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adwul62
Inspiring
December 17, 2013
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Installing previous version of flash player

  • December 17, 2013
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Up front:

I know - I know - I am in the wrong group/forum.

But

a) when posting earlier I got something of a not authorized error

b) when searching for a flash player forum, most were greyed out

c) my endless searches for a forum admin regretfully remained in vain

As my last restort I am posting here...

I have resp. want...:

1. uninstalled Flash Player as outlined on http://forums.adobe.com/message/4041846

(How do I do a clean install of Flash Player?)

2. IE11 x64 and Firefox on my Windows 7 x64

3. downloaded/extracted fp_10.3.183.20_archive.zip and found below files suitable for installation

flashplayer10_3r183_20_win_sa.exe

flashplayer10_3r183_20_win.exe

flashplayer10_3r183_20_winax.exe

4. installed flashplayer10_3r183_20_win.exe, but for IE this was not suitable

5. installed flashplayer10_3r183_20_winax.exe but IE still asked for Flash Player to be installed

For some reason (long story) I need an old version suitable for FF and IE to be installed.

Q: how am I to proceed ??

i.e. what files no I need for these two browsers?

Thanks

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C_F_McBlob
C_F_McBlob
Inspiring
December 17, 2013

You can find older versions here: http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/archived-flash-player-versions.html

But...

1. The "You need the latest version" message comes from HTML in the pages you visit and it WON'T go away until you're running a version that checksums as the minimum set in the code.

2. IE11 has its own world of problems, which are solely Microsoft's responsibility. There are thousands of pages and hundreds of sites that don't recognize the browser and thus, will not recognize the plugins in the browser.

Running Firefox 26 with the Flash Player Plug-in (All other browsers) should allow you to access the pages and sites that IE11 won't. Download the uninstaller  to do a complete uninstall of the Plugin first.

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adwul62Author
Inspiring
December 18, 2013

Thank you for the reply.

Reason for asking is the following.

Over the last couple of weeks (..) I have spent really an awful lot of hours trying to figure out why, whilst measuring the download speed, my downloadspeed heavily jumps up and down, whereas with others, using the same method, it is straight as a line. Investiging this in depth, including folks from my ISP.

Am using 2 pc's both with dual lan, same results on both pc's and all ports, XP and Windows 7.

In the end a test was done by using a laptop from somebody else. Downloadspeed was  really wonderful! Perfectly stable, well above advertised.It could not be better.

I then restored a 100% clean Windows XP image (image created immediately after installing XP, i.e. no updates, no video drivers, no audio drivers, no Antivirus, nothing)

Of course, even without Flash Player.

The browser, obviously, was waaayy outdated, viz. IE6.

Now Flash Player comes in...

1. Running the speedtest, IE6 asked for Flash Player to be installed. After installation the speedtest showed a perfect downloadspeed. Same as whilst using the laptop.

2. Downloaded/installed Firefox v26. Running speedtest - I had to install Flash Player again. Installed flash player. Did the speedtest again, downloadspeed was crap.

Have combined two screenshots.

Again, screenshot was from a clean Windows XP: now only with

a. Flashplayer for IE

b. Firefox v26

c. Flashplayer ("for other browsers(?)  -  the one needed to be able to run the speedtest using Firefox.

Results

http://imageshack.com/a/img856/3050/z9qm.png

Searching for "flash player "download speed" speedtest firefox" I noticed a number of hits.

To test if indeed Flash Player is indeed playing a role the case, I would like to install an older version of flashplayer, i.e. I would like to run the speedtest with (e.g.) FP v.10.x installed for both IE and FF, if possible.

Downloaded/extracted the zipfile - but what now?

(see 3,4 and 5 in my first post)

Thanks again.

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a little later:

I just now tried again on the XP-machine, SP3, IE8 FP11.9 installed

(the XP machine also includes all updates, Norton IS, and Office)

http://imageshack.com/a/img9/3467/xssr.png

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adwul62Author
Inspiring
December 19, 2013

Think it is impossible to communicate with Adobe directly?

For support one will always be redirected to the forum?

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