Delete old versions of Flash Player?

Question

I successfully downloaded Flash Player 23 NPAPI today. I noticed on my Windows (Vista) control panel that Flash Player 22 ActiveX and 22PPAPI are still installed. Should I manually uninstall the 22 versions?

_maria_ · Accepted Answer

Those are 3 different versions of Flash Player for different browsers:

NPAPI is for Firefox and NPAPI-based browsers
ActiveX is for Internet Explorer
- If you use IE you'll want to upgrade Flash Player ActiveX to version 23. Launch IE and go to https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer to download and install the latest version.
- If you don't use IE you can uninstall Flash Player ActiveX 22.
PPAPI is for Chromium-based browsers such as Opera.
- If you use Opera, you would normally want to upgrade as well, however, there was an issue reported yesterday against Flash Player 23 and Opera (see Flash PPAPI plugin 23.0.0.162 doesn't work in Opera and Chromium) so you may want to hold off on upgrading to Flash Player 23 PPAPI for Opera.
- If you don't use Opera you can uninstall Flash Player PPAPI 22.

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