Updating Adobe Flash Player in a macOS Catalina environment

You can still use and install Flash in chrome. It still works. I'm still using it. Google blocks flash by default. You must override it on a site by site basis.

I prefer Flash in Chrome for streaming especially with BT because there are fewer problems with BT devices getting out sync between audio/video tracks.

1. Install Flash
2. Visit your URL
3. In the address bar to the left of the URL, there will be a padlock (see screenshot)
4. Tap on the padlock
5. The 'Flash' dropdown box will default to ask (this means that Flash isn't going to run and you probably aren't going to see the prompt)
6. Change the prompt to 'Allow'
7. You will be asked to reload the page
8. Reload the page

Now, You can configure the settings for the page so that Flash will always load BUT google in its infinite wisdom will reset these especially for Flash so be prepared for Flash to just stop working. I don't know if this is because server IPs change or what.

Adobe Flash is 64 bit, works with Catalina and Safari, is available from the Adobe web site, and is required by xfinity/Comcast.

I use it with Comcast almost every day.

Available at: https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

I've been looking for the reference to include here but cannot find it right now.

I've read that as of MacOS Catalina, Adobe Flash is neither supported nor required. Safari uses some other newer technology instead. Further, I believe as of 2020, Adobe will no longer offer Flash to anybody.

Personally, I prepared for MacOS Catalina by removing Flash while I still had MacOS Mojave installed.

Apparently Flash Player Installer is a 32-bit app. Here is more good information.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/10/07/review-macos-catalina-1015-is-what-apple-promised-the-mac-could-be-and-is-a-crucial-upgrade

Thank you the information.

Situation: downloaded macOS Catalina a few days ago and noticed that YouTube videos were not playing on Safari. However, I was able to play the videos on Google Chrome. Still, I wanted access to videos on Safari. Read a few articles about the topic and kept coming across uninstalling Adobe Flash Player and reinstalling it.

What I did: I uninstalled Adobe Flash and while doing a search to reinstall Adobe Flash, I came upon this post. So far, I left it uninstalled and now the YouTube videos are playing. If Adobe is not going to use Flash anymore, I figure it won't hurt to leave it uninstalled.

I'm not tech savvy and really don't know what 32-bit app means. So far, the videos work. If you have any tips or cautions, feel free to let me know. Thank you.

SeanCorrain wrote:

I did not think to do that before upgrading.

I don't know what "that" means.

Is it too late to remove it?

I don't know what "it" means. But if you're thinking of retrograding away from MacOS Catalina, that is almost certainly the wrong approach.

As dialabrain correctly stated, almost no sites use Flash any more. There is some better approach out there to your issue, but you have not stated what your issue might be.

Ha! Lots of sites still use Flash, Xfinity for example. I wish they would all convert to HTML5, but no telling when that is going to happen?

And stranger still is Catalina still allows flash in Safari. Flash is 32 bit and installs and still works in Catalina. Go figure...

I followed the information from the link.

https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/uninstall-flash-player-mac-os.html

If it doesn't work, I don't know what to tell you. I'm not computer savvy. Another thing, I try to stick to links provided by Apple and not third party links that offer downloads. Calling Apple tech is helpful too.

You can. You can install for Chrome, Firefox and Safari

https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/

The problem is that you must enable it in Safari on a site by site basis and you must enable it on a site by site basis for Chrome (see above for Chrome)

In Safari, it's Preferences>Websites>Adobe Flash Player > player to ON for that site

The problem is, when I use certain BT devices, once those devices get below about a 70% charge, the audio/video tracks get out of sync when I use Safari. I don't have this problem with Chrome. I don't fully understand how the BT stack interacts with video and audio in Chrome and Safari so I can't explain why this happens.

Believe me, I'd prefer to use Safari. I use Safari whenever possible but it is not always possible.

Catalina 10.15.1 has caused a few problems with your printersand other things. You needing to up with the manufacture, Messed up the settings in your car with factory GPS. So maybe you will have to contact Smilebox and ask them for help. Hope that this was of some help.

As mentioned Adobe is no longer making Flash available as of 2020. In any case almost no sites use Flash anymore.

FWIW, YouTube switched from Flash to HTML5 going on five years ago.

I did not think to do that before upgrading. Is this a situation, that now that I have upgraded - it is too late to remove it ?

FWIW, Flash Player has been 64bit since 2011.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/finally-adobe-releases-a-64-bit-flash-player/