Adobe Flash Player Powerpc G5

PowerPC Mac owners can now experience Flash 11.7 with the latest unofficial hack update.

Here it goes, I cannot utilize my Flash Player anymore - you all know what a pain that is. I now keep getting notices that I have an 'unsupported operating system.' I have a Mac OS X 10.4.11 Power PC G5. Adobe, as you all know, no longer supports the system. I have tried everything to get my Flash Player back-up and running, with no progress. It seems I may have found a suitable fix to allow flash videos (as poorly as adobe flash is coded for Linux and OS X platforms) to finally play on my old, but very much alive 12' PowerBook G4. I'm not talking HD videos in DVD glass pond-like quality, but I'm talking 1fps to an estimated 10-15fps with mp3 quality audio that doesn't stutter. Here it goes, I cannot utilize my Flash Player anymore - you all know what a pain that is. I now keep getting notices that I have an 'unsupported operating system.' I have a Mac OS X 10.4.11 Power PC G5. Adobe, as you all know, no longer supports the system. I have tried everything to get my Flash Player back-up and running, with no progress.

Less than a week ago I informed you that the fantastic Adobe Flash hack that brought Flash 11.1 to PowerPC Macs had been updated to 11.5. Officially Flash releases stopped at 10.1 for the Power PC.

Well, as of 18th May 2013, the hack has been tweaked and updated to cover Flash version 11.7 – currently the latest version of Flash being offered officially by Adobe to Intel machines.

You can download the updated files here.

I would just like to thank the creator of these hacks (which isn’t me). He has helped so many PowerPC Mac owners keep their beloved computers as current as possible.*

However, with the recent news that future TenFourFox wont support plugins, how long these updates will keep coming and keep working is a question no one can answer. After all, these hacks merely trick your Flash Player and browser in to thinking it is a newer version, and while most sites work there will be a few – more and more with time – that genuinely need Flash 11 and all the new things it brings.

* NOTE: older versions of Flash may be vulnerable to attacks, that would have been patched in newer versions. Be aware of this. While this enabled Flash 11.7, it is essentially Flash 10.1 tricked.

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