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Updating Flash without Admin Rights

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AnonymousUser
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I have Firefox installed with standard user privileges. I used to be able to extract the "Flash Player.plugin" from the dmg file and place it in "~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins" ... but now I can only get a file called "Flash Player.plugin.lzma"

I can't install flash with admin privileges. So what can I do?

== I updated Firefox... the whatsnew page said I should update Flash.

I have Firefox installed with standard user privileges. I used to be able to extract the "Flash Player.plugin" from the dmg file and place it in "~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins" ... but now I can only get a file called "Flash Player.plugin.lzma" I can't install flash with admin privileges. So what can I do? == I updated Firefox... the whatsnew page said I should update Flash.

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Morbus
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Hello Bill.

You probably need to contact Adobe about this, since Flash is their software... ?

sonntags
sonntags
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Hi, try with this instruction: http://www.varesano.net/blog/fabio/installing+flash+player+plugin+firefox+without+having+administrator+access+or+premissions

Worked for me (and many others, as seems)