Dear YouTube, Here’s a Rant

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Dear YouTube, Here’s a Rant

07AM, Thursday February 25, 2010

Tags: development, flash, software, youtube

I don’t know where to start with this.

YouTube Flash Fail Upgrade

Comments

By Michael on 20 April 2010 at 04:25:

For a while many sites told me to upgrade flash, and to be fair, I was slightly out of date. Problem was when I clicked the update box it did all the motions and appeared to be installed, but I still saw the upgrade messages. Then I realised that because I run the debug build of flash (due to having flash professional CS4 installed) I had to go to a special debug page to upgrade. Why couldn’t the damn flash installer detect this?!

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