The most common error I’ve seen is because when users click the ‘Flash out of date’ button, they see the pop-up message and then simply click on the “OK” button at that alert, a normal response to dismiss a popup dialog in Mac OS X.

Relaunch Safari for the newest version of the plugin to load effectively, the ‘Flash out of date’ message should now be goneĮasy enough, right? It is, but many users go wrong in this process.

Follow through with the installer, when the latest version of Flash has finished updating and installing, quit out of Safari.

Choose the “Install Now” button to launch to start the download and installation process.

Uncheck the “Optional offer” otherwise you’ll wind up getting some unwanted software along with Flash Player – why does Adobe do this? Who knows.

This will redirect you to or you can visit the Adobe site manually – Important: only download Flash from the official Adobe website to get the latest version.This will summon an alert indicating “Adobe Flash Player is out of date”, be sure to choose ‘Download Flash’.Click on the “Flash out-of-date” text, typically visible in a box in Safari where a video or advertisement may appear.To get rid of the “Flash out-of-date” message in Safari, do the following Chrome uses a bundled version of Flash player that is sandboxed and automatically updates along with Chrome itself. Note: this is limited to Safari for Mac OS X only, and does not apply to Google Chrome users.

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