Flash Player unrecognized by websites requiring it.

Question

I have a Windows 7, Samsung laptop.  Browser is Internet Explorer.  Have installed & reinstalled latest version of Fashplayer (21.0.0.???)  NUMEROUS times.  Install is CONFIRMED and is in my system (windows, syswow64, etc.) and add-on ENABLED in Internet Expl.  Why do websites keep insisting I do not have latest version and therefore, cannot play content?  (something requiring an old version, say v. 10, will work)  but not sites requiring newer versions.  Has been going on for quite some time, and not just with this latest version.  I have it set to automatically update, but I reinstall over and over and then eventually I give up on the site and its content.  But now there is content I need to see and can not do so.  Am very frustrated.

jeromiec83223024 · Answer

First, confirm that ActiveX Filtering is configured to allow Flash content:

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/867968

Internet Explorer 11 and Edge introduce a number of changes both to how the browser identifies itself to remote web servers, and to how it processes JavaScript intended to target behaviors specific to Internet Explorer. Unfortunately, this means that content on some sites will be broken until the content provider changes their site to conform to the new development approach required by modern versions of IE.

You can try to work around these issues by using Compatibility View:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/internet-explorer/use-compatibility-view#ie=ie-11

If that is too inconvenient, using Google Chrome may be a preferable alternative.

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