Searching old Flash Player (6.0.88.0)

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April 2, 2010
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Hi!

I'm searching for an old Flash Player for some testing purposes.

Is there a possibility to get the Flash Player Version 6 r88 (6.0.88.0)? (That's the standard Flash player on many Windows-XP-computers)

Greetings,

Leon-123

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pwillener

Legend

Try http://download.cnet.com/Flash-Player/3000-2378_4-10001055.html; go to the bottom (Previous Versions), where you can select downloads back to version 3.0.

370H55V

Inspiring

I have four systems running XP (SP3) and they ALL run Flash Player 10.

6.0.88.0 was the standard when it was released. It isn't now.

My daughter just got a EeePC netbook with XP home (SP3) last summer and it came with Flash Player 9 which I upgraded to 10 shortly afterward.

Unless you are building "out-of-the-box" retro systems with XP (no SP) and all of the ORIGINAL software, there's not much sense in trying to go back to nearly eight year old software for todays Flash web content.

Even for testing, you'll get more errors out of AS3 and AS2 Flash files than you'll get playable SWFs.

It's like using Acrobat 3 to open 2010 PDFs. An execrise in futility to say the least.

Best of luck, though.

L

Leon-123Author

Participant

@CowboyInAZ:

Ok, I agree with you. Flash player 6 is veeeery old and out-of-date.

Of course most of the users (like you or me) who are using the internet perhaps more than half an hour per month updated their Flash Player to version 9, 10 or whatever, because many popular sites dont't work with the vergion 6 (like Youtube videos, etc.). But there is definitely a little percentage of computers with old outdated versions.

I think there is nothing to be said against that I just wanted to test something?

370H55V

Inspiring

Like I said though, unless you're testing six year old Flash content, you'll likely get between 80 and 90% errors and nothing more with that version.

You make a good point about some people having the older version still installed... BUT...

If they haven't been prompted automatically to update, it's because they haven't got an internet connection at all, and they haven't seen a flash video or animation since 2004 at the very latest (and in some cases are still running Windows 98, 95 or 2).

Testing and building content for these people is like designing a car for the Amish.

M

Marina2011

Participant

Try OldVersions.com