# Anyone else have Firefox blocking Flash and the Flash update is failing.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-firefox-blocking-flash-and-the-flash-update-is-failing/711947>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [February 6, 2015, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-firefox-blocking-flash-and-the-flash-update-is-failing/711947 "2015-02-06T05:11:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![dzeiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/46a35a/32.png) [@dzeiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dzeiger)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-firefox-blocking-flash-and-the-flash-update-is-failing/711947/21 "2015-02-07T03:41:49Z")

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> [@thelurkinghorror](#):
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> Maybe it’s a bug but that’s not how it works for me. Click update, go to “Plugin Check & Updates” page, go to Adobe, uncheck McAfee because fuck that shit, download, install, confirm for the thousandth time that yes, I want to update when I want to update, restart Firefox (yes, I confirm that’s necessary), POW! Back to Youtube.

I actually did have a slight problem with it this time, in that the Adobe page where you download the install file had flash on it somewhere, so I did get the “Firefox has blocked flash on this page” warning.

Not sure if it would have done anything to block the download, I just allowed it for the page.

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**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-firefox-blocking-flash-and-the-flash-update-is-failing/711947/22 "2015-02-11T01:08:14Z")

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I gave up on Youtube with Firefox a while ago. I can fix it for a week or two, but then it stops working again, so fuckit, now I just switch to Chrome when I want to watch something on Youtube.

And then if I want to save it, I switch back to Firefox and download it, because Chrome won’t let me do that (to be fair, I stopped trying after one attempt, because it’s so easy to do with Firefox, and I use FF for everything else anyway.)

If we can put a man on the moon…

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**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-firefox-blocking-flash-and-the-flash-update-is-failing/711947/23 "2015-02-11T02:41:25Z")

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> [@Darth\_Nader](#):
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> My main home computer at the moment cost $35 brand new, uses Epiphany for a browser, and is nailed to the wall next to a TV.

I have heard many stories of your people, but believed they were just that— stories. Bedtime tales for children. Now I know the legend is true. The fabled race of the Raspberry tribe, so frugal, yet so filled with pride. The spirit of the Linux courses through your superior veins. If only my ancestors had lived to see this day. _We have much to learn from you._

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**Author:** ![Kinthalis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kinthalis/32/16084_2.png) [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-firefox-blocking-flash-and-the-flash-update-is-failing/711947/24 "2015-02-11T15:25:29Z")

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Nothing worthwhile is ever done in flash.

So count your lucky stars and move on. 😉

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