By Shane Cole
Monday, July 13, 2015, 06:58 am PT (09:58 am ET)

The recent tidal wave of critical vulnerabilities in Adobe's Flash Player has prompted many security professionals to call for the much-maligned software's demise, and we agree. AppleInsider shows you how to uninstall Flash from your Mac, and what to do if you can't live without it.

I have a Mac os x 10.5.8 and need the proper flash player to see videos please help me as all my efforts have not worked. Adobe Systems Inc. Have issued a new version of their popular Flash Player, informing users that updating is imperative as the platform is suffering from a number of flaws that may end up with.

TL;DR— If you're running OS X 10.6 or later, download and run this Flash uninstaller. If you have OS X 10.4 or 10.5, use this uninstaller instead.
Adobe has patched more than twenty Flash vulnerabilities in the last week— some of them days after active exploits were discovered in the wild— and issued over a dozen Flash Player security advisories since the beginning of this year. Flash has become such an information security nightmare that Facebook's Chief Security Officer called on Adobe to sunset the platform as soon as possible and ask browser vendors to forcibly kill it off.
Though most exploits are targeted at Windows, Mac users are not invincible. Thankfully, Flash is easy to remove and most of your favorite sites and Web services will continue to work fine without Flash installed. YouTube, Netflix, and a host of others have either made the shift to HTML5 video or use alternative technologies, like Microsoft's Silverlight.

How to uninstall Flash from your Mac

1. Verify your OS X version by clicking the Apple icon in the upper left and selecting About This Mac.
2. For OS X 10.5 and later— Snow Leopard, Mountain Lion, Mavericks, or Yosemite— download and run this uninstaller.
3. For OS X 10.4 and 10.5— Tiger or Leopard— download and run this uninstaller

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— InfoSec Taylor (@SwiftOnSecurity) July 13, 2015

What to do if you need Flash

Adobe Flash Player For Mac Os X 10.5.8

If you find yourself with absolutely no choice but to use Flash— maybe you have a Flash-based business application— the safest course of action is to install Google Chrome. Chrome includes a special version of Flash that runs inside a sandbox, with updates handled by Google.
If you can't or won't install Chrome, a good fallback is Marc Hoyois's ClickToFlash plugin for Safari. It will prevent any Flash content from running until you explicitly authorize it by clicking a placeholder in the page.
If you insist on keeping Flash installed and won't use ClickToFlash, at the very least make sure Flash can update itself automatically by enabling automatic updates in System Preferences →

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Flash Player. Then perhaps you should take a long, hard look at your life choices.

If you're using an out-of-date version of the Adobe Flash Player plug-in, you may see the message “Blocked plug-in,” “Flash Security Alert,” or “Flash out-of-date” when attempting to view Flash content in Safari.

Clicking the indicator displays a message that Adobe Flash Player is out of date:

To continue viewing Flash content, update to a later version of Adobe Flash Player:

1. Click the Download Flash button. Safari opens the Adobe Flash Player page on the Adobe website.
2. Follow the instructions on the Adobe website to download and install the latest version of the plug-in.

Adobe Flash Player For Mac Os X 10.5.8 Download

If you need to use an older version of Flash Player, you can use Internet plug-in management in Safari to run the plug-in in unsafe mode for websites that you trust.

Contact Adobe if you need help downloading, installing, or using Adobe Flash Player.