Still, however, Chrome was using the old version of Flash. On another Windows 7 computer the history of scheduled tasks was enabled and it showed both tasks had been happily chugging along. Manually running this task also failed to update Flash. The hourly task is called 'GoogleUpdateTaskUserS-1-5-21-3588425011-2520465182-2943837927-1004UA' and it runs the same GoogleUpdate.exe program only without any parameters. I force it to run by right clicking on the task.

The Windows task scheduler can keep a history, but for whatever reason, the history was disabled on this particular copy of Windows 7. I started with the daily task figuring that if the computer was not running at the scheduled time (which varies on each computer) perhaps the task didn't run. One task runs hourly, the other once a day. Since the beginning, installing Chrome on Windows created two scheduled tasks. So, I tried to force Chrome to update itself by running the scheduled Google updates. Obviously things are no longer that simple.

It used to be that invoking the 'About Google Chrome' option on the Chrome menu bar forced the browser to check for updates. All web browser users can check on the latest version of Flash, as well as their installed version, at two Adobe tester pages: /software/flash/about and /flash-player/kb/find-version-flash-player.html Bill Clinton must have been right, there are multiple definitions of 'is', because it certainly is not up to date.Ĭhrome considers Flash a 'plugin' and Chrome users can see the version of installed plugins by entering either 'chrome://plugins' or 'about:plugins' in the address bar. This, despite the fact that Chrome reports that it is up to date (version. Yet, here I sit three (going on four by the time this was published) days later with Chrome on Windows 7 still using the old version (11.8.800.170) of Flash.

That same day Google announced that 'We are updating Flash Player to version 11.9.900.117 on Windows and Mac via our component update system (i.e. Three days ago, on October 8th, Adobe released a new copy of the Flash player, version 11.9.900.117 (see the Release Notes and Announcement).

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