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Osmoses
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Sweden5302 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-21 21:48:21
October 21 2010 19:00 GMT
#1
edit: Lol I have no idea how I made the connection between mozilla and adobe, I must have burst a blood vessel in my brain or something oO

So today when I got home from work I open up firefox and I am told in capital letters that I need to upgrade my flash player. So I go to the adobe site and press the download link.

First warning light goes off when the instructions on the next page are not telling me how to install flash, but how to install the adobe download manager. The only hint I had that I was even in the right place was that the title said "flash player"

So fuck it, I click the "allow" bar at the top and I restart firefox when the plugin is installed. As soon as I press restart I go and get myself a drink. When I come back, it seems the download is finished and done with, seeing as how the download manager is empty and a big "close download manager" button is visible at the bottom.

I go to Youtube, no dice, apparently I don't have flash player. Miffed, I go back to get.adobe and I try again. This time I am directed to the same dlm instruction page as before, only now I'm told I need to download an additional plugin in order to view the page content. I go for it, and it fails. It suggests I try manually installing, but when I download it it's a .xip file or some shit and I say no thanks. Judging by its name it doesn't even have anything to do with flash.

So I google my problems and I come upon a fellow on a messageboard with a link.

https://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player.exe

I click it, flash installs, and I'm done.

WHAT THE FUCK DID I NEED ADOBE'S SHITTY DOWNLOAD MANAGER FOR?

AAAAH!

God that pissed me off. I thought open source was supposed to prevent useless shit you didn't want or need. When did Mozilla turn into Microsoft?

Anyway, if you're having the same problems, try that link up there and tell Adobe's download manager to go fuck itself.

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ganjazerg
Profile Joined February 2010
82 Posts
October 21 2010 19:03 GMT
#2
oh god. i have been there bro. same exact story. made me rage so hard at adobe :0
semantics
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
10040 Posts
October 21 2010 19:06 GMT
#3
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/
MisterD
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Germany1338 Posts
October 21 2010 19:07 GMT
#4
haha i wanted to install flash player on my mothers notebook about two weeks ago. Guess what? Adobe website was down and i had to find an up2date installer on some third party software dl site >.<
Gold isn't everything in life... you need wood, too!
OpticalShot
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Canada6330 Posts
October 21 2010 19:09 GMT
#5
I had Windows Live Messenger bitch at me for a month saying I need to update my adobe flash player. Heck, I updated it a million times (well, uninstall + reinstall a million times of the same, most-updated version) and it never worked. It turned out that I needed it to install it for IE (not FF or Chrome)... so I installed IE, installed flash player, WLM stopped bitching, so I uninstalled IE. Oh the IT bureaucracy drama.
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CTStalker
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Canada9720 Posts
October 21 2010 19:21 GMT
#6
On October 22 2010 04:00 Osmoses wrote:
I thought open source was supposed to prevent useless shit you didn't want or need.

lol?

When did Mozilla turn into Microsoft?

this makes even less sense. adobe writes their flash players and installers, not mozilla or microsoft.
By the way, my name is Funk. I am not of your world
mOnion
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States5657 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-21 19:26:41
October 21 2010 19:25 GMT
#7
On October 22 2010 04:06 semantics wrote:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/


i'm having same problem as OP but when I try to install this it just says "No error information can be provided" for w/e the error is T_T

FUCK I JUST WASTED MY 4000TH ON THIS SHIT FUCK ADOBE
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Seide
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States831 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-21 20:01:25
October 21 2010 19:34 GMT
#8
OP being completely clueless about how open source, software and plugins work, blaming the wrong party makes for an entertaining post.
One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish.
tofucake
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Hyrule19035 Posts
October 21 2010 19:49 GMT
#9
That's like blaming your parents when you crash your car. It makes no sense.

DLM is nice when you have multiple Adobe products (like Photoshop, Acrobat, Flash, etc) as it updates everything all at once and I don't have to go update 12 different programs individually.
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Aim Here
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Scotland672 Posts
October 21 2010 20:23 GMT
#10
On October 22 2010 04:00 Osmoses wrote:
God that pissed me off. I thought open source was supposed to prevent useless shit you didn't want or need. When did Mozilla turn into Microsoft?

Anyway, if you're having the same problems, try that link up there and tell Adobe's download manager to go fuck itself.


This isn't the fault of Mozilla or Firefox or open source (or Microsoft, for that matter). It was Adobe's proprietary plugin to Firefox that nagged you into installing this unnecessary crudware. Blame them.
Enervate
Profile Joined August 2010
United States1769 Posts
October 21 2010 20:30 GMT
#11
I mean raging about not being able to watch youtube videos is completely reasonable but raging about accidentally getting the adobe dlm while trying to install flash?
limonovich
Profile Joined September 2010
England226 Posts
October 21 2010 20:31 GMT
#12
"God that pissed me off. I thought open source was supposed to prevent useless shit you didn't want or need. When did Mozilla turn into Microsoft?"

If you're that incompetent, perhaps you should just get an Apple product.

They just work.
trololo
xmShake
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
United States1100 Posts
October 21 2010 20:33 GMT
#13
Try chrome, it has built in flash, so even people like you can browse youtube without headaches.
semantics
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
10040 Posts
October 21 2010 20:38 GMT
#14
On October 22 2010 05:33 xmShake wrote:
Try chrome, it has built in flash, so even people like you can browse youtube without headaches.

Except the one i linked doesn't minimize if you maximize it on a 2nd screen and click elsewhere.
Osmoses
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Sweden5302 Posts
October 21 2010 21:46 GMT
#15
Lol I have no idea how I made the connection between mozilla and adobe, I must have burst a blood vessel in my brain or something oO
Excuse me hun, but what is your name? Vivian? I woke up next to you naked and, uh, did we, um?
brutality
Profile Joined August 2010
United States167 Posts
October 21 2010 22:08 GMT
#16
On October 22 2010 04:25 mOnion wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 22 2010 04:06 semantics wrote:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/


i'm having same problem as OP but when I try to install this it just says "No error information can be provided" for w/e the error is T_T

FUCK I JUST WASTED MY 4000TH ON THIS SHIT FUCK ADOBE


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Cube
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
Canada777 Posts
October 21 2010 22:30 GMT
#17
On October 22 2010 05:31 limonovich wrote:
"God that pissed me off. I thought open source was supposed to prevent useless shit you didn't want or need. When did Mozilla turn into Microsoft?"

If you're that incompetent, perhaps you should just get an Apple product.

They just work.


that is, until you're feeling sexy and want to try out that linux compatibility layer it inherited from freeBSD, so you install fink project, and then get stuck in dependency hell for the next five hours trying to install an irc client.
RebirthOfLeGenD
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
USA5860 Posts
October 21 2010 22:33 GMT
#18
I had this same issues when trying to watch porn. It took me three attempts to get adobe flash working because it kept forwarding me to the download manager page.

Do you know how annoying it is to open 7 porn videos 3 fucking times only to have to reload that shit?

The things I do for masturbation.
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Nytefish
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United Kingdom4282 Posts
October 21 2010 22:56 GMT
#19
Yeah the Adobe DLM has never worked properly for me either, it tries to update my stuff and just fails to do it, so I have to do it manually.
No I'm never serious.
limonovich
Profile Joined September 2010
England226 Posts
October 22 2010 12:59 GMT
#20
On October 22 2010 07:30 Cube wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 22 2010 05:31 limonovich wrote:
"God that pissed me off. I thought open source was supposed to prevent useless shit you didn't want or need. When did Mozilla turn into Microsoft?"

If you're that incompetent, perhaps you should just get an Apple product.

They just work.


that is, until you're feeling sexy and want to try out that linux compatibility layer it inherited from freeBSD, so you install fink project, and then get stuck in dependency hell for the next five hours trying to install an irc client.

who are we kidding? 90% of non-commercial mac users are teenage hipsters who don't know the difference between a kernel and a krappocino. Not to mention the fact that their definition of "dependancies" revolves around their parents' bank account.
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