What's wrong with Adobe Flash?

Up until bedtime last night, I was able to watch things such as iPlayer and YouTube videos. Today, every time I try to do this I get a message saying that I need to install Flash - I already have it installed, for Pete's sake! I have tried uninstalling my old version and installing Flash again - a procedure that Adobe reckon should take a minute, whereas I've been sat here for twenty minutes already and Flash is only 25% downloaded. I have not installed any new programs or software lately, so I have no idea what is causing Flash not to work; I have shut down everything except this page, as per Adobe's instructions, and installation is still crawling at a snail's pace. I'd just like to finish with a quick moan; I think it's unfair that Flash is the only thing we can download to enable us to watch video content. It doesn't work - I couldn't tell you how many times I have had to restart my computer because Flash has malfunctioned - and I am getting no helpful pointers from the Adobe website.

Hi, sorry you are having problems. If you would post back your Operating System, along with the browsers you use and the version numbers, I'll try to help.
Also include your Anti-Virus program you use and the version. Sometimes this can cause a problem.
Thanks,
eidnolb

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When I load the resulting SWF file into a web browser (or the standalone Flash viewer) what I find is that it just has a white screen. The image isn't being displayed. Is there something wrong with the order of the tags in my SWF file? I can't find any debugger software that will analyze the tags in the SWF file and tell me what's wrong with them.
Can anybody here help me with this?

And, occasionally it will boot into open firmware.
Seems odd to me. All by itself? Did you press any keys?
I don't know what to do from here. I can still boot into os 8.6 with extensions off.
Most likely, you have a bad extension. They are in a folder called extensions What you need to do is create a new folder and move extensions to this folder. Move extensions to the folder in groups. try 1/2 first. Move back & forth between folders. See which extension is causing the problem. command + n to create a new folder
verify that you have the correct firmware.
Figuring out what level of firmware you have?
1) Mac OS 9.x or 8.x, you need to use the Apple System Profiler.
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2) Mac OS X, use the System Profiler.
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click on Hardware
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Copyright 1994-2001 Apple Computer Inc.
The 4.1.9f1 will be different on a 333 machine.
What firmware do you need?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86117

Caution: something wrong with "adobe flash player"

Why all this people include me have so so many PROBLEMS with "adobe flash player" I never ever have problem to install on my windows7 64-bit anything til NOW!!!! Please, help and make it easy for everybody and avoid this confusion.WE ALL wants this work without taking our time.
Thank you so much for your time
Peace

Hi jh, I understand what you posted. However you are speaking of two different things. You said you had a 64bit Windows
computer. Now, with that computer, already built in, you have a 32bit also. What you are speaking of is different. You just posted the question if a computer that is ONLY a 32bit, can it be upgraded to a 64bit. No it cannot and what you posted is
correct.
Think of it this way, you have IE as your browser with your Windows computer, now you also have Firefox as a browser,
right? You have a 64bit computer and Microsoft INCLUDED a 32bit already installed in it. You can use the computer using
the 32bit or you can run it using the 64bit, just like you use your 2 different browsers.
Now did you do what I asked you to do? Please do that so we can get this settled! After you do that I have something
else for you to do.
Thanks,
eidnolb

What's wrong with Adobe's Bug Management System?

I'd like to submit a bug in Flex SDK, but something is wrong with Adobe's JIRAs.
I can't login with my existing ID,
don't get emails trying to reset the password in case I type it wrong,
can't activate a new account as emails with confirmation never arrive.
I was trying following URLs:
https://bugs.adobe.com/flex/
https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/secure/Dashboard.jspa
Am I missing something?
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... the reply can be interpreted in either way...
Anyway doesn't work for me from any computer, home or work.
Trying to contact an admin shows empty list of these. See the picture:

What is wrong with Adobe Downloader?

Ok so I wanted to download the cs6 photoshop trial. Downloaded the Adobe downloader, but then it does nothing. It will pop up, but no other messages. I try to sign in but as soon as I hit the enter key the downloader freezes and can only be closed via the task manager. Does anyone know what's wrong?
Here's what I've tried so far:
Uninstall and reinstall (8 times to be exact)
Also ran the cleaner tool
Installed the downloader to every possible location
Signed in before I downloaded the Adobe Downloader
Turned off fire wall
Deleted cookies
PS: the downloader gives me no errors at all.
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I tried that but I get this error trying to download the second file (1.1 GB)
Access Denied
You don't have permission to access "http://trials2.adobe.com/AdobeProducts/STAM/CS6/win32/MasterCollection_CS6_LS16.7z?" on this server.
Reference #18.8f172cd0.1352890254.12e258d2
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What is wrong with my flash player

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Thanks Mike, but I still could not upload multiple photos onto Facebook upon compatibility view. What's more, it seems many other Facebook users had encountered such a problem as online forums sparked outcry and roars.
I've tried Google Chrome and multiple photos can be uploaded for the Chrome browser, yet remained an error of 'not the latest version' in IE and Firefox. Gosh this is just driving me crazy. Updates should be making improvements instead of making original functions not functionable.

What's wrong with Adobe?

What kind of company produces dialog boxes that look like this one:
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GraphicsGeezer wrote:
Just because Adobe is arrogant, incompetent...
How???
I have never used a piece of software that hasn't malfunctioned in my entire time usng computers - since the early 1980s.
Software and machines can error.
That's why we have ways to fix them.
There are plenty of competitors to Adobe.
Corel
Quark
Scribus
Xara
Serif Page Plus
and others
Nobody is forcing you to use Adobe software.
If you want to make a complaint then complain to Adobe - they have email addresses.
Making the complaint on the forums is not going to get you anywhere as this is a User-to-User forum.
And probably name-calling and petulant behaviour will probably not go down well with other users of the forum, resulting in you not getting help at future requests.
Where at times Adobe staff do frequent the forums - they are not obliged to help.
Remember it's a user-to-user forum:
We are all users of the software trying to help each other out.
A bit of courtesy goes a long way.

What is wrong with Adobe Update Manager???!!!

Why in heaven's name can't Adobe fix their broken Update Manager?! Once again, the Update manager tells me that I have updates available, but the information is completely bogus. Two updates are listed: Photoshop CS5 12.0.4 and Illustrator CS5 15.0.2. The problem is that I am already running Photoshop 12.0.5 and Illustrator 15.0.2.
Is it really too much to ask that the Update Manager for this very expensive software work properly???!!!

I appreciate your reply, Steve. But it sounds like you're saying that the way to fix the Update Manager's whacko behavior is to tell it not to check for Photoshop CS5 updates. But that's its job! Still sounds broken to me. I understand that the 12.0.5 security update was issued "outside the AUM framework", but why do it that was if it was going to confound users?
For me, the same thing is still happening today—not just with Photoshop CS5, but also with Illustrator CS5. AUM tells me that the 15.0.2 update is available, but I am already running Illustrator 15.0.2.
It's not a temporary hassle, it's a permanent hassle because the AUM clearly cannot be trusted. It means that the only reliable way to update any of my CS5 apps is to manually go to the Adobe website and drill down to the relevant section for each CS5 app individually. This is shoddy customer service at its finest.

What's wrong with adobe this days?

Guys, I'm just having lot of problems but A LOT, there is always a problem when I have to edit something... I'll explain it to you...
First of all I can't edit my flles from dxtory x264 you have to pay like 300 pounds well, there is a thread already somewhere in this forum well it's ok... (But c'mon...)
One week ago I was exporting a video, coming from Camtasia and it was recognizing just 2 minutes LOL, I had to convert it in other format etc... I read about one guy it has the same problem
Well now With files from my iphone some of them it recognize the sound but it doesn't sound I mean you can see there is a wave sound but in some parts there is not sound how come? or is not syncronized... I don't understand... CS6

Iphone won't edit http://forums.adobe.com/thread/881246
-and http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1011411?tstart=0
Also, you really need to provide more information for people to help - http://forums.adobe.com/message/4200840

What is wrong with Adobe Application Manager?

I didn't know where to post this since I'm unsure what category this belongs in. I noticed yesterday the Adobe Application Manager removed my purchased Photoshop CS6 from the list and added Adobe Acrobat XI which I recently purchased only the latter is showing up as "Try" instead of "Up to date".
Also items that were showing as up to date were not. I ran the update within Photoshop and it found a few items that needed updating. See the attached image.

Separately purchased apps do not necessarily show up as up to date in AAM if they are not part of a subscription/ CC. They may once they have been updated through AAM. It's a bit messy. For your Photoshop to reappear in the list you would have to run the Creative Suite Cleaner Tool and let AAM reinstall, but since it seems to work for now, I wouldn't worry.
Mylenium

What's Up With Adobe Flash

Can we now work with Flash on our Ipads

That doesn't refer to anything installed on your iPad. It is a software tool for developers to use to easily convert Flash based content on their websites to HTML5.
Certainly many will take advantage of it - meaning more site will be viewable on iOS devices more quickly, but it doesn't mean a plugin for Safari on your iPad.

What is wrong with Adobe?

Why can't I download or click "Agree" when trying to install the "Flash media live encoder"? The whole page is messed up...

The FMLE forum is http://forums.adobe.com/community/flash/flash_media_live_encoder although I don't see many questions answered there.
Maybe someone can help if you provide more info: operating system, FMLE version, a screenshot...

Adobe - what is wrong with you?

Do you need to go that cheap with your testing? One minute after installing the 10.3 update on a CLEAN win7x64 build using IE9 standard (no extras) and any site using flash, especially forums with Google ads slow to a crawl, especially editing a post or entering any text is an exercise of extreme frustration. It is silly to have to wait 3 minutes for your cursor to appear to enter one character in a post.
This means, you guys didn't bother to do the most basic testing with 10.3 - and with a company your size I have to ask, "What is wrong with you?" Not only is this lazy and incompetant, but evebn worse you have somewhat of a monopoly monopoly on this type of content. There is simply no excuse for this and this isn't the first time you've screwed the pooch as of late. It was super fun fixing your security loopholes that delivered trojans right through computer systems via your flash ads.
If you can't manage this application, if you can't perform the most basic net tests - then sell this business segment off to someone more competant... hopefully someone who's not so inconsiderate as to fill our computer's with unecessary bloat (cue Adobe Reader).
Sorry for ranting.
Message was edited by: jpinard7 - thank you to the tech answering questions here (Mr. Campbell)

Hi,
I'm sorry that you're encountering problems. From your edit I'm guessing you've seen this post, but if you haven't please review it for details and a few workarounds.
I know this is frustrating, and we do apologize. We do testing on many systems, but for whatever reason we missed this issue with Intel HD Graphics GPU's. If you're running into problems with another display adapter please let me know so we can investigate further.
Thanks,
Chris

I HATE my new MACBOOK PRO, it will not let me open any PDF files and I downloaded the ADOBE READER three freaking times and it keeps saying that all the files are corrupt. I would rather have my 2008 Dell at this point. what is wrong with this thing

I HATE my new MACBOOK PRO, it will not let me open any PDF files and I downloaded the ADOBE READER three freaking times and it keeps saying that all the files are corrupt or damaged. I would rather have my 2008 Dell at this point. what is wrong with this thing

Perhaps the PDF files are corrupted.
Hit the command key and spacebar, a blue Spotlight in the upper right hand corner appears, now type Preview and press return on the Preview program.
Now you can try opening the PDF's from the file menu and see what's going on.
If they are corrupted, perhaps they are trojans from your Windows PC or gotten from a bad location online.
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What's wrong with this Forum? Why does Adobe take so long to reply to posts?!

What's wrong with this Forum? Why does Adobe take so long to reply to posts?!
This is actually "specific" to this Photoshop Forum.
I typically get responses back from other Adobe forum promptly.
Chime in.

The Adobe engineering folks DO duck in here from time to time - and that's a BLESSING! Please name any other big company where you get to interact with the engineers AT ALL. I can't. But I suspect the engineers actually have a lot oof real work to do, and their time here is necessarily limited.
Your comments are more along the line of "I pay a huge amount, for that I expect better support". These are very valid comments. But reality is different from what we may expect, and this forum is not the place to expect Adobe support participation AT ALL. In fact, the technical support people at Adobe often direct users to come here (something I've always found amusing).
At the higher level, Adobe may simply not be spending enough on support for literally millions of users. Is is greed or smart business to try to minimize support cost? That's up for individuals to decide.
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