Flash (or lack of) is ruining my life
I have a mid-2012 MacBook Air with OS X 10.9.2. Ever since the last OS upgrade it has refused to play anything using Flash Player. I’ve removed the copy of Flash Player and then re-installed from scratch, but I still get the message to update to the latest version! How can I get Flash Player to work? Alan Stovold There’s a possibility you didn’t properly reinstall Flash the first time around. Open System Preferences > Flash Player and click Advanced > Delete All. Now go to Applications > Adobe and drag the whole of the Flash Player folder to the Trash. Restart Safari and go to get.adobe.com/flashplayer to reinstall the latest version. Finally, restart Safari a second time.
Should you wish to be free of Flash altogether, learn from the iPad. You see, the iPad doesn’t support Flash, so video sites offer HTML5-based video as well. To ask for it, open Safari > Preferences > Advanced and tick ‘Show Develop menu in menu bar’. Click the new ‘Develop’ menu item that appears and choose User Agent > Safari iOS7 – iPad. Your MacBook now tells sites it’s an iPad and they use HTML5 video. You may, however, get nagged to view the mobile version of the site.