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davewg
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February 5, 2009
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Detecting Flash Player version from outside browser

  • February 5, 2009
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Hi there,

I was wondering if it is possible to detect the version of the Flash Player on a Mac, but from outside of the browser. Our product needs to know what Flash version is present as installation time, so I need to detect it via shell / perl script.

Does anybody know if this is possible, and what might be the most efficient approach?

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davewg
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    Correct answer davewg
    Hi, just for reference, using a shell script to retrieve the CFBundleShortVersionString key from plugins plist seems like a good way to go. Plugin is in /Library/Internet Plug-Ins.

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    February 6, 2009
    Hi, just for reference, using a shell script to retrieve the CFBundleShortVersionString key from plugins plist seems like a good way to go. Plugin is in /Library/Internet Plug-Ins.
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