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Ugh - just a heads up to the nation. I went to download Adobe Flash Player 11.5.502.146 today from get.adobe.com/flashplayer, and rather than getting the standard disk image from Adobe, you now get this garbage Google Chrome install option that you have to uncheck, along with the a 'new and improved' Flash Player installer that has to download a payload from the Internet, and will fail if you don't close Safari first before it begins it's install. This is in comparison to a regular DMG you could just click and install in the past (and extract a .pkg from by just examining the contents of the installer executable.)



I'm sure now we'll have to figure out where exactly the Adobe Flash Player.pkg package is being installed to and somehow save that, or we'll have to go back to creating Composer snapshots.



Thanks Adobe.



~Ted

<Maxwell Smart>



It's Adobe's old "One code set across platforms so we save money, let those pesky Mac admins subsidize our development, they like doing that" strategy, with a twist of "Gotta look busy, quick, someone create a bizarre new policy so we can continue to look like we're getting paid for being proactive" and a side of "Why make things easier, gotta steer them to our 'revenue-healthy' cloud service" trick.



</Maxwell Smart>



Wait...did you know...



"Creative Cloud is the future." - Adobe Monopoly CEO (dancing on a mountain of rupees)



<tongue-in-cheek>

Adobe Monopoly CEO (dancing on a mountain of rupees)


Now THAT made me LOL! :D
Though I doubt Mr "Creative Cloud is the future!!" Narayen dances at all. Seems like too much of a stiff to do something like that. Maybe that's why I found that image so funny :)

No response from Adobe and my application again to distribute Flash! I think I've pi**ed them off too much over the years.

@tkimpton I got mine in about an hour. However, they require that you validate your email FIRST. If you don't perform that validation, you'll never hear back from them. Mine was in my spam folder.

Yes i did validate my emails address again.

Still nada.... I curse you Adobe!

https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=7106

http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/licensing/mac/install_flash_player_17_osx_pkg.dmg



Just click the "Download DMG Installer (for System Administrators)" here: https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html

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