One of the biggest blow to Flash was announced recently when Google made the announcement that it will soon stop indexing Flash content on websites and standalone SWF files will not appear in its search results. Perhaps the biggest factor was that Adobe stopped updating it as frequently as they were required and far superior standards became the norm. Slowly the death of Flash started when modern devices like the iPhone didn’t support it.Īpple’s Steve Jobs even published his famous Thoughts On Flash write up criticising Flash’s performance. Even popular websites like YouTube used to require Adobe Flash to work. Most browser based games and interactive media heavy sites relied on Flash Player. it will now prompt us to Use Flash on this page, click on Use Flash and it will take us to our Flash website and it should be fully functional now.If you grew up in 2000s, then you would know how big Adobe Flash Player used to be. Make sure you close all open instances of Safari and open it back up and let’s go back to our webpage. It will prompt you for your admin login again, enter those credentials and click Add Helper. When it is done installing you will see a preferences page, leave it on the recommended “Allow Adobe to install updates” and click on Done. It will then prompt you for an admin login to install the app, enter this information and click Install Helper When the installer opens click the checkmark to agree to the license agreement and click on Install. You will then see a security popup warning, click on Open when you see this popup.

It will then open the Flash Player installer, you will need to double-click on the “Install Adobe Flash Player” Icon to start the install. When it is done downloading double-click on the “Install_flash_player_osx.dmg” file. When it starts downloading you will see its progress in the upper right hand corner of Safari under the Download icon.

This will take you to Adobe’s download site for Adobe Flash Player. You will be prompted with a “Missing Plug-in” page, click on the “Missing Plug-in” LinkĪ popup will come up prompting you to Download the Adobe Flash Player plug-in. Go to your website that is using Flash, for this example we will use Solution home General Tech Support Enabling Flash on a Mac using Safari

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