Adobe Flash Player is responsible for the ability to view and listen to various multimedia content on web pages. Thanks to its capabilities, such a popular service as Youtube, social networks, browser-based online games and much more work. For a long time, there has been debate about how useful it is, but the widespread use of webmasters forces you to install every new update to Flash Player.
At the moment, browser manufacturers are using two approaches in cases where an update to Flash Player is required. In the first of them, the browser itself checks for a new version and offers its update (Chrome from Google and all its clones). In another case, the user should monitor and install this application himself, since the functions of the web browser do not require automatic updating of plug-ins (Mazila Firefox, Opera and others).
You can determine whether a Flash Player update is required directly on the product’s official website, where there is a special test page that automatically checks the version of the player’s player. There you can download and install it, and this procedure is completely free.
In some cases, you may need to uninstall Flash Player. For example, when using Google Chrome, when there is a version conflict. For such cases, there is a special application on the official website, which can also be downloaded for free to your computer.
Many users are wondering if it is important to download every new Flash Player update. In fact, this product is very necessary for the correct display of many web pages, so it is strongly recommended to monitor the release of its new versions. In addition, these versions of the player not only bring new features to web surfing, but also fix old bugs and vulnerabilities, which helps to keep the system safe.
It is important to remember that, after downloading and installing the next Flash Player update, you should close the browser window you are using before installing it, you can continue working with it only after the installation is complete. Rebooting the computer in such cases is not required.
Among the most common problems that the Flash Player update can solve are:
- video and audio posted on the web page are not displayed or stop working immediately after switching on;
- a question mark appears in those places where there should be a reproduction of multimedia products;
- the page freezes when watching videos on Youtube and on social networks.
Many Internet users do not know that using a flash player makes it possible to control some settings of applications that use flash files. Access to the options can be opened by right-clicking on the flash content. As a result, it is possible to adjust the quality of the received image, the settings of the web camera or microphone, etc. One of the most popular functions of the flash player at the moment is the launch of flash games, which can be played both in the browser itself and on the computer, previously by downloading them.