. There were a lot of people that over used it for little things like ads and annoying front pages to restaurant website and things like that. Unfortunately it was plagued by lots of problems. Video Transcript: So Adobe's Flash Player plugin for browsers was a great way for many years to be able to have interactive content inside of web pages. Check out Using the Flash Player In Safari at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.

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