Adobe Flash Player 11.6.602.168

released today.

you know what to do.

no release note yet.

 

I'm very confused. I haven't had the Flash plugin installed all that long, maybe a few weeks since I installed Firefox again. My version is 11.5.502.149...now how the hell did Flash get that far ahead in releases and leave me behind when Flash is set to automatically download and install updates? Is their updater like Java and doesn't actually work?

 

Thanks.

 

@Mman,No its not like java but it still may take time to hit your system its not instant and it was just released.Best way to test it is not to force the update and let it notify you then you will no how long it takes,a day,two days etc.

@ moontan Thanks for the heads up just downloaded it for windows and OS X.

 

I understand it can take a day or two..but what was the previous version?

 

Official Adobe Flash Player beta announcement channel: https://twitter.com/FlashPlayerBeta

IMO, the betas have been working better than the stable versions. And they are updated way faster in the background.

 

Windows Update updated flash for IE10 again today (it did it a few days back for the security issue, but that was 11.3)

Today it automatically updated to the 11.6 version it seems.

 

Thanks Moontan. This is becoming very "java-ish" from Adobe's part.


Links to the full offline installers:

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Thanks for the head's up.

 

Done.

 

I better get a bigger heat sink for my cpu....

 

Applicable Adobe Bulletin:
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb13-05.html

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

For those running IE 10:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/advisory/2755801

 

Wow, that's the 3rd security update for Flash in a few weeks. I like adobe finally taking security more serious, but I hope they won't discover another zero-day vulnerability in the next days

 

i'm starting to think it's as bad a Java!

 

Thanks, and updated. Though I miss the days when Flash was around 3-5 MBs big instead of 15MB, hopefully Adobe will stop feeding the baby soon.

 

I dont know about that,java is the king of exploits.

 

It is! The very reason java is dead to me. I wish it was as easy to do without flash.

 

I agree,so as of right now there is nothing to replace flash I gather.

 

And nothing will replace Flash for a good long while. HTML5 isn't ready enough yet to take over, but even if it were you have to wait (and hope) for the rest of the web to replace all its Flash content with it. On large websites with heavy daily traffic that isn't such an issue, for the rest it may never change.

 

They really should offer an update button in their system control application ("Flash Player") that works as expected: starting the update process immediately IF there is an update available. - Also being allowed to configure the automatic update checker interval in an easy way would be nice. - But Adobe isn't, right.

 

This really isn't a bad idea at all, but you're right, if it's logical, Adobe will never do it..
On the other hand, for me at least, I don't mind getting just an update prompt, as long as it's in a timely manner. I always uninstall the old version before installing the new one anyway. Used to do the same with Java when I ran that too.

 

No kidding. I mean... if I wanted to open my browser and just download it manually I would. What's the point of even having the button there then?

As for the size of it growing... I see that as a good thing. Not taking shortcuts around code for for this app = good thing. As is getting the patches out there quicker.

But my god, make the updating process more seamless already...

 

Yes we do have to jump through hoops to get the updates,I would think buy now it would be seamless.