"Adobe® Flash® Player is up to date on your system."

[deckeda]

Done

While I like that it automatically looks for updates in the background, I don't understand why it has to launch an app and pop up a dialog box telling me something I don't care about and can't act upon. Do you?

Three choices in Sys Prefs for how updates are handled and none of them include a choice for don't-globally-tell-me-anything-unless-I-need-to-do-something.

[Z]

Flash player is very obnoxious on all platforms, unfortunately. I get multiple errors on an XP machine at work each time I log in that flash player couldn't update itself.

[rgG]

And, if it pops up that little message saying that there is a newer version and you say you don't care and check the "don't remind me about this update again" box, it will still remind you again, whenever it feels like it. WTH?

[Speedy]

Adobe.

[gabester]

I've actually just been looking at deploying Flash and the new silent autoupdate feature pulling the updates down from a local server.

You need to edit (possibly create, with owner root:wheel permission to read ugo+r ) a file at:

/Library/Application Support/Macromedia (that's the root HD level Library)

The file should be called mms.cfg - be aware it needs special encoding... Like UTF-8.

You'll want it to read:

AutoUpdateDisable=0
SilentAutoUpdateEnable=1

Others here can maybe take the time to break all that down a bit more. I haven't the wherewithall to do the full writeup at the moment.

[decay]

funny it's still in a folder called Macromedia!