I downloaded the version of Flash Player available about March. It totally wrecked my ability for playing saved or even streaming video. After loading it, all of my browsers sent a message that sites could not play some video because I did not have Flash Player installed. I un-installed, reinstalled, and did it all over again. I un-installed RealPlayer, and changed every setting I could think of. Nothing worked. I could not play any saved video with any of the players. I would get a message saying that I had missing software.
Worst thing. No video of races from Twinspires.
I think I may have tried System Restore. If I did, it didn't work (sorry can't remember). I finally found Adobe's archive of past flash players and installed version back to "11_7r700_269_win". See:
http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/...-versions.html
Also, I found some freeware called "Any Video Converter" that could play my saved videos. It also converted videos to mp3. After that, Windows Media Play could handle it. I have no idea why it could play videos stand-alone, WMP and RealPlayer could not (I also tried changing so all videos defaulted to various players, and that did not work either.)
One issue is that outside of Chrome, websites constantly ask for more memory to run Flash.
I downloaded Flash directly from Adobe, so hopefully no malware. My only speculation is that maybe some browser or video player mucked with some system setting I don't know about to mess up competitors.
Good luck.
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