Enable Flash Player Mac

  



The best known example of a fake Flash update is the Flashback Trojan horse, which first masqueraded as a Flash Player installer package targeting Mac users. Over 600,000 Mac users installed the fake update to Adobe Flash thinking it was valid, thereby infecting their machines with malware. In today's lesson, you will learn how to enable flash player on Mac Safari web browser. Open your Safari web browser. Click on Safari at the top left corner.

Objective

This is particularly useful for debugging recording issues from Adobe Connect perspective specially in few versions prior to 9.6 where recordings only have an option to launch in flash player mode. Could be used for debugging meeting issues as well if accessed in flash player mode.

Environment

  • Adobe Connect Hosted/On-Premise
  • Google Chrome with MAC OS client
How to enable flash player macInstall

Steps

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Install the Flash Player Content Debugger
  • Goto https://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/debug_downloads.html#fp15 and download the installer for appropriate Mac OS version
  • Choose the PPAPI installer
Check the correct version is installed
  • Open http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player.html
  • Click Check Now, it should show the latest build installed.
  • Alternately you can run chrome://version command from Chrome browser to verify the version.

Enable Flash Player Mac

Note : It might not necessarily show that debug version is installed but the key is it should show the latest we added.

Enable logging
  • Create mm.cfg file from sample instructions here : https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/configure-debugger-version-flash-player.html
  • Place the file at <HOME>/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Pepper Data/Shockwave Flash/System/ folder.
  • You might need to search the above folder location under User Library folder or System library depending upon where Chrome is installed or permissions.
  • Note, if you find the correct Shockwave Flash path but you don’t see a System folder there, create it manually and copy the mm.cfg file.
  • Ensure to delete any other copies of mm.cfg(mm.txt.cfg/mm.cfg.txt) file at any other location to avoid any conflicts.

How To Enable Flash Player Mac

Enable Flash Player Mac
Log file location

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  • Open a recording or meeting in flash player to verify if logs are getting created
  • They should be found under : <HOME>/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Pepper Data/Shockwave Flash/WritableRoot/Logs/flashlog.txt

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Additional Information

How To Enable Flash Player Mac

Additional mm.cfg properties can be added from here if needed : https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/configure-debugger-version-flash-player.html

Meeting, Recording