History of Flash Plugin - Keep it up to date and troubleshoot problems

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Current M AliceWyman fixed template name
Approved M Angela Lazar Replace warning with template
Approved M AliceWyman {warning} Adobe Flash EOL
Approved M AliceWyman Activate ... -> "Run Adobe Flash" prompts
Approved M AliceWyman updated for fx68 (3-dot icon); added note for fx69 (Bug 1519434)
Approved M Tonnes Change advisories URL due to possible redirect failure for locales in current URL with /locale/
Approved M AliceWyman replaced Adobe's "about" page with Flash Player Help page, purged pre-fx60 content
Approved M AliceWyman updated for fx55
Approved M Underpass corrected reference to Mozilla plugin check page in Linux block
Approved M dskmori remove remained Plugin Check link.
Approved M AliceWyman removed reference to Plugin Check page. See https://support.mozilla.org/forums/knowledge-base-articles/712532
Approved M Tonnes Change Adobe S&A link to allow localizable URL w/ paragraph (maintaining a redirect)
Approved M pollti added win10 (Flash protected mode)
Approved M Chris Ilias purged pre-fx35 content
Approved M philipp flash ships directly in ie on windows 8 & higher
Reviewed M Bolaram Paul UnReviewed
Approved M Joergen Fixed link and linktext
Approved M Mark Schmidt removed flashblock template
Approved M Mark Schmidt added [[Template:flashblocked]]
Approved M AliceWyman renamed section: Installing or updating Flash
Approved   novica Rewrite search summary to less than 140 characters.
Approved   Joni removed anchor link - target section is right beneath it
Approved M AliceWyman Ttoubleshooting: another link to "Adobe Flash protected mode in Firefox" article for plugin crashes
Approved M AliceWyman Troubleshooting: linked to "Adobe Flash protected mode in Firefox" article.
Approved M AliceWyman Shortened hangs section: replaced steps to disable Flash HWA with link to another article.
Reviewed M AliceWyman edit to last revision to link to new article for fx38
Approved M Lan Removed instructions to disable PM and linked to the other article
Approved M AliceWyman added Image:Fx38-UI-AdobeFlash-protected-mode
Unreviewed   AliceWyman Disable Flash protected mode: updated for fx38
Approved M AliceWyman Replaced Flash Protected Mode note with a warning - see discussion
Approved   Joni then = than
Approved M AliceWyman added Flash Protected Mode note with link to blog post
Approved   Tonnes add period
Approved M AliceWyman "Activate Adobe Flash" prompts
Approved   Artist minor edits (grammar)
Approved   AliceWyman minor edit to update link to renamed article
Approved   AliceWyman minor edits (line break, colon - see discussion)
Approved M AliceWyman Other Flash problems and solutions - see discussion.
Approved M AliceWyman Disable Flash protected Mode for fx36, win8
Approved M AliceWyman added newly-approved Template:DisableHWAflash
Approved M AliceWyman Updating Flash: linked to Adobe's page on background updates
Approved M AliceWyman removed link to outdated "Flash 11.3 doesn't load video in Firefox" article
Approved M AliceWyman tweaked steps for fx35, win7 to disable Flash protected mode
Approved M AliceWyman reordered troubleshooting sections and edited fx35 protected mode steps for win7 .
Approved M ideato correct my previous fx35 win 7 + 8
Reviewed M ideato disable Flash Protected Mode for fx35 on win 7/Vista, see discussion
Approved M AliceWyman updated for fx35, mentioned automatic updates for win, mac
Approved M AliceWyman Uninstalling Flash: moved note to the bottom.
Approved   ideato removed "Share this article" link
Approved M AliceWyman removed note about Metro mode
Approved M AliceWyman added note for win8, fx28 that plugins only work in desktop mode (see discussion
Approved M AliceWyman added "Flash plugin not working" with steps to enable Flash
Approved M AliceWyman Playing Flash videos makes Firefox hang: added "Disable protected mode in Flash"
Approved M AliceWyman added missing {/for}, better Adobe Flash Player Help page link to disable HW acceleration
Approved M AliceWyman added unresponsive plugin section for win, fx20. Revised the "Playing Flash videos makes Firefox hang" section to also apply to win, fx20 since the "Warning: Unresponsive plugin" article links to it.
Approved M AliceWyman Flash help page no longer has a box that lists your Flash player version
Approved M scoobidiver restart Firefox per http://forums.adobe.com/thread/891337
Approved M Michael Verdi unresponsive plugin info for windows only, reworded troubleshooting section and steps to make them easier to follow
Unreviewed   scoobidiver expanded hang section, sections reordered by occurence, Chrome case, removed Flash 10.1, removed duplicated link, fixed nits
Unreviewed   Swarnava Sengupta added some information about plugin hang ui
Approved M AliceWyman Fixing issues with Flash 11.3: added "and above", deleted "new".
Approved   scoobidiver fixed links
Approved M Michael Verdi New 160 character search summary
Approved M AliceWyman edit based on last revision by underpass
Unreviewed   Swarnava Sengupta added the Share this article template
Approved M Underpass Flash 11.3 is not available for the Linux platform
Approved M Michael Verdi The flash issues are not limited to fx 13 - this is our top issue so it's important to update
Approved M Michael Verdi Added fx13 only troubleshooting section for breaking Flash 11.3 issue
Approved M scoobidiver note about uninstalling Flash for all browsers, uninstall and reinstall on Win/Mac if Flash does not work properly and/or will not update
Unreviewed   scoobidiver reworded intro and summary, note as wiki note, updated links, flash based video section removed (redirected), removed Youtube and question mark sections (archived), Mac section only for fx35, missing {/for} added, mozilla.org instead of mozilla.com
Approved M scoobidiver added section about Flash HW accel., troubleshooting sections sorted by commonness, removed duplicated keywords
Approved M AliceWyman "Flash does not work in Firefox 4" section for Mac updated to steps to start in 32-bit mode since Bug 610526 is fixed.
Approved M scoobidiver Replacing the updating Flash section by a template
Reviewed   user47661 updated Adobe Flash 10.2 download link
Approved M AliceWyman edited my last revision to add that Flash 10.1 or above is needed for Flash to work on Mac OS 10.6 in Firefox 4
Reviewed   AliceWyman (bug 610526) Fx4 on Mac OS: Flash issue affects older Macs that upgraded to 10.6
Approved   AliceWyman added last step for Mac, running Firefox 4 in 32-bit mode
Approved   Michael Verdi added summary and keywords
Approved M AliceWyman added more info about Mac OS X 10.6 and Firefox 4 Beta 7
Approved   AliceWyman fixed download links for Win Mac and Linux installers (already fixed in the Installing+the+Flash+plugin article)

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