Safari Blocked Plug-ins - Still!

Apple would love you to believe that it is Adobe's fault. They like to blame others. In this case it's Apple's fault - for some reason the download doesn't take. Keep trying to download it and you may eventually be successful as I was although I bet they are ****** that they can't charge me for fixing a fault that is their own.

Don't ask me why it will eventually take, like many things in the computer world there's no rhyme or reason (although the techies will strenously deny this). One thing to do is not only shut all Safari windows but then open Safari and quit from the drop down menu. For me it worked after that.

Just how long are we going to put up with this crap from Apple? I find it astonishing that many people have been forced to switch browsers (I was actually TOLD to do this from someone from the local Apple store!). We pay extortionate amounts for Apple products - is it too much to expect some service instead of having to rely on the kind souls on this site for help?

Let me know how you get on.

Actually, I've discovered these are two combined problems, instead of one. (At least on my personal case).

Apparently, Adobe forgot that many companies, for security reasons, have strong firewalls. These firewalls prevent the proper DL of new versions of Flash player.

The second problem is, once Adobe's Flash Player self claims it is "out of date", Safari no longer loads the plug in, hence preventing you from watching any flash content.

Once I've discovered this, we turned off the firewall and suspended all security measures to install Flash player, then rebooted all the systems on. Now every thing works as expected. Or until Adobe releases a new flash player version, that's it.

So technically speaking, it is a shared problem.

As I mentioned in my previous post, Firefox has the "allow outdated plug in to play" option, so even if the installation of new players fails, Firefox still can play the content as usual. Safari should have a similar feature, not just a "sorry, is out of date, so I'll never will play it again" message, and Adobe should be smart enough to understand those continuous checks for updates just discourages people from using Flash instead of update it.

Thanks for this information. It's a pity that Safari does not have the "allow outdated plug in to play" option although I suspect that is deliberate in order to force Apple customers like me to upgrade to the crap Mountain Lion OS.

Although there are many bits of Apple I like, I find their contempt for their customes chilling. Compare them to VMFusionware where I emailed them about a problem and they rang me up and took me through the whole process. Apple has a lot to learn!

Linc, Step 1 of your original post at the beginning of this discussion fixed my problem.

Thank you so much.

Sorry to get to the party so late--you may have already solved the problem. My Snow Leopard started acting up, with hitches and jumps; sometimes losing the page, and I started getting the "plug-in blocked" message on stuff that used to work. I'm no techie, and thought I might've picked up a virus somewhere (still not sure) and after checking around, I tried updating Adobe Flash Player. Nothing worked until a friend advised me to go to the Adobe app and dump the folder and to empty trash bin after that. I did this, and went back to Adobe and downloaded the latest version---bingo! Problem solved. Apparently the old stuff was still affecting the performance in my Safari browser, and kept screwing things up, until I got rid of it.

I had the same problem, Connie - & finally, after downloading the new flash player numerous times to no avail, my 12-year-old son just solved the problem for me. It was not anything to do with settings, or preferences or security, as some suggested. Linc questioned whether, after downloading the new player, you had actually gone on to "install" it. Call me dense, but that was my first clue to my failures. I did not realize that this is a two-step process, & none of the commenters specifically points out what for most of them must seem obvious, that you must click on the new flash player after it has completed downloading, in what my son referred to as the "preview box." (The box that opens to show you the progress the item you're installing makes as it completes its download) When we did that, a second window opened featuring (voila!) the installer, & it was just a matter of clicking "install" (the second step) to upgrade the adobe flash player, which solve the blocked plug-in problem. The Apple Help topic Adobe Flash Player updates available for OS X on October 24, 2014 - Apple Supportdoes spell it out - but I would not say its intuitive, if you've never clicked on anything in your "downloads" box before. Live & Learn!