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Firefox is suggesting I upgrade Flash Player. But latest Flash Player is not supported by Windows 2000 that I'm using. Am I best without latest Flash Player, or upgrading?

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38.33GB hard drive, Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, Processor x86 family 6 model 7, total physical memory 392,688kB, available physical memory 24,572kB, total virtual memory 1,025, 152kB, available virtual memory 171,280kB, page file space 632,464kB

38.33GB hard drive, Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, Processor x86 family 6 model 7, total physical memory 392,688kB, available physical memory 24,572kB, total virtual memory 1,025, 152kB, available virtual memory 171,280kB, page file space 632,464kB

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Is that a Pentium 3 processor?

  • Your version of Flash (Add-ons > Plugins) is "Shockwave Flash 10.2 r153" which is not supported Windows 2000 (see: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/890/cpsid_89050.html#main_system%20requirements )
  • Because of serious security issues with Flash versions 10.2.x and 10.1.x that have been corrected in current versions, you would probably be better off without Flash.
  • But there are still serious security concerns with Windows 2000, which is no longer supported or updated by Microsoft.
    • Any way you can upgrade Windows to at least XP (support will be discontinued in June 2014)?
  • Without Flash, there are a lot of sites that will no longer work properly.

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