We will be making the decision to silently install on a case-by-case basis. I do want to note that we are not promising that all Flash Player updates going forward will be completely silent. The main hope of the silent updater is to enable Adobe to respond more quickly with greater saturation against zero day attacks. In an interesting sidebar, Adobe is going to require confirmation before an update will be installed if it changes the default settings. A Mac version is currently under development. Lastly, the background updater feature is currently Windows-only for Windows XP and newer operating systems. Also, those users who want to be notified of updates and do not want to be silently updated can continue to use the existing update mechanism. Organizations with managed environments do have the capability to disable the background updater feature through the Flash Player mms.cfg file. I bet that is supposed to be Windows Task Scheduler, not Task Manager. Google Chrome users, who have the integrated Flash Player, will still be updated through the Chrome update system.
This will solve the problem of end-users having to update Flash Player for Internet Explorer separately from Flash Player for their other open-source browsers. If you are running multiple browsers on your system, the background updater will update every browser.
We accomplish this through the Windows Task Manager to avoid running a background service on the system. If the response says there is no new update, then it will wait 24 hours before checking again. It sounds like this updater will be a great convenience for home users and help keep the plugin up-to-date across multiple browsers.įor our initial release, we have set the new background updater to check for updates once an hour until it gets a response from Adobe. The preferences can be changed through the Flash Player Settings Manager, found in the Control Panel, if you later change your mind and wish to change the settings. Never check for updates (not recommended).Install updates automatically when available (recommended).The following three update options are available to users: After a successful installation of Adobe Flash Player 11.2, users will be presented with a dialog box to choose an update method.
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