Adobe has put out Flash Player 9 for Linux and Mac OS X. I received that news with some mixed emotion: do I care? Well, sure it's important that Mac and Linux get some Adobe love, but I can't think of a single site I need to visit where I'd be forced into Flash to view it. People do use Flash, yes, but nobody is dumb enough to use ONLY Flash. Well, maybe not quite nobody, but nobody I need to visit. I've removed all Flash here - too many issues. But heck, might as well go get it, right? Or can't hurt too much. So off to Adobe land to get Flashed. Browser making compaines like Google ( chrome) and Microsoft ( Internet Explorer ) understands the importance of wide spread flash content. But you don’t need to worry about downloading flash. To make browser understand all this content we need a piece of software called Flash plugin. Why do i need adobe flash player for mac. There is a lot of content spread over internet that is intresting and entertaining but it can't be run by simple web browser. So if you want to play games on facebook, or watch videos on Hulu etc you need Flash plugin. The Mac Version was easy to find and easy to install. The download link at took me right to it and the install was a zip that unpacked to a.dmg that had the installer. Couple o' clicks and done. Piece of cake. However, Adobe has indeed such a SWF player, but, for our confusion, it is rather hard to find. It's called Adobe Flash Player Projector Content Debugger or Adobe Standalone Flash Player. Adobe Flash Player is a free software plug-in used by web browsers to view multimedia, execute rich Internet applications, and stream video on your Mac. Free Adobe Flash Player For MacNot so for Linux, of course. The download link from the products page gives you Flash Player 7 (or at least did so as I write this). Nope, if you want 9, you need to go to. And then, because it's Linux, and there's no reason for standards, you have to figure out where your distro wants browser plugins installed.
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