
It also happens to be a common source of headaches for some Mac users, occasionally causing browser crashes, excessive resource usage, and potential security issues, which is what Apple is looking to address by disabling all but the most recent versions.

“APPLE-SA-1 OS X: Flash Player plug-in blockedĭue to security issues in older versions, Apple has updated the web plug-in blocking mechanism to disable all versions prior to Flash Player 14.0.0.145 and 13.0.0.231.”įlash is frequently used for web based video, music clients, interactive websites, banner advertising, animations, and a variety of other interactive web features. The change was noticed initially by MacRumors, with a note from Adobe about which versions of the Flash plugin were automatically disabled by Apple:
