This step-by-step guide will take you through the process to completely uninstall Adobe Flash Player from your Mac. The regular removal of unwanted and unused software will clean up your Mac and keep it running smoothly.
What is Adobe Flash Player and Why Remove it?
Download the Adobe Flash Player uninstaller: Mac OS X, version 10.6 and later: uninstallflashplayerosx.dmg; Mac OS X, version 10.4 and 10.5: uninstallflashplayerosx.dmg; The uninstaller is downloaded to the Downloads folder of your browser by default. Microsoft Edge doesn't come with Adobe Flash Player installed, but you can enable it to view websites that still use Flash. If you prefer Microsoft Edge over the default Safari, you can also. Adobe Flash Player for Mac, free and safe download. Adobe Flash Player latest version: Adobe Flash Player for Mac - Play anything! Adobe Flash Player is a free software program to play Shockwave.
Flash Player is a browser plugin that enables the user to stream and watch video (on sites such as YouTube), viewing multimedia content, and interacting with RIA (Rich Internet Applications).
As of 1 January 2021, Adobe will not be offering and updating Flash Player anymore. Web browsers will rather be making use of the advancements of HTML5, WebGL, and WebAssembly, therefore negating the need for Flash Player.
Method 1. Using Adobe Flash Player Install Manager
By far the most effective and cleanest way to remove Flash Player is by making use of the Installation Manager. This simple process will ensure all relevant Flash Player files are removed.
Locate Adobe Flash Player Install Manager on your Mac
1. From the Menu bar at the top of the screen, click on Go and select Utilities. If you can’t find Utilities, it also appears in the Application folder.
2. In the Utilities folder, find and double click on the Adobe Flash Player Install Manager application.
Uninstall Flash Player
1. Click on Uninstall
2. If prompted, enter your password to allow the uninstallation and click on Install Helper.
3. The uninstaller will prompt you to close all open browsers. You can close them manually or click on them in the window.
4. After the uninstaller runs, a window will popup that confirms that Adobe Flash Player has been removed from your computer.
Confirm that Flash Player has been removed
1. To confirm that it has been removed from your computer, head over to the Adobe Flash Player website ( https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player.html). Under the first step, click on the button that says Check Now.
2. If the uninstallation process was successful, you will get a notice that Flash Player is not installed.
Delete installation file
1. To finish off the complete removal of Adobe Flash Player from your computer, head over to Finder. In the Search field, enter “install_flash_player”.
2. Right-click on the install_flash_player_osx.dmg file and select Move to Trash.
Method 2. App Cleaner and Uninstaller
One of my favorite applications for my Mac is App Cleaner and Uninstaller. Not only does it assist you to quickly uninstall unwanted applications, but it also helps you find remaining files that are hard to find.
Launch App Cleaner and Uninstaller
Open the App Cleaner and Uninstaller App from the Applications folder by double-clicking on it.
Remove Flash Player files
1. Once opened, find Flash Player in the left-hand pane and click on it.
2. On the top of the right-hand pane, check the box next to Select All. Then click on Remove in the bottom right.
3. A window will appear to review and confirm the selection to be removed. If you are happy with the selection, click on Remove in the bottom right to proceed.
4. App Cleaner & Uninstaller confirms that the files selected were successfully removed.
5. Unfortunately, all files related to Adobe Flash player could not be removed, because we are running the free version. Upgrading to the Pro version will allow you to remove it completely.
However, App Cleaner & Uninstaller does show in which directories the remaining relevant files are stored. Similar to Step 3, select Flash Player from the left pane.
6. While hovering over the first file (Flash Player.prefPane) in the right pane, click on the blue arrow icon.
7. This will bring up the specific directory for the file selected. Right-click on the file and select Move to Trash.
8. Repeat the step for the remaining files in App Cleaner and Uninstaller under Flash Player. This should remove the Adobe Flash Player application on the left pane.
Remove Flash Player Install Manager files
1. Now, still in the left pane of App Cleaner and Uninstaller, scroll up and find Adobe Flash Player Install Manager. Select all files by checking the box next to Select All in the right pane and click Remove on the bottom right.
2. Review and confirm the selected files by clicking on Remove in the next window.
3. A window appears confirming the removal of the selected files.
4. Hover over the last remaining file, Adobe Flash Player Install Manager in the right pane, and click on the blue arrow icon.
5. This will open the Utilities folder in Finder showing the Adobe Flash Player Install Manager application. Right-click on the application and select Move to Trash.
6. To complete the removal of Flash Player, go to Finder and in the Search field, type “install_flash_player”.
7. Right cling on the install_flash_player_osx.dmg file and select Move to Trash.
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History:
- Version 2.5.1 [Mar 25, 2009] Bugs fixed
- Version 2.5.0 [Jan 15, 2009] new templates added
- Version 2.4.3 [Dec 21, 2008] new templates added and improved player
- Version 2.4.2 [Nov 25, 2008] new templates added and bugs fixed
- Version 2.4.1 [Oct 20, 2008] Two new templates added
- Version 2.2.1 [Aug 06, 2008] New theme added, Full screen supported
- Version 2.2.0 [Jul 22, 2008] New themes for web publish
- Version 2.1.1 [Jul 15, 2008] Netherlands language added
- Version 2.0.0 [Apr 08, 2008] Playlist supported
- Version 1.2.0 [Feb 25, 2008] Added two new languages,bugs fixed
- Version 1.1.3 [Dec 18, 2007] Added Multi-language support
- Version 1.0.2 [Apr 28, 2007] Improved the SWF player object, bugs fixed
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About Any FLV Player
Any FLV Player is an easy-to-use web video player utility for playing FLV (MPEG-4 encoded video file for Flash) files on the Internet. With Any FLV Player, you can easily play your FLV videos on your website as it doesn't require the complicated flash authoring tool or flash development tools. It also allows you to play FLV files on your computer.
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Besides, you can customize the interface of Any FLV Player such as button color, frame color, show/hide of time and control bar.
Cool Features
- Fully customized play control panel
- If you want to play any video clips on your own website or blog, you need a FLV player Flash object, or a SWF FLV player. At the same time, you need the SWF FLV player to match your website color scheme. Any FLV player is so cool because you can adjust the color of each part to match your website. You can select your own color for the control panel, play/pause button, time display, play position slide etc. You can decide to put the control bar on the top or bottom of the video.
- Cool themes for web videos
- Video player templates of different styles are available. Go to 'Publish' > 'Publish for Web with Customizable Theme' to preview the cool themes of web video player. It is very convenient to preview the theme. Only one click is needed to embed the player to your video to preview. You may select one that matches the style of your website or blog.
- Rich parameter settings for web videos
- The program provides advanced users with rich parameter settings for web videos. Go to 'Publish' > 'Publish for Web with Customizable Theme'. Turn to 'Customize Properties' at the bottom right window. There are basic properties, panel properties, video properties, etc. You may change movie size, play mode, background color and so on.
- Show/Hide of video play list and playback feature
- The web video player supports show/hide of video play list. You can show a list of video files in one player. All video players have such features as playback, time display, volume control and full screen toggle buttons.
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- It requires some coding work while you want to integrate video playback on your website. You need to know some basic knowledge about FLASH or XML. However, with Any FLV Player, you can playback videos on your website with a few clicks. You don't need to have any coding skills.
- Automatically inject FLV video meta information
- The Macromedia Flash 8 FLV Playback component functions best when your .flv contains valid metadata, however, some FLV encoder doesn't output the metadata. With Any FLV Player, the FLV metadata will be automatically injected to your FLV video file, including playback duration, audio, video information etc. So, the visitor of your website will get better playback effect with the metaData injected video file.
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- The fully resizable window lets you playback FLV with any size you want. Furthermore, the program also supports quick shortcut to zoom 2x or to original video size. It also supports full screen playback.
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- It is rather convenient to get the output files containing codes which include html, xml, swf and relevant folders for you to be edited by Dreamweaver or FrontPage.
- Single/batch FLV video(s) input
- You may input single video or batch clips to be published onto the same webpage.
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- Single/batch video conversion of various formats into FLV or other formats
- The integrated converter allows you to convert video files of different formats such as MOV, WMV, FLV, MPEG-4, MPG, RM, RMVB, AVI, VOB, ASF, DV, 3GP, M1V and M2V into FLV or other formats. The conversion speed and quality are perfect.