Luckily Apple's browser does not prevent the use of older versions of Flash, and merely disables them when newer versions are available.
Even though new versions of the software will contain fixes to vulnerabilities, sometimes bugs may appear that result in broken functionality or poor performance, and having this auto-disable feature will force the use of faulty updates. While this development is excellent news from a security standpoint and helps Apple regain some face after recent security mishaps on its part, some people may still wish to use older versions of Flash player for compatibility reasons.
This security feature has been applauded by Adobe's Brad Arkin, who in a blog posting stated: "We welcome today's initiative by Apple to encourage Mac users to stay up-to-date: With the Apple Safari 5.1.7 update released today, Apple is disabling older versions of Flash Player (specifically Flash Player 10.1.102.64 and earlier) and directing users to the Flash Player Download Center, from where they can install the latest, most secure version of Flash Player." The browser will check for the latest version of Flash, and if your installed version is out of date, then it will disable the plug-in and prompt you to download the latest version, but this might not always be desired. (Why are we still using Flash online anyhow? It hogs space and is an inefficient way to store video information, in other words, Flash ***** to begin with.In the latest version of Safari, Apple enhanced the browser with a security measure that ensures users make use of the latest version of Flash player. Before you ask, yes, my hardware exceeds the minimum requirements for flash. Worse still is that any other browsers I try to use are either slower, more cumbersome (and more downright infuriating) than Safari, such as Firefox, and Google's Chrome won't even install because it says my operating system is too old, when it is in fact, totally compatible! So, when it comes to Flash media, I am dead in the water with Safari (which is the only browser I like) and Firefox is too slow to even find out if it works with that! I've tried everything under the sun, but still I get squat, bupkiss, zilch. and when I thought to retrieve an older version of flash Player, I found that it was no longer distributed by Adobe. I even reinstalled Safari (v5.05) and still nothing. I have reset Safari several times, restarted my computer several times, used Adobe's uninstaller and their installer many times (I lost count at 14) and still, the plugin exists in my computer, but does not cooperate.
xpt file, which confuses me) I have made sure that Safari had enabled plugins, javascript, etcetera, but still (when I go to youtube it provides an install link) flash content says that the plugin is missing. However, after installing it, the plugin refused to cooperate in Safari, and Safari was ignoring that I had installed the plugin. More recently, I discovered that my problem with flash content may have been that I was using an old version of Adobe Flash player, which I then downloaded and installed (v10.3). This was also a problem on sites like wikipedia where images (often JPEG's) would instead show a small blue box with ? in it. A better adjective to describe it's behavior is jumpy, where audio would be fine but video would skip frames or stay stuck on other frames.
Around the same time, YouTube (my source for nerdy gameplay videos, interesting things and, most notably, music) began running, if you will, patchy, or skittish, even at the lowest resolution, and in spite of the fact that the entire video would load seconds after starting. Safari itself loaded a lot of pages slowly, usually in regards to content. To start, a few months ago, my computer began running Safari somewhat slowly, and it is not a router issue, as the speed is around 12 Megabits/second. Hi, I do apologize if this is a repeat, but I could not find any relevant answers to my problems.