the new updater arrangements for Flash Player, which are required to get these important 10.1.82.76 fixes.
- on Firefox and Opera, the new downloader has to be accepted, and then appears to complete -- with no clear message that it has, just an alert on which you can hit cancel or close. Yet if you do, the update won't be installed. You instead need to leave the alert alone, and close Firefox itself, then restart it. Highly error-prone, and the only way to be sure is to use the www.adobe.com/software/flash/about to see that you have the new version numbers. I suspect many people will not actually get the critical update until this is made more robust and clear. Dangerous.
- on Google Chrome development channel versions (5.xx), you don't even get a chance to install the critical update. You get a message that Chrome takes care of itself now, by updating Chrome whenever Adobe updates Flash. Except Chrome wasn't updated yesterday. A workaround I used was to disable the Shockwave Flash plugin in Chrome plugins. Then the Adobe updater page would install the new current version. I still have the disabled copy of the old version however - maybe that will go away when Chrome 5.0.375.125 updates itself.
How it seemed from here, anyway.
[well, Chrome updated itself, on the Develop/Beta channel. To _6_.0.472.33! Very interesting, and it is properly several steps behind the Chromium alpha I also run. This version does have the new Adobe Flash, and not as a plugin at all - all plugin versions are gone. It also has new UI as Chromium has been developing. Ah, these summer months ;)]
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