Installing Flash Player

Report · Jul 17, 2013

Installation only goes to 50% on Firefox, then quits. I have Windows XP 32-bit.

Report · Jul 18, 2013

Use the offline installer from http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/installation-problems-flash-player-windows.html#main-pars_hea... (under the heading Progress bar hangs...).

Report · Jul 20, 2013

If you are having problems using Adobe's webpage download, you can use the StandAlone Flash Installer. While Adobe has stopped offering its standalone Flash installer as of July 2013 and the download links on its Flash Troubleshooting pages are now bad links you can use the last archived version which is currently the same as its current version (ver.11.8), For now it can be downloaded from two different webpages:

1. http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/ (easier to find the right download)

2. http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/archived-flash-player-versions. html and download the right one for your device and system. For Windows it is Flash Player 11.8.800.94..(link is: http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/installers/archive/fp_1 1.8.800.94_archive.zip). It is a zip file that has more than you need so unzip it, then open 11_8_r800.94_archive>11_8_r800_94 and then copy-paste the right program to a real folder outside the zip file. If you use IE then use either the winax.exe or winax.exe version, otherwise use the the win.exe or win.msi version.

Report · Jul 20, 2013

JS-Genius wrote:
If you are having problems using Adobe's webpage download, you can use the StandAlone Flash Installer. While Adobe has stopped offering its standalone Flash installer as of July 2013 and the download links on its Flash Troubleshooting pages are now bad links you can use the last archived version which is currently the same as its current version (ver.11.8), For now it can be downloaded from two different webpages:
1. http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/ (easier to find the right download)
2. http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/archived-flash-player-versions. html and download the right one for your device and system. For Windows it is Flash Player 11.8.800.94..(link is: http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/installers/archive/fp_1 1.8.800.94_archive.zip). It is a zip file that has more than you need so unzip it, then open 11_8_r800.94_archive>11_8_r800_94 and then copy-paste the right program to a real folder outside the zip file. If you use IE then use either the winax.exe or winax.exe version, otherwise use the the win.exe or win.msi version.

That ENTIRE POST is an OUTRIGHT LIE! Don't believe a word of it!

Report · Jul 20, 2013

The purpose of my previous post was not about why Adobe was not offering consumers links to standalone Flash installers but that rather to give others the information on where they can find them. I do not remember where I got the idea that Adobe was not going to be offering consumer standalone Flash installers, so people may disregard it. But for some reason Adobe is currently not offering standalone Flash downloads to consumers that I could find and this seems to have been ongoing for about a week or so based on other posts. It appears that all the consumer links on the official Adobe web pages to standalone installers are bad/missing. The purpose of my post was not about why this was happening but rather to give the links to standalone installers so others didn't have to go through >100 pages like I had to. Ultimately the only pages I could find that had standalone/offline Flash installers were for licensed business distributors (#1) and the archives (#2). Below is just one example of an Adobe page (official, not forum) where all the links to standalone Flash installers are bad /missing.

Page: Troubleshooting page of Flash Player Help / Installation problems | Flash Player | Windows at http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/installation-problems-flash-player-windows.html

Examples of Bad/Missing Links on this page:

Flash Player for ActiveX (Internet Explorer)

direct links for Internet Explorer

Report · Jul 20, 2013

You NEED TO UNDERSTAND - just because YOU can't access it, DOESN'T UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES mean that Adobe has quit making it available. And UNLESS you can provide a valid, reputable link FROM ADOBE to support the claim, YOU CANNOT POST untrue information all over this forum in multiple threads, regardless of how upset you are that you can't get something to download.

Explain how THIS is a bad link