How to update flash player in mozilla browser

Hello, friends! The Flash Player plugin is one of the most essential for browsers, because it is he who plays all the animation, video, music, and more on the pages you visit on the Internet. Outdated versions of plugins may not correctly display the media content of sites. They can also cause viruses to infect your computer.

In this article, we will figure out how to view the version of Flash Player installed in Mozilla and update it to a new version. Well, so that you do not have to constantly monitor the release and installation of new updates for it, you should make sure that this process occurs automatically.

Change settings to automatically update Flash Player

I recommend that you choose the automatic update of Flash Player, as this will save you from having to remember to check if a new version for it has been released. Instead of you, the operating system will regularly do this and, if updates are available, it will download everything you need and install it.

By default, automatic updates are enabled, but if during installation you selected the “Never check for updates” option, then let's fix it.

On Windows 7

In the Windows 7 operating system, you can enable automatic updating of the Flash Player as follows. Click on the "Start" button and type "Control Panel" in the search bar. Next, click in the results on the item we need.

In the next window, in the "View" field, select "Large Icons" and find the "Flash Player" item in the list.

The "Settings Manager" will open. Go to the "Updates" tab here and check the "Allow Adobe to install updates" box.

On Windows 10

If you have Windows 10 on your computer, then everything looks the same as in the first paragraph. First, go to the Control Panel - click on the "Start" button with the right mouse button and select the appropriate item from the list.

Then set "View" - "Large Icons" and click on "Flash Player".

In the "Settings Manager" window, on the "Updates" tab, check the box next to "Allow Adobe to install updates."

Now Flash Player will be updated automatically as soon as a new version is available.

How to check flash player version

If you need to find out what exactly is installed on you, then you can do this in two ways.

Open the "Settings Manager" window, as described in the first paragraph, and on the "Updates" tab in the line "Connection version. NPAPI module" will indicate which version of Flash Player is installed on the computer.

There may be several different modules here, but it is NPAPI that we are interested in, since it corresponds to the Mozilla Firefox browser. "ActiveX" is needed for the Player to work in Internet Explorer, and "PPAPI" in Chrome and Yandex.Browser.

You can see everything in the Mozilla browser itself. Open it and click on the three horizontal bars in the upper right corner. Then choose "Add-ons" from the menu.

Near the name of the installed plugin, the number that is used will be indicated.

Now let's look at how to find out which number corresponds to the latest available Flash Player. You can do this on the official website of Adobe: http://get.adobe.com/en/flashplayer/about/.

Or, in the "Settings Manager" window, click on the "Check Now" button.

In both cases, you will open a page on the Internet, which is shown in the screenshot below.

Select your operating system from the table in the first column. In the second column, look for the line "Firefox - NPAPI" and see which number is indicated opposite.

Compare the version of the Player you have installed and the one that is the latest. On this page, at the top of the table, there will be a small window “Version Information”, in which you can also see the version of Flash Player installed on your computer.

Update Flash Player in Mozilla on our own

If the Mozilla Firefox browser does not have the latest version of the Flash Player plug-in installed, then you need to update it. To do this, you need to download the Player installation file from the official website of Adobe.

Do not download installation files for Flash Player from third-party resources, as the probability of catching a virus in this case is very high. If a window appears on the Internet on some site that “You need to update Flash Player”, do not click on it, but look, in the described way, which version you have, and which is new, and, if necessary, update it.

To go to the desired page, click on the "Player Download Center" link, which is located in the text above the table.

Here in the first column you can see which version of Adobe Flash Player will be downloaded to your computer, and the characteristics of your OS. In the second column, uncheck "Additional applications" so that you do not install anything extra with the Player. Then click Install Now.

Save the suggested file to your computer. Then open the "Downloads" or "Download" folder on your computer and run the Adobe Flash Player setup file. In the window where there will be a question about updates, select "Allow to install updates." Wait for the process to complete. After that, close the browser window, launch it again to update the Flash Player used in it.

Now you can be sure that the Mozilla browser is using the latest version of Adobe Flash Player, since only we figured out how to find out its version and perform a manual update.