Although this is touched on briefly in other posts, I would like some report from those who were brave enough to do the update, and what were their experiences. Typically Adobe has conflicting information depending on where you look, and it was someone on another thread that actually pointed me to a statement that the update is supposed to apply for 10.5.8 and the latest Safari update, and pointed me to the proper update link. Elsewhere it seems like Leopard was left out altogether in the system requirements.
Based on my experience with Adobe on both Windows and Mac platforms, I am extremely reluctant to proceed as more often than not things don't work, and one has great difficulty in backtracking. In as much as Flash works perfectly now, security issue notwithstanding, I have to decide which is the larger threat: the security hole, or Adobe's wretched installation processes.
Comments most welcome.
Based on my experience with Adobe on both Windows and Mac platforms, I am extremely reluctant to proceed as more often than not things don't work, and one has great difficulty in backtracking. In as much as Flash works perfectly now, security issue notwithstanding, I have to decide which is the larger threat: the security hole, or Adobe's wretched installation processes.
Comments most welcome.
Does Mac Use Adobe Flash Player
Apple’s latest Mac OS X Snow Leopard upgrade may be getting good feedback and offer a host of new features such as QuickTime X, but it also comes with a security risk in the form of an out-of-date Flash player. You may think that’s just a problem for those who don’t keep their Flash version bang up to date, but if you have the latest Flash on your Mac; Snow Leopard will downgrade it automatically to an older, vulnerable version.
All Snow Leopard users need to be aware of this as it requires you immediately update Flash once Snow Leopard has finished installing. If you don’t then your machine will be vulnerable due to a number of fixes applied by Adobe in the last Flash update they won’t have. As you can see in Graham’s video above the version you should be running is 10.0.23.18 where as you will be running 10.0.23.1. Adobe has also blogged about this with David Lenoe posting:
Worse, say experts, is that Snow Leopard silently 'downgrades' once-secure editions of Flash Player to the buggy version that ships with the Mac OS X 10.6 operating system upgrade.
The initial release of Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) includes an earlier version of Adobe Flash Player than what is available from Adobe.com. We recommend all users update to the latest, most secure version of Flash Player (10.0.32.18) — which supports Snow Leopard and is available for download from http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer
Adobe Flash Player For Imac Sierra
Read more at Graham Cluley’s Sophos blog
- Apple posted Mac OS X 10.6.4 this past Tuesday, five days after Adobe released the final version of Flash Player 10.1 The Snow Leopard update patched a number of system bugs and a bunch of issues.
- If you don't have an Intel Mac running OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard or later, you can also download Adobe Flash 10 for PPC Macs and Adobe Flash 9 for Mac OS X 10.1-10.3.
- Flash Player 10 and Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Posted on September 2, 2009 by Tom Barclay The initial release of Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) includes an earlier version of Adobe Flash Player than what is available from Adobe.com.
Download Adobe Flash Player For Mac Os X Snow Leopard
Matthew’s Opinion
The way to have stopped this from happening was for Apple to add an update check at the end of the installation procedure for Snow Leopard. Even if the discs shipped with the most current version of Flash tomorrow that could be out of date meaning this was going to happen anyway eventually. The alternative to an update check would be to not include Flash as part of the installation then users will either be left to download Flash themselves or be left with whatever Flash version they were already using on the system.
Adobe Flash Player For Mac
The update process for Flash in general could be handled a lot better by Adobe themselves. Give users a number of ways to automatically check they are up-to-date other than visiting the Adobe website. Why not have a Firefox plug-in, a desktop app, or even an e-mail notification system users can sign up to? Do any of those exist and I just haven’t come across them?
Flash Player
My solution in Windows is using Secunia PSI which automatically checks and informs me when Flash, and a host of other apps, are old.