Are you tired of seeing an update like this on your Mac? Adobe asks you to download and install an update to Flash Player because they have made some significant improvements in the new version? Years ago, Adobe confirmed that they have a major security vulnerability related to Flash Player, as discovered by and reported. There doesn't seem to be signs that those vulnerabilities are completely fixed as Adobe keeps releasing new versions for their Flash Player app. While updating Flash on Mac is just a few clicks away, I found the process tedious and most of the time — unnecessary. Because unlike the old days we had to use Adobe Flash Player to view web videos as they were mostly encoded in Adobe’s proprietary Flash format. These days modern web browsers (i.e. Safari, Chrome, Firefox, etc.) all work seamlessly to YouTube, Vimeo, and many other live streaming web services — leaving Flash Player off the table. So, it makes sense to uninstall Adobe Flash Player from your Mac so you won't be bothered by the annoying updates and potential security issues. In this article, I'm going to show you how to do that step by step. Note: two methods are introduced in case the first one doesn't work out. Method 1: Remove It with Adobe Flash Player Install Manager Please note that the screenshots below are taken from Flash version 29, based on macOS High Sierra. ![]() If your Mac is running an earlier macOS or an older version of Adobe Flash, minor user interface differences may apply. Step 1: On your Mac, go to Applications > Utilities, find this app 'Adobe Flash Player Install Manager'. Click to run it. This is the recommended yet standard method for deleting Flash Player from a Mac. Google has shipped a stronger Flash Player sandbox for the OS X version of Chrome, making good on an August promise to ship a Mac browser better able to ward off exploits of the Adobe software. The Pepper Flash interface is used on Windows, Linux and Chrome OS. OS X, however, is still using the older NPAPI interface for the Flash player plugin. For more, see my blog Explaining the confusion over Flash versions. Sometime between September and December of 2012 OS X was upgraded to a Pepper-based Flash Player. It should take you less than a minute to complete. The only downside of this method is that once you uninstall Flash Player, you end up with installing another Adobe app — the Helper tool. But if Method 1 didn't work out for you, turn to the second method — it's even quicker. Method 2: Uninstall Flash Player with CleanMyMac, is an app developed by that aims to make Mac cleanup and maintenance easy. While its core features are related to cleaning, the app also allows you to quickly uninstall third-party apps or extensions in batch, and removing Adobe Flash Player can be achieved easily as well. Here's how: • and install the app on your Mac. On the left part of the main panel, find Extensions > Preference Panes, there you should be able to find 'Flash Player'. • Select it and click the 'Remove' button. Pretty easy, right? It's worth noting though, CleanMyMac isn't freeware (it has a free trial). We use the app quite often on our Macs and it works amazingly well and has saved us tons of time handling complex/techy tasks such as freeing up disk space, cleaning third-party apps or launch agents, finding large old items, and more. The app is definitely a productivity booster for most Mac users, especially if you are not a computer person. Additional tip: Adobe actually has in case you failed to install or uninstall Flash on your Mac. For example, an error message appears. There you'll find detailed troubleshooting guide. Alright, now that we've shown two ways to get rid of Adobe Flash Player from your Mac. Are they helpful? Or do you have another 'secret' way to help get the job done? Either way, leave a comment below and let us know. Google’s Chrome browser has long released with a built-in Flash Player plug-in—the result of a technology partnership between the Internet giant and Flash maker Adobe. Though Adobe still allows customers to download a standalone Flash Player plug-in for Windows, OS X or Linux, the company announced today that the Flash Player plug-in for Linux after version 11.2 would only be available with Chrome browser distribution. The Linux plug-in will no longer be available as a direct download from Adobe. While one could suspect this news foreshadows broader policy changes on Windows and OS X, Adobe insisted that is not the case. Flash Player will continue to support browsers using non-”Pepper” plugin APIs on platforms other than Linux. Additionally, it will continue supporting Flash Player 11.2 on Linux for years to come. “Adobe will continue to provide security updates to non-Pepper distributions of Flash Player 11.2 on Linux for five years from its release,” wrote the company in a The so-called “Pepper” implementation of Flash Player is an API for hosting plugins within the browser.
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