How to enable the flash player in the "Yandex" browser? Installation, update

How boring and faceless would be the Internet without interesting videos, movies that can be easily viewed online, without browser games! Few people know that the flash player is responsible for playing these most favorite and ridiculous commercials on Youtube, as well as serials and online games. To be more precise, Adobe Flash Player is a free embedded plug-in from Adobe.

How to install "Adobe Flash Player" for "Yandex"?

Adobe Flash Player - a technology that allows you to place on the pages of sites of various multimedia content. And users of the network - view this content. In connection with the huge popularity of this technology, hackers regularly infiltrate computers to users under the guise of a message stating that the flash player is out of date and are asked to update it for the correct operation of the browser.

In order to protect users from hacking, the specialists of the company "Adobe" regularly release all new versions of Adobe Flash Player, in order to reduce the harm caused by hacker hacking.

"Yandex" -browser is built on the basis of the engine Chromium

Many browsers, including Yandex, already contain a plug-in, thanks to the engine on the basis of "Chrome", therefore, there is no need to carry out any actions to install a flash pen.

But if you try to include any video, such a sad smiley appears or a warning that the plug-in is disabled, most users will wonder how to turn on the flash player in the "Yandex" -browser.

Sometimes viruses on sites penetrate the browser and disable the flash player, in order to provoke the user of the network to download their infected player, which will give scammers access to personal data, wallets, e-mail.

It is recommended to download the flash player only from the official website of the developer.

Activation through the settings menu

How to enable the flash player in the Yandex browser if it was disabled by scammers or by accident?

• Type in the browser's address bar : browser: // plugins - and press Enter on the keyboard. Among the built-in plug-ins we are looking for a flash player, if it is disabled - turn it on.

• Or through the menu item - click on the "sandwich" in the upper right corner of the browser (a button that looks like three horizontal bars).
• Then choose "Settings".
• At the very bottom click on the link "Show advanced settings".
• We are looking for the "Personal Data" section and click on "Content Settings".
• Still scroll down to the menu item "Plugins". Here we select "Manage content settings".
• Now you know how to enable the flash player in the Yandex browser, click on the "enable" button and reload the browser.
• It is not necessary to mark the "Always run" item.

Clean installation of the flash player on the computer

If the above recommendations did not help and the player still does not work, it could be the result of malicious software on the infected computer. First of all, you should perform a full scan with an antivirus program. Then remove the flash player for "Yandex" from the computer completely, and also delete the browser itself and conduct a complete, clean installation.

• You can do this from the "Control Panel". Press the "Start" button, then "Control Panel" (in the versions of Operating Systems Window 8.1 and 10, right click on the button of the "Start" menu and select "Control Panel" in the drop-down menu).
• In the settings of the computer settings, select the "Category" view.
• Further in the section "Programs" click "Uninstall the program".
• We find the flash player in the list of programs, select by clicking the left mouse button on the line with the program and delete it by clicking on the "Delete" button of the same name.
• You can also delete the browser, as well as other programs and applications that are not used or damaged.

Sometimes even after a full reinstallation of the browser, the video does not play, the new version has standard settings and there is nothing left to do to turn on the flash player in the Yandex browser manually. It all depends on the version of the browser itself. Since "Yandex" already contains a built-in flash player, and it must be updated independently without user intervention, in most cases, the usual update of the browser itself is enough.

Where to download the flash player?

To install the flash player yourself, if for some reason the built-in does not suit you, you should:

• On the Adobe Flash Player site at https://get3.adobe.com/en/flashplayer/update/ppapi/ select the version of your operating system in the left column - Step 1, and the version of the player being downloaded - Step 2.
  Flash player for Yandex-browser is the same version as for Opera and Chrome, you can easily choose this version.
• It is advisable to remove the tick from additional offers in the central column of the loader page, if you do not want to get several more programs on your computer with the plugin.
• And click on "Download".

A file will be downloaded to the computer, by default it is downloaded to the Downloads folder on the system disk, but if you have configured a different path in the browser, then open the folder where the file was downloaded, click on it twice, or right click and select " Open".

• The installation wizard will start, follow the prompts. Installation usually does not last long, depending on the speed of the Internet.
• When the flash player is first installed, the wizard will ask: "Allow Adobe to install updates automatically?". Check the recommended item and click "Next".

After installation, you do not need to restart the computer, but in order to avoid any problems it is better to overload it.