There have been some changes made in Flex 4.5 SDK that alter certain behaviors compared to Flex 4. To get the full list of issues, please refer to the Flex Backwards Compatibility document. In most cases, you can maintain Flex 4 (or even Flex 3) behavior by using the compiler argument, -compatibility-version. Adobe Flash Player When you see the installation completion movie above and text below, your installation was successful. The installation should only take a minute or two on a 56k modem. Keeping Flash up-to-date. The latest version of the Flash plugin should perform better and crash less often. To check if Flash is up to date, visit Adobe's Flash Player Help page. If it says that Flash needs to be updated, install the latest version manually using the steps in the section above. Troubleshooting the Flash. For those of you who want to enable Adobe Flash Player on your Android smartphone or tablet with latest Android 4.4.2/4.4.3/4.4.4 KitKat, here’s how to do it easily. For Windows 7 VDAs that will use Personal vDisk, install Microsoft hotfix 2614892 – A computer.

Download Flex SDK ZIP file from the Adobe Websiteor the Adobe Open Source site.

Extract the Flex SDK ZIP file to this directory. The Flex SDK contains the following directories:

/ant — Contains Flex Ant Tasks.
/asdoc — Contains helper files for the ASDoc tool that creates HTML documentation from your MXML and ActionScript source code.
/bin — Contains the mxmlc, compc, asdoc, and fdb utilities. The bin directory also contains the jvm.config file, which specifies Java settings that you can modify, if necessary.
/frameworks — Contains compiled framework classes, configuration files, and framework source code.
/lib — Contains JAR files used by the utilities.
/runtimes — Contains installers for the Adobe AIR runtime inside the air directory and installers for debug versions of Flash Player 11 inside the player directory.
/samples — Contains sample applications.
/templates — Contains HTML templates for Flash Player detection and browser integration and inside the air folder, a sample Adobe AIR application.xml file.

Ensure that the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is installed on the computer and that the java_home/bin directory is defined in the system path. JRE 1.5,or 1.6 is required.

Install the appropriate debug Flash Player from the install_root/runtimes/player/platform directory.

(Optional) When the Flash Player installation finishes, restart your computer to ensure that the updated Flash Player browser plug-in is enabled.

End of Flash support: Like other browsers and Adobe, Firefox ended Flash support at the end of 2020. Please see End of support for Adobe Flash for more information.

Adobe Flash Player is a plugin that allows browsers such as Firefox to display Flash media on web pages. Flash is often used for animations, videos and games. This article explains how to install Flash.

When you visit a webpage that uses Flash and the plugin is missing, you will see the message 'A plugin is needed to display this content' for parts of the page that require Flash (if at all):

Please Install Flash 6.0 Or Above

Follow the steps below to install the latest Flash Player plugin.

Go to Adobe's Flash Player download page and download the Flash installer.
Caution: Adobe's download page may include a checkbox for optional software (such as Google Chrome or McAfee Security Scan) that is selected by default. If you do not clear the checkbox before downloading, that software will be installed on your computer when you open the Flash installer.
When the download has finished, close Firefox. Click the Firefox menu and select Exit.Click the Firefox menu at the top of the screen and select Quit Firefox.Click the Firefox menu and select Quit.
Open the Flash installer file you downloaded and follow the instructions.

Note: If you are having problems with the Flash installer from Adobe's download page, you can use this Flash Player installer link to directly download the full installer.

Go to Adobe's Flash Player download page and download the Flash installer.
Click the Firefox menu and select Exit.Click the Firefox menu at the top of the screen and select Quit Firefox.Click the Firefox menu and select Quit.
Open the file you downloaded (i.e. install_flash_player_osx_intel.dmg).
In the Finder, open the Install Adobe Flash Player.app to run the installer, then follow the installer's instructions.

Go to Adobe's Flash Player download page.
When prompted, save the file (i.e. install_flash_player_'version'_linux.'processor'.tar.gz).
Click the Firefox menu and select Exit.Click the Firefox menu at the top of the screen and select Quit Firefox.Click the Firefox menu and select Quit.
Open a Terminal window (in Gnome, click on the Applications menu, select Accessories, and then select Terminal.)
In the Terminal window, change to the directory where you saved the file you downloaded (e.g. cd /home/user/Downloads).
Extract libflashplayer.so from the file you downloaded with the command tar -zxvf install_flash_player_'version'_linux.'processor'.tar.gz.
As the super user, copy the extracted file, libflashplayer.so, to your Firefox installation directory's plugins sub-directory. For example, if Firefox is installed in /usr/lib/mozilla, use the command sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and then enter your super user password when prompted.

Please Install Flash 6.0 Or Above

The latest version of the Flash plugin should perform better and crash less often. To check if Flash is up to date, visit Adobe's Flash Player Help page. If it says that Flash needs to be updated, install the latest version manually using the steps in the section above.

See Flash Plugin - Keep it up to date and troubleshoot problems for steps to troubleshoot the Flash plugin.

Please Install Flash 6.0 Or Above

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