ClickToFlash 1.6b7 solves YouTube's "Old Flash? Go upgrade!" message

If you have ClickToFlash installed, you may have seen a note telling you that you have an old version of Flash and encouraging you to upgrade.

As you might expect, you don't need to upgrade Flash, but you do need to upgrade ClickToFlash. The current version is ClickToFlash-1.6b7-upload1.zip, but you may have go to the Github page for ClickToFlash to download it.

Jonathan Rentzsch explained that he hasn't been able to update it himself due to illness. However, given that it is open-source, four others (identified as ndfred, Justin, ssp and lapcat) identified the problem and a solution, and Rentzsch merged it back into the main branch of the code.

That's pretty awesome, if you ask me.

So if you've run into this problem at YouTube, take a few minutes, download the new version, quit Safari, and run the installer. Voilà!

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Hugo

i really like clicktoflash, it's one of the reasons i'm using safari more and more. but, perhaps i missed something in the article above; but, when i check for updates in the clicktoflash settings, i'm told that 1.5.3 is the newest version available. what's this 1.6b7 version about then?

March 15 2010 at 3:44 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Hugo

errr... disregard. i just read the comments above. all is clear now... carry on. =0/

March 15 2010 at 3:46 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

sebastian.holmqvist

I second Brandon in that all that is needed is to clear out all youtube and google cookies. Upgrading did not solve my problems, so instead I downgraded to stable again and cleared out all youtube and google cookies and VoilÃ¡! It all works like a charm.

March 13 2010 at 5:34 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Trax

Why does apple not adopt click2flash for the ipad. Would be the best of both worlds.

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William Carr

You Said It !

March 13 2010 at 3:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mike G

seems that vimeo isn't working now though...at least for me

March 12 2010 at 5:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

rentzsch

version 1.5.4 is about ready to go out, which rolls in 1.6b7's YouTube fix. It will be available via the normal Sparkle upgrade channel, so if you just want to wait for the auto-update, that's cool too.

March 12 2010 at 2:16 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Brandon

all I had to do was remove the cookies from youtube and restart safari - fixed the problem and didn't have to install a beta...

March 12 2010 at 1:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

wmcraveronline

I learned about this program a few months ago. It is awesome!

March 12 2010 at 11:12 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Sean

I ran into this problem and got around it by enabling HTML5 mode on YouTube. That didn't work at first, so I then deleted all google and youtube cookies I had, re-enabled HTML5 mode, and THEN it worked. :)

March 12 2010 at 9:31 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Any similar solution for me on Windows 7? I disable Flash in 'Tools,' but its just too cumbersome to toggle it back and forth.

I am envious of this Safari add on...

March 12 2010 at 9:24 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

MRCUR

It's generally not good for first impressions to have a grammar mistake in your first sentence...

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