“Mac OS X 10.6.4, released on Tuesday, includes Flash Player 10.0.45.2,” MacNN reports. “The problem, says Brad Arkin, is that this version of Flash was originally released for Macs in February, whereas v10.1 has been available since last week and fixes major security vulnerabilities, in addition to bringing feature improvements.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Obviously, Mac OS X 10.6.4 was tested with Adobe’s Flash 10.0.45.2. Apple isn’t going to delay their release schedule just because some lazy ingrates decide to issue a half-assed update less than a week before the release of Mac OS X major point update that’s been undergoing developer testing for months. Adobe has become a group of idiotic whiners.
We have a solution to this issue: Apple should stop shipping baked-in Flash components in Mac OS X and let users decide for themselves if they want to pollute their Macs with Adobe’s processor-pinning, fan-spinning, insecure crapware.
You know, Adobe, there’s a time to just STFU, admit defeat, and get to work on the future. Unfortunately, that time came and went months ago.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]
Good idea MDN, Flash should be “opt in”
WHATEVER ADOBE. You can kiss my
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Can’t believe people in Adobe keep on doing senseless things like this. So sick.
If they’re going to ship Flash they should also ship Click to Flash – It would bring balance to the Force!
Adobe, poor little adobe’s running to tell the teacher on Apple again….
Eat your wheaties and take your lumps, now you know how it feels, how do you like them apples assholes?!
I don’t get the issue. I upgraded the newest version of Flash when it came out, then I upgraded my machine the other day to 10.6.4. The Apple installer is smart enough to know that I have a later version of Flash on my machine. After the OS X upgrade I still had Flash version 10.1 installed, so what’s the problem?
Web designers arrested for Flashing
Trust me…ClickToFlash is truly a blessing.
LOL!! Love MDN’s take!
Hmmm…
I do see some writing on the wall here. Safari 5 has extensions now, flash could be bumped out of default installs and marked as an “opt-in” or some such. I can’t say it would hurt my feelings if flash were marked as an extension and you had to add it, like Firefox used to (still does?).
I would not miss it, truthfully, except on sites that insist on putting it in everything, including asinine topic headers and such. Why do that, people? Go with HTML5 and tell the bozos still using IE6 to step away from the precipice.
All Adobe do is whine!
This paragraph makes the entire story worth the read 😀
“Apple should stop shipping baked-in Flash components in Mac OS X and let users decide for themselves if they want to pollute their Macs with Adobe’s processor-pinning, fan-spinning, insecure crapware
Didn’t Flash 10.1 remove hardware acceleration from Flash? If I’m remembering correctly, of course Apple would prefer the version of Flash that contains hardware acceleration to one the did not.
Maybe Adobe should get its act together and not have stripped hardware acceleration from Flash 10.1.
@bizlaw
The hardware acceleration component of Flash 10.1 for Mac has been delayed. It was in the “Gala” preview version released a few weeks ago. The Gala accelerator reportedly only works with the most recent nVidia GPs (used by Apple in 2009 and 2010 models).
All I can say is that Safari 5 refuses to work with a online tour that I needed to take and I had to use Firefox. I’m trying to find the older version to re-install so it works right.
didn’t we go thru this the last time there was a mac os x update where adobe released a new version of flash the week before and then complained that it wasn’t in the update?
Okay, scratch your hards fanboys and fangirls – does anyone recall anyone in an official position at Apple ever whining like the Adobe children seem to do? Names, dates and reason for whining please.
“Apple has once again failed to put the latest version of Flash in a Snow Leopard update, Adobe’s security and privacy director complains.”
Maybe that’s because of the HUGE FREAKING SECURITY HOLES IN IT!!!! Maybe the “security and privacy director” needs to remember that. Duh….
I’m a photographer, I have not used adobe products almost 10 years. I’m very happy!!
MDN
Just start these articles from now on with the first two words…
Adobe complains.
What a crappy article. Whatever happened to real journalism.
Allow me to repeat this story. A few years back, Adobe management called in the leaders of the Photoshop team to plan upgrades. When asked about the optimum approach for major improvement, the P-Shop crew suggested they wad up the filthy, unintuitive hairball, throw it away, and start over again from scratch. Management said no, we’re not going to do that. So instead, we’ve gotten a few tool upgrades that are still beta-ish, and new icons, just for the sake of new, which are harder to distinguish than the originals.
There you have the difference between Adobe and Apple.
I use http://clicktoflash.com/ on my Mac / Safari. It gives me the option to view Flash as needed without it being “forced” on my browsing experience. It works well and I highly recommend it.
Flash is a rancid turd. I am fed up with Adobe now … I hate those asswipes.
‘MDN Take’ ….. Guys, you just have to stop talking like this! ….. I’m so unprepared for the laughter that follows …..
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I can’t believe that CS5 isn’t 64bit yet. It’s amazing that it doesn’t require OS emulation to work! LOL!
Is anyone else as tired as I am with Adobe whining about every little move Apple makes that they don’t like. It’s like listening to a whining kid who is not getting what he wants, and then picks at every little thing to whine even more. Face it Adobe, Flash is dying. And stop whining. Nobody likes a whiner.
Maybe if Adobe released a working version of Flash with enough time for Apple to roll it into their full testing process then Apple would include it. Releasing a version 3 weeks prior to an OS update does not a FULL review/test period make… So STFU Adobe! You look more pathetic every day… Time for a new CEO?
Did someone at Adobe dial 911?
There’s a Wahhhhhmbulance waiting outside their HQ…
MDN’s take conjures up this image in my mind…
Ever since I upgraded to safari 5, I’ve been having issues. I then installed the new flash and now it craps out several times a day.
Great MDN Take. The fact that Adobe expects Apple to ship 10.6.4 with a one-week-old version of Flash shows how looney Adobe has become. If the user already has Flash 10.1 installed, 10.6.4 does not override it with an older version of Flash. So Apple did the right thing here in not forcing a brand new version of Flash to be installed if the user is still on the older version.
Adobe needs to put a collective muzzle on its spokespersons. They are embarrassing.
mdn=tools
from a loyal Mac user.
using Safari 5 here as well, with Click to Flash… no issues here at all. Gave up on Adobe a couple years ago at 8.
I’m still using Leopard 10.5.8 and now I want to upgrade to 10.6.4. But i want your feedback. should i.. or should’nt..!
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Your a Idiot “cb” if you cant understand that Updates from Apple and other Provides get tested with certain versions of software, Adobe JUST updated its software last week, This gives Apple NO TIME to test this new build. Adobe had been promising this for a long time, Apple doesn’t run on Adobes Pathetic time Clock.
And this is a PERFECT Example of Why Apple will NOT be help Hostage to Adobe or Other 3rd parties for Updates.
Now “cb” your either a TROLL or a IDOT, Though it easily can seen as your are ALLOT of Both.
And you are not a loyal Mac user, You just placed that ” BS” their to try and convince us your not a PAID Adobe Plant like the many making their rounds.
If you want the Dam update so bad, Download it from Adobes site, I have yet to see Microsoft Include a Flash update Embedded in a Service Pack, You Must download it Separately.
Adobe has crossed the line, And on other sites they are being blasted for this comment, Just because the fools drug their feet and are not good enough to play the game, Adobe are the ones that need to be very careful any sympathy they might have had has just been blown away by this made up NON story.
What a Hack.
I hate apple so much. I can’t until Jbs dies so they can become arespectable company again.
Want a laugh? Go to the official Adobe “flash version check” page:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/155/tn_15507.html
Look at the bottom, where they list the latest version for each platform. It still lists 10.0!
That’s Adobe for you! Whining that others won’t do their work for them, and utterly failing at doing work themselves.
——RM
Nobody complained or whined about anything or anyone in this case. There really is no story here.
The Adobe Flash Player 10.1 update was released on June 10, 2010, likely after the build for the Mac OS X 10.6.4 update was locked. However, as this article points out, Adobe had issued a security advisory on June 4 for a zero-day vulnerability in Flash Player 10.0.45.2 (the version included in the Mac OS X 10.6.4 update). Because a reference to the Adobe security bulletin announcing a fix for this issue was not included in the Apple security bulletin, we saw it as our obligation to our mutual customers to issue an entry to our Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) blog, recommending users update to the latest, most secure version of Flash Player (10.1.53.64). Our only motivation behind the blog post was the security of our mutual customers.
Security is an industry concern and not one that is limited to a select group of vendors or products. No organization is immune to vulnerabilities and exploits. It is critical that vendors and the security community at large partner and work together to try and stay ahead of the game and combat those with malicious intent. It’s not an issue of “us vs. them.”
@ LordRobin / RM
Note that in your comment above, you referenced a tech note issued in April (http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/155/tn_15507.html) instead of the correct link for the Flash Player version check. Back in April, when the tech note was issued, Flash Player 10.0.45.2 was the current version.
The correct link for the Flash Player version check is http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/about/. You will notice that the current version on this page is listed as 10.1.53.64.
Nope – first computer was a Quadra 650 and I was just buyer #4 at Best Buy for an iPhone. And am typing on a 24″ iMac bought last August.
idiot=no.
Now boy genius – show me a mac desktop application that I can create html banners in HTML5, like MDN wants me too. And I will admit I’m the biggest tool in the known universe.
Otherwise – don’t jump off and defend the spineless putty sisters of MDN in their useless anti flash diatribe. Jeez – they don’t even have the nads to back up their staunch philosophy – just look at the flash banners on this site.
Whole lotta HTML 5 goin on here – NOT!
Moron
This is the first (and last) time I’ve read an article on this site. What a useless piece of “journalism” this is.