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Why does `swfobject.getFlashPlayerVersion()` sometimes incorrectly report the installed Flash Player version?

April 26, 2017Flash incorrectly installed Player report version

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Why does `swfobject.getFlashPlayerVersion()` sometimes incorrectly report the installed Flash Player version?

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In the past years there have been several occasions where a Flash Player didn’t expose the right version number externally – as can be retrieved with JavaScript -, caused by corrupt Flash Player Mac OS X installers, affecting Firefox, Opera and Safari on Mac OS X, and also all JavaScript detection scripts, including SWFObject 2, SWFObject 1.5, UFO and the Adobe Flash Player Detection Kit.