Since the Flash player is integrated into the web browser, and the Internet is full of malicious websites trying to infect your computer by exploiting known bugs in older software, it’s very important to keep the Flash player (as well as any other browser plug-ins) up to date with all the latest security patches. You can also right-click a flash screen and click “Settings…” in the menu that appears, and “Advanced…” in the dialog box to get to the Settings Manager. You can disable automatic notifications by unchecking the box telling Adobe to notify you when an update is available. Outfits as big as they are rarely end up being good, anyway. Whenever I update Flash in Windows, I always have to hunt for the exe that just installs Flash, not the Firefox add-on that installs a Firefox plugin that installs Flash.īottom line is, Adobe is not a particularly good software company. That, and following the (also time-honored, see also AOL, Symantec, McAfee) tradition of making one piece of software that fills a niche try to take over a computer and insert itself into twenty different places where it really only needs to exist in one. They’re not the first company to operate that way, nor will they be the last, but it’s going to drive them to obscurity.
SHOULD I UPDATE ADOBE FLASH PLAYER PATCH
The answer to the OP, by the way, is that Adobe isn’t terribly rigorous in terms of coding to avoid security problems, preferring to follow the time-honored tradition of waiting until a zero-day exploit is uncovered, then scrambling to patch it in a week or so. Luckily, Adobe Reader has many very viable alternatives Flash, not so much. Yes, I’m sure some people do want to open it for some reason, but I’d wager that 99% of the people that use only the free Acrobat Reader have never used the desktop icon to open it.Īcrobat Reader =/= Adobe Flash, although they are both shitty pieces of software in their own right.
And with that, why is it that every time there’s an update to a new version it feels the need to put an icon on your desktop? I can’t think of a single time in all my years of needing it, that I’ve ever wanted to open it without having a file or link to click on (which automatically opens it by association).
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