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I keep an older computer with CS6, used for some occasional freelance and D&D related projects. I do have a CC account but I would like to keep my CS6 due to the somewhat volitile nature I have experienced with CC.
I want to uninstall Flash Player for the stated security reasons, but don't want to lose CS6. Is this a worry I should have?
It's super unlikely that this will cause you a problem. Where Flash Player was used in legacy Creative Suite versions, it was generally through a internal Flash Player variant that's baked into those applications. I'm not aware of any desktop Creative Suite products that depend on the installed browser plug-in.
That said, Adobe is a huge company with hundreds of products that I don't personally work on. Many of those products consume (or more accurately... at some point in the past, consum
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Which apps do you use? Given it's age, I think CS6 may have had some Flash dependencies. So some features in CS6 may stop working.
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If you're not exporting anything to Flash there is no concern with uninstalling Flash Player.
If you're exporting projects to Flash then you'll need to migrate those to some other technology.
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It's super unlikely that this will cause you a problem. Where Flash Player was used in legacy Creative Suite versions, it was generally through a internal Flash Player variant that's baked into those applications. I'm not aware of any desktop Creative Suite products that depend on the installed browser plug-in.
That said, Adobe is a huge company with hundreds of products that I don't personally work on. Many of those products consume (or more accurately... at some point in the past, consumed) Flash Player and are downstream from me. I generally don't have visibility into the whos or hows unless those product teams run into a problem and ask for help.
My educated guess is that you're probably fine, but the smart thing would be to set a system restore point / make a backup, uninstall, and then confirm that your critical use-cases work.