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   Adobe Flash Player 13.0.0.201

   Josh Centers

   Adobe has speedily updated the Mac version of the standalone [1]Flash
   Player to version 13.0.0.201 to fix a crash that was introduced in
   Flash Player 13. It turns out that Flash Player 13 was crashing because
   it was trying to use CPU instructions that were not available on
   certain Macs produced between 2006 and 2008. If you've been affected by
   this bug, you should update immediately. Or, like many of us, you could
   uninstall Flash Player, and instead rely on the version of Flash Player
   bundled inside the Google Chrome Web browser (see '[2]Isolate Adobe
   Flash by Using Google Chrome,' 8 February 2013). Chrome's version of
   Flash doesn't suffer from this bug. (Free, 14.9 MB, [3]release notes)

References

   1. http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
   2. http://tidbits.com/article/13545
   3. http://helpx.adobe.com/en/flash-player/release-note/fp_13_air_13_release_notes.html

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