Web Development Insight

I have been fighting trying to upgrade from Flash Player 9.0.28.0 to 9.0.45.0 (Firefox and IE 7). First way was go to Adobe site and try to update the plug-ins. Neither one worked. I thought the browser cache was too small so I increased it to 150 MB (I normally keep it at 25 MB). No luck. Of course rebooting did not help. Nor clearing the browser cache.

Next was trying to download the entire player and install it. That scenario did not work, either. The install would start but say I have insufficient disk space. Free up 5000K more. There was plenty of disk space - well over 13 GB. Cleaning the temp directory was to no avail. Grrrr! Searching the Adobe site was a dead end as was the general Internet.

Finally I uninstalled the flash player from all browsers. Adobe has a tool to do this. Then I rebooted just to make sure , though it was not a requirement. Next I went to a site that uses a flash movie. I was prompted to install the latest version of flash player (I did this in IE7 and Firefox). Both browsers installed 9.0.45.0 and I was finished. Just to satisfy my curiosity I verified the flash player version.

Doug