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The typical media player can't handle Flash videos, so a variety of specialized players have sprung up for this purpose. Flash Player Pro is one such program, promising to both manage your library of Flash videos and allow you to download new ones. We tried out the trial version of the program, which is limited to 15 days of use and has a few other limitations. It worked well enough, but strange error messages caused us to waste time troubleshooting problems that didn't actually exist.
The program's interface is dated and not particularly attractive, but it's easy enough to figure out. A tree hierarchy lets users navigate to the directories where their Flash videos are stored; a pane below the tree hierarchy displays the contents of each folder. The large pane on the right holds the actual player. Flash Player Pro had no problem playing Flash videos that we already had, but downloading new ones proved to be unnecessarily confusing. We copied the URL of a video we wanted to download, posted it into the appropriate box on the interface, and clicked Go. The program displayed a list of Flash videos contained on the Web page, with check boxes allowing us to select which ones we wanted to download. This was all fairly straightforward, but every time we tried to download, the program displayed a vague error message at the end of the download causing us to think that it had failed. We were about to write Flash Player Pro off completely when we discovered that, in spite of the error messages, it actually had downloaded everything we'd asked it to. We liked some of its other features, such as its ability to take screen captures and set images from the videos as our desktop wallpaper. Perhaps our favorite thing about Flash Player Pro was that it let us convert the videos into screensavers, although these contained a green box noting that they had been created with the unregistered version of the software. The program comes with a Help file that's adequate, if not particularly thorough.
Weird error messages and funky interface aside, we were impressed with Flash Player Pro's features. It's worth checking out if you do a lot of work with Flash videos. The program installs and uninstalls without issues.
Editors' note: This is a review of the trial version of Flash Player Pro 5.3.
Publisher's Description
From GoldSolution:
Flash Player Pro is a handy flash tool kit designed as Adobe Flash player and manager. It has several powerful flash tools download flash movies, preview and browse flash movie, capture flash image and set it as wallpaper, create flash screensaver with ease, and make conversion between SWF and EXE flash movies. All of these features will help you enhance and extend the usage of existing flash files.
What's new in this version: Version 5.3 supports Windows 8.
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All versions:
2.6 starsout of 24 votes
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Current version:
1.8 starsout of 5 votes
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"this is a scam!"
Version: Flash Player Pro 5.3
Pros
there are none
Cons
Crashes.. its a scam.. why not just use adobe flash instead of installing this software that causes crashes and installs all kinds of junk software.
Summary
the only good review is 5 stars and points you to another website with more good reviews.. HMMMM looks like the software manufacturer is posting reviews.
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"Dont Waste your Time"
Version: Flash Player Pro 5.3
Pros
None. It's not worth the risk!!!!!
Cons
Installs too many things besdies the flash player. Just go to WWW.Adobe.com and download teir flashplayer. The worst that could happen is that it install Google Chrome with the download.
Summary
To many add ons.
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"Deceiving, will mess up your Internet searching"
Version: Flash Player Pro 5.3
Pros
Easy and fast to uninstall.
Cons
This is *NOT* an Adobe product, despite its deceiving name. It will automatically pop up on your PC as a "Would you like to update Flash Player Pro?" notification. Default setting for the install is the "Quick (Recommended)" option, which if you read the small print says it will change your browser home page settings, use Bing as your search engine, and other undesirable changes to settings. (Note that using the "Advanced" install simply gives you the option to decline these changes ... what a crock.) Also by default you will get three or four other new installs of junk software.
Summary
Too bad Adobe is using a name like Flash Player that can apparently be so easily mimicked as to deceive users into installing unwanted software.
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"I'm tried of Flash crashes"
Version: Flash Player Pro 5.3
Pros
Works but crashes!
Cons
Works but crashes!
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"Great Product"
Version: Flash Player Pro 5.3
Pros
Work fast, easy to use. quick install and worth the money.
Cons
I like everything so far
Summary
I like Flash player check out this link to read more reviews
http://www.all-video-player.com/?hop=sciondj
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