I'm stuck in an install house of mirrors

I tried to watch some internet content and this drop-down
warning appeared on my web page:
"The page “Macromedia - Flash Player” has content
of MIME type “application/x-shockwave-flash”, but you
don’t have a plug-in installed for this MIME type. A plug-in
should be available on this page:
https://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer
Do you want to open the page?
I click yes, then I'm directed to the flash download page. I
downloaded the flash installer, closed the browser, installed the
flash player, then boom -- once again the exact same drop-down
window I quoted above appears. So again I clicked "yes" (I want to
open the page to get the plug-in), again I'm sent to the Flash
download page, and the exact same routine begins again. I restarted
my computer. No help. I called Adobe tech support. 30 minutes of
talk and the gentleman said "this is strange. I cannot help you.
Try the forums." Okay, forums, please help! Any advice or
directions is appreciated!!
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Peggy,
> I don't understand what Dave was getting at.
Many developers use JavaScript to attempt to determine if
the website
visitor has Flash Player installed. Sometimes, testing for
the presence of
the plugin isn't enough -- often, even specific versions of
Flash Player are
tested for. For example, many objects in ActionScript require
a particular
version or higher.
When this sort of testing is poorly done, it can lead to
cases in which
the website visitor has a perfectly capable version of Flash
Player -- for
example, Flash Player 9 -- but the JavaScript incorrectly
implies that the
installed version isn't good enough. For example, if a
developer uses the
MovieClipLoader class, which was introduced with Flash Player
7, that
developer might use JavaScript to see if the visitor has
Flash Player 7
installed. The mistake would be to check for Flash Player 7
only, rather
than Flash Player 7 or higher.
From what I've seen, the developers at YouTube.com aren't
the sort who
would make that sort of mistake, so my suggestion had no
merit.
David Stiller
Adobe Community Expert
Dev blog,
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

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