“Users of Adobe Flash Player for Android 10.3.186.6 and earlier versions should update to Adobe Flash Player for Android 10.3.186.7,” Adobe outlines. Mac users can grab the latest Flash. Note that because this is an old version of Flash adobe flash player for mac os x 10 4 11 PPC Macs, it may be subject to security holes and its advised that you upgrade to an Intel Mac. However, this Flash version won't work for many videos on Facebook, YouTube and other sites. Re: Adobe Flash Player para Mac OS X 10.6.8 maria__ Jun 8, 2018 10:22 AM ( in response to josm49417163 ) As I mentioned before, while OS X 10.6 is no longer supported, we do not explicitely block installation on it.
Christmas has come early for Mac users. Adobe wants you to see what Adobe Flash Player 10.1 looks like on your Mac. According to Mac Rumors, Adobe has released a preview release of the 10.1 Flash Player for Mac OS X that supports H.264 video hardware decoding on Mac OS X 10.6.3.
Hardware video decoding allows Flash Player to offload H.264 video decoding tasks from the CPU to deliver smooth, high quality video with minimal overhead, improving video playback performance, reducing system resource utilization, and extending battery life.
To use the new version of Flash Player, a.k.a Gala requires one of the following graphics card hardware: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, GeForce 320M, the or GeForce GT 330M. The types of Mac hardware supported right now:
- MacBooks shipped after January 21st, 2009
- Mac Minis shipped after March 3rd, 2009
- MacBook Pros shipped after October 14th, 2008
- iMacs which shipped after the first quarter of 2009
There are limitations right now for this beta:
- Some resolutions are not supported. Specifically YouTube does sometimes provide a resolution of 864 * 480 pixels for their 480p content which forces a software fallback.
- Resolutions smaller than 480 * 320 pixels are not accelerated on NVIDIA GeForce 9400M based Macs. On NVidia GeForce 320M and GeForce GT 330M the threshold can be a bit higher. These choices are picked by Apple and balance power usage of the CPU vs. GPU for their particular hardware. Remember that using the GPU for video decoding does not always result in overall power savings. This is something you can only decide on based on the exact type of hardware combination and the content you are trying to play. Playing video has a fixed baseline cost in the GPU for instance which is not the case when you decode on a CPU.
- The software decoder in Adobe Flash Player is more forgiving when it comes to improperly encoded video files, it works around many issues. The hardware decoder can not handle some of these cases. You might notice that some videos will have ‘jumpy’ frames, i.e. frames are out of order (we have seen that with some files uploaded to YouTube). This is usually because Composition Time Offsets are not properly set up.
- The hardware decoder is limited to 2 instances at a time. This limit is total to the system. If you have more than 2 videos open at the time the 3rd one will fall back to software decoding. This is even the case when a video is on a hidden tab (This is another reason that hardware decoding is reserved for high resolutions).
- In the current release of Mac OS X 10.6.3 hardware accelerated decoding will sometimes stop to function until you restart Safari. We are in process to resolve this issue with Apple. But if you can reproduce this consistently with a specific URL please let us know.
How do you know if your new version of Adobe Flash Player is working? If it is working properly, a small white square will appear in the upper left corner of the video.
Adobe Flash Player 10
To try the new version, you can download it from Adobe Labs.
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Apple on Tuesday patched 28 vulnerabilities in is Snow Leopard operating system, including two in Adobe's Flash Player.
But in another example of the tension between the two companies -- sparked by Apple CEO Steve Jobs' rejection of Flash as slow, buggy and obsolete -- Adobe immediately countered by noting that Apple's Flash fixes were already outdated.
'10.6.4 update for Mac OS X includes Flash Player, but not the latest version,' said Brad Arkin, Adobe's director of security and privacy, in a message on Twitter Tuesday shortly after Apple issued the security and performance update.
Others at Adobe chimed in yesterday that Apple shipped the outdated Flash Player 10.0.45.2 with Mac OS X 10.6.4, and like Arkin, urged Mac users to download a newer edition directly from Adobe's site.
Adobe patched a pair of bugs in Flash Player 10.0.45.2 for Mac and Windows in February 2010.
The newest edition of the popular media player is 10.1.53.64, a 32-patch update Adobe shipped June 10, in part to fix a zero-day flaw that hackers have been exploiting since earlier this month.
It's not unusual for Apple to lag behind Adobe in releasing Flash Player patches to its users. Apple, unlike Microsoft , handles the distribution of Flash Player updates for its users, bundling them into its OS updates.
This was only the second time that Adobe has called out Apple over including an outdated version of Flash Player with Mac OS X, according to reviews of Adobe's security blog.
The first time was last September, when Adobe noted that Apple had shipped an older, vulnerable edition of Flash Player with Mac OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard, when that OS debuted in August 2009. Security researchers took Apple to task for bundling an old version of Adobe's software with Snow Leopard, and for 'downgrading' newer editions to the outdated software.
Apple refreshed Snow Leopard two weeks later to include a then-up-to-date copy of Flash.
This time, Mac users who manually updated Flash Player to version 10.1.53.64 since last week need not take any further action, Arkin said in a follow-up message on Twitter . '[Mac OS X] 10.6.4 doesn't appear to downgrade users that had previously updated to Flash Player 10.1.53.64, so users don't have to reapply the update,' Arkin said yesterday.
Users can check to see which Flash Player edition they're currently running by visiting the About Flash Player site . Users must run the check in each browser installed on their Macs. If they find they're running an older edition, the newest 10.1.53.64 can be installed by manually retrieving the update from Adobe's Web site.
Adobe Flash Player For Mac Os X 10.6
Seven of the 28 flaws , or 25% of the total, fixed by Apple in Mac OS X 10.6.4 were tagged with the phrase 'arbitrary code execution,' Apple's way of saying that the bugs were critical and could be used to infect a Mac with malware, including spam bots and identity-stealing keyloggers.
Among the non-Flash Player vulnerabilities addressed by Mac OS X 10.6.4 were three in its implementation of CUPS (Common Unix Printing System), three in the Kerberos authentication protocol, one in Apple's iChat instant messaging client, and one in Apple's Wiki Server software.
Mac OS X 10.6.4 also updated Safari to version 5; Apple launched the new browser June 7, patching a record 48 vulnerabilities at that time.
Apple said it addressed 16 non-security issues in Mac OS X 10.6.4 as well, including a reliability improvement for VPN (virtual private network) connections and a resolution of an unresponsive keyboard problem.
Apple last updated Snow Leopard in May, when it closed a record 92 security holes , a third of them critical.
Adobe Flash Player For Mac Os X 10.6
Users running Mac OS X 10.5, aka Leopard, also received a security update yesterday.
Flash Player For Mac Downloads
Mac OS X 10.6.4 can be downloaded from the Apple site or installed using the operating system's integrated update service.