Why is Adobe flash checker page still showing older version.

groze said:

Tookeri said:

groze said:

That strange, when I did use auto updates, it did it all expect Google chrome browser. That updated by Google not Adobe. I had some issues with auto-updates effecting playing of video, so I disabled all auto updates.

Yes, Chrome is an exception. Maybe it depends on what browser is default. If you have for example Firefox as default but you also have Opera, a Flash update will appear to also have updated Opera which isn't true because they share the same Flash Player. In my case I had IE as default and it never auto-updated the Flash player for Firefox/Opera. Only the Active-X version for IE.

Please describe what browsers you have and which one is default so we can figure this out. It would be terrible if the way it works on my system is the standard method. That would explain why some people have sometimes several year old Flash Players in non-default browsers.

I know the issue you may have now.
You need to download one from Adobe from firefox, install it. Then you need to download Adobe from Internet explorer and then install it. Make sure both you chose auto update. Auto updates should work from them on and it should update Opera as well. Now, if you change it never update, you will need to do the above each time you want a new version.

I asked all about which one to download a few weeks back and was told I DON'T need both , i just need the one for the browser i use .

ThrashZone said:

Yep well I might of already said this but Internet explorer 11 has flash built in so there is nothing to download except for windows updates
ie10 really does not need flash at all except on some really old websites/ youtube not included which does not require flash player at all.

Hmm, Since when does Internet Explorer have flash built in? I think you are confusing that with Google Chrome. Google Chrome does that, when you choose to update it or chose automatic update. Windows Updates does not do flash update they did way in the past when it was Macromedia but not since it changed to Adobe. I update manually. For Internet Explorer 32 bit, I download the update manually from Internet explorer at the Adobe website and then install. For SeaMonkey & Firefox. I download it from SeaMonkey from the Adobe website & then I install it, then it will update all Mozilla plugin compatible browsers.

ThrashZone said:

Since ie11

Strange, never included on my windows 7 system. I have done a clean install. Also, I never seen Adobe flash listed in windows 7 updates, even when Adobe issues updates. However, since I have UAC disabled, I am using the 32 bit version of Internet Explorer. I don't know if that would make any difference. There is a 64 bit flash that can be installed.

I thought Flash was built into IE in Windows 8.x only (and probably WTP)

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