Is it safe to download Adobe Flash Player on my MacBook Pro? Discussion in 'macOS Sierra (10.12)' started by LillaK, Aug 15, 2017. AmiMoJo writes 'MacBook Airs are no longer shipping with Flash. Apple spokesperson Bill Evans said: 'We're happy to continue to support Flash on the Mac, and the best way for users to always have the most up to date and secure version is to download it directly from Adobe.' Direct Download Links for New Adobe Flash Player 11.9 and AIR 3.9 75 comments In continuing to provide the direct download links for major Adobe products such as Creative Cloud, CS6, Acrobat DC, Elements 15, and Lightroom 6/CC, below you’ll find the DDL for the brand new just-released Adobe Flash Player 11.9 (the final version). Adobe Testing MacBook Air-Optimized Version of Flash Player – Mac Rumors The ongoing spat between Apple and Adobe over Flash technology took another interesting turn over the past month as the new MacBook Air became. For the Mac, the transition from Flash began in 2010 when Flash was no longer pre-installed. Today, if users install Flash, it remains off by default. Safari requires explicit approval on each.
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There are a lot of mac users which are also facing the same problem of using flash player in the tor browser bundle. I have posted a tutorial to enable flash player for the tor browser bundle which actually is for windows users. (Learn how to enable flash player in tor browser bundle on Windows) But to be very frank that will actually not fulfill the purpose of the anonymity and that’s the reason by default the tor browser bundles don’t offer any add on to be enabled in the portable browser which is actually mozilla’s modified portable tor browser. But if your only sole purpose is to play videos on the tor, then this method is safe and you can play your videos behind a college , work or office proxy.
Enable Flash player in the TOR browser bundle on Mac (Macbook Pro or Macbook Air):
You need to follow these steps, sometimes things get updated but the way is same, so you may need to exert some brain energy while doing the steps mentioned below, I can’t spoon feed you but I can guide you to achieve your purpose, if you still get confused then ask me in the comments.
- Install Flash player on your Mac, you can get flash player’s latest version here: Download Flash Player
- You will need to choose your Mac OS X version and then choose Flash player 11.
- Just install flashplayer after that by running the setup after making the download complete.
- Once you have completed the installation you need to open this path: Applications/Install Adobe Flash Player.app/Contents/Resources/Adobe Flash Player.pkg/Contents/Library
- From the Library folder you need to copy two files: 1)Flash Player.plugin.lzma2)flashplayer.xpt (Note: if you are unable to find these files, then kindly make a search in the Resources folder, as mentioned in the path, and you will come across these two files eventually)
- Now, paste these two copied files into the extension folder of the tor browser bundle for mac, which is normally like this: /Applications/TorBrowser_en-US.app/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/profile/extensions , again if you don’t find the extensions folder, some quick search can help you out, the point is “Enabling flash player in the tor is not impossible.
- Just re-launch your tor browser bundles and go to the addons page, you now need to enable flash player add on into the tor browser. (Sometimes you need to enable this addon everytime you launch tor portable browser bundle)
That’s it you are done. Ask me anything if you don’t get this.
The ongoing spat between Apple and Adobe over Flash technology took another interesting turn over the past month as the new MacBook Air became Apple's first Mac to ship without Flash Player pre-installed. A review from Ars Technica
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noted that the battery life of the small notebook took a significant hit when browsing the Web with Flash Player installed, leading Adobe Chief Technology Officer Kevin Lynch to observe that it takes more power to display Flash content than it does to not display it, and claim that HTML5 content of a similar nature to that presented in Flash would use just as much or more power.According to
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Engadget, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen yesterday noted that the key to conserving battery life lies in hardware acceleration, and reported that the company currently has a version of Flash Player optimized for the new MacBook Air in testing.He said it's really all about optimizing for silicon: 'When we have access to hardware acceleration, we've proven that Flash has equal or better performance on every platform.' You wouldn't be blamed for thinking that sentence a cop-out, but that's actually not the case -- the chief executive says they've presently got a Macbook Air in the labs and have an optimized beta of Flash for the device presently in testing.
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Apple revised its policies earlier this year to allow for hardware-accelerated decoding of H.264 video by third-party developers on select graphics cards, including the NVIDIA GeForce 320M that is included in the new MacBook Air. Following a period of beta testing, Adobe released an updated version of Flash Player 10.1 in mid-August to officially bring hardware acceleration to a number of Mac models.Flash Player For Safari
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