Solved Firefox Wants Shockwave Update, Then Blocks Update

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User101

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FF in the Add-ons-> Plug-Ins shows Shockwave Flash is vulnerable and needs update. When I select "update", FF blocks the update because "Shockwave Flash is vulnerable"!! (See attachments) What is Mozilla doing?
 

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Thank you, Rustys. I installed the update. It seems to be working - at least I'm not getting warning messages on websites. But FF still insists that I update it. Should I just ignore that?
 

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The latest version is 23.0.0.207.
Are you running that or are you still at 23.0.0.205?

Perhaps that's why FF is telling you to update.
 
I had difficulty updating from V205 to V207 a few days ago on 2 PC's. It went through the update process and it stayed at 205 several times. Cyberfox refused to allow the old version to run without repeated warnings. Rebooted and tried again and they eventually updated to 207. Never seen that issue previously.
 
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I download using these links:
IE for Windows 7 and lower
Code: 
http://download.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/licensing/win/install_flash_player_23_active_x.exe

For non-IE browsers, except Chrome
Code: 
http://download.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/licensing/win/install_flash_player_23_plugin.exe
 
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The Flash plugin update built in to the last 2 Mozilla based browsers used has been problematical for me, so yes direct download is the way to go, although as I stated above the last update was still not straightforward. Possibly the issue would not exist if I gave permission to automatically allow updates, but that just isn't happening.
 
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I've been unable to install Flash in Firefox. Nothing happens when I double click on the download. I've tried to 'run as administrator' from the containing folder but nothing happens.
 
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