Webkinz Members – Please Update your Flash Player
Due to an issue with a recent version of Flash, all Webkinz members should update their Flash Player as soon as possible. Adobe, the makers of Flash, announced that they have fixed two security problems with the software and that all users should update to the newest version.
Updating your Flash Player is simple:
- Visit the Adobe site by clicking here.
- Click the button that says ‘Update Now’
- Following the prompts from the website, open your download folder and double-click on the installer.
We want to ensure that every Webkinz member has a safe and happy experience. Updating your Flash will help to protect your computer security not only when you’re playing in Webkinz World but whenever you’re online.
I’m not sure if I can do this…
That is easier said than done. If this were my own computer, I could. Since I use the public library system’s computers in my city, my hands are tied and I can’t do anything. It is a matter of when “the powers that be” decide it is time to update the Adobe flash player. It makes it rather frustrating when the flash player has been upgraded several times before the library gets an upgrade on the flash player, usually resulting in the computer crashing because it can’t handle the game program! I was hoping to get a notebook/laptop computer in the near future, but that will have to be delayed yet again as well. Oh well, it isn’t going to keep me from trying to play Webkinz! ♪♫LadyBeauty♪♫
It didn’t change or improve anything for me but i hope it works for others..
I’ll ask my dad to do this. I’m good with computers but, my dad’s a computer engineer. He’ll know if I REALLY have to do this.
Yeah my bro is GREAT at computers! And my dad is awesome at them too!
…Not me….
LOL xmy9tailxkinz ! XD
Xd thx! …………..I don’t get it…
Thanks for the update Ella! I think I may have just installed a new Adobe by accident but it should work.
Chrome does auto updates so yay:)
Will this fix the video ads that are playing in the Ad windows that are causing the slow down & glitchy problems while we are playing in Webkinz X. I was trying to take a grooming test today, and the video continually, glitches all over the place caused me to cut way to much off my client hair and colors to go in the wrong place on her head. I kept trying to fix, and video kept glitching my attempts to fix. Time for test ran out and my poor client had the worst looking hair ever! Don’t want this to happen again, but I don’t know what to do. Can not set for no adds cuz when they Mayor comes to the park I wont be able to visit her. Ads were pain enough in the log in window, slowing log in down. but now that they are suddenly crossed over into actually play area and messing with play …not happy. I understand having Ads. I know they help pay the bills in keeping up Webkinz. So if have to have them….I was ok with putting up with them them playing during the log in, but can they please not play while in Webkinz. I am hoping to not have anymore clients to wind up with lopsided rainbows for hair.
Had same problems. Fixed by switching to Chrome browser, going to settings, choose advanced options at bottom, then under content settings, under ‘Plugins’ select ‘Let me choose when to run plugin content’. This keeps all flash from running unless you right click and allow it. You right click the webkinz games, but not the little ads in Webkinz. No more ads without using Webkinz to opt out of ads, which by the way, did NOT solve flash ad problems. Hope this helps!
Thank You for the idea. I will try it. Will it mess with the Mayor visits when she comes to the park though?
Nope… Did not work. At first, it looked like it was going to work when the ads were blocked on login screen and in my house, but as soon as logged in, left the house. and went to the main map…. video ads started again. And everytime ad played webkinz continued to glich. Messed up my game points etc. With it continue to glich I’m to scarred to cut and color anyone’s hair. Since I do not want anymore clients upset, until I can get the glitches worked out so for now have cancelled all my grooming appointments. I will just have to work around glitches best I can so I can still play games. It is hard to fully enjoy, but I am not going to give up on Webkinz yet and will try to still have some fun.
This is kind of unrelated but could anyone give me advice on Amazin Hamsters. My Unity Player is too new and I don’t know where to download the Unity 2 player. Enabling the npapi thing on chrome and restarting my internet didn’t work. Any advice?
Why do i have to do it Ella?
ok i’ll do it though…
Cuz’ of security issues……
Oh… but will it fix the kinz chat problem? Can i invite ppl 2 my house?
I hope…
Will this fix my “Trading Room” problem?
i cant trade any items at all in the trading room!!! :(
Good to know and thanks for telling- I’ll be sure to check my PC for an Adobe update. Does anybody know if this will also help with the site speed? I’ve noticed Adobe keeps crashing and kicking me off the site on IE10 a lot, almost every fifteen minutes and sometimes right in the middle of a game, but the movements in games and graphics are really laggy on Chrome and Firefox (this has occurred on multiple computers at different places, so it’s not just my PC) and it made it hard to catch floaty clicky prizes and play certain timed games. Not sure if this update will resolve that, but I really hope it does!
Yeah that’s exactly what it does to me and I updated Adobe right away a few days ago (their website has a black background right now). I also clear my cache daily in case that helps. I get kicked off regularly on both Chrome and Firefox. Nothing helps. I can barely get anything done, forget about getting to daily activities! If I’m on half an hour, I end up having to sign in again like literally six or seven times. I can’t even express how much I miss the old webkinz, it might have been the same but at least it worked! No amount of family score prizes make up for the lack of usability of the site :(
TOTALLY AGREE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here’s a for instance, I just logged in on firefox because chrome won’t work at all this morning. First three log in attempts didn’t let me in at all, the fourth let me in log enough for my pet to ask for something and then adobe crashed at the request. So I try to log in two more times (didn’t work) and then the last time I got in and as soon as my pet asked for a change of clothes adobe crashed again. And this is the way it’s working for me and has been for days. I can only play so so well on my iphone, the screen is small and blurry and decorating a room is tedious. I can’t open mail or send friend requested marshmallows or anything like that. So much can’t be done on the app that it makes going into webkinz a necessity. And going in gets me kicked out repeatedly. I have estore points I’d like to spend, but I can’t stay in my rooms (the home PC has the better view) long enough to figure out what I want to put in the room.
Yah, sadly doesn’t seem to be working… :( I didn’t use to get kicked off of chrome and firefox before X, but they always lagged. I pretty much play as much I can on IE10 before getting booted off. I’m pretty patient, and I understand there’s a lot of stuff being worked out, and Im just hoping things resolve soon so we can actually enjoy the changes- because they look like it’s a lot of fun once the bugs are cleared!
I agree; it’s not fun anymore. The pets are so annoying when they keep making demands for things when I am playing a game or doing activities. It’s not worth the hassle. I hope Ganz takes these comments seriously.
I follow all the steps it tells me; then it says that changing or downloading this stuff could harm my computer, so I don’t do it. I miss the old Webkinz. Sigh.
COOL!!!!!!!!!!!! OH AND TAILS’ I HAVE LISTEN TO YOUR PLAYLIST ON KINZ TUBE HAHAHAH KAKASHI’S THEME! LOL! I may have underestimated webkinz X ( BBDragneel dislikes it..A LOT)
War of Change! That’s what I am going through! lil sis here! XD going to Camp Brave I see lol! *subscribed* there you go!
THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!! The remix is SWEET!!!!!!
Ok… We must be safe, update is very good for our computers. :) :D
Well, if it’s just security issues, I guess it’s still gonna be as slow as it is now. Seriously considering quitting Webkinz.
Don’t Quit Webkinz!!!
Why? It’s not really even good anymore. Not to me, anyway.
YOU?! QUITTING WEBKINZ?! NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
Aww Pokekinz, I know how ya feel. Webkinz X is pretty much a pain. Please don’t quit ,-,
*Sighs* I’m still considering it. I mean, Shadow calling me by the name I entered as my name just seems to weird…. Especially because people don’t usually call me that. That’s not the main problem, mind you. Webkinz has always run slow for me, and Webkinz X just made it slower. Everything is even glitchier than it was before (there’s no denying it, even the old Webkinz was full of quirks. Now it’s just overflowing with them). Plus, I can only use KC+ in the Clubhouse (can’t chat in the Park no matter what I do), and clicking on the phone icon anywhere messes it up, I can’t access emoticons while I’m there, I can’t even use actions to communicate, everything looks like the app (which means the pets walk strangely and the clothes don’t work as intended), the energy bars are still messed up even after the maintenance date, I can’t dress my pets in the Clubhouse anymore for Thor knows why (….. Actually, I don’t think he does. Never mind), my pets blink way too much (minor, but still annoying. I don’t mind occasional blinking, but it kinda seems like they’re either in bright sunlight or they have stuff in both of their eyes), my pets energy meters still go down when I’m not using that pet (only if I’ve used it at some point after Webkinz X was launched), even if I’m not logged on. Besides, Webkinz was going downhill before Webkinz X, too. All this shoving Deluxe in our faces, firing Doctor Quack, changing Ms. Birdy (she really freaks me out now. She looks so… Strict…. She used to be kinda cute), and the “streamling” of KinzChat Plus. That just…. It’s so… It’s just– JUST–GRARGLEFLIPITTIKRIZ! I might still get plushes, though, but without the codes most likely, and not straight from GANZ. I don’t know. GANZ, can’t you at least change some of this for the better? People are quitting more and more. There are so many of my friends on my friends list that never have a Green Smiley next to their username.
I am having a lot of problems too, chating at the park and club house does not work for me but I see others chating away and the fruit trees that I bought that are suppose to give a fruit per day is not working. having to feed the pets constantly and having them talk that they want this or that is annoying, they should have changed one thing, perfected it and than gone to another. What can I say.
I understand you, but please don’t quit…idk but this freak me out, too. I just can’t imagine life without Webkinz so I’ll accept all these changes … some are good some not really but I’ll always love Webkinz…. even some of us are quitting I’ll never do this because there are some people who have worked a lot preparing Webkinz for a new decade of fun… so this isn’t fair for them. That’s all.
I think it’s pretty fair. Especially since all the Deluxe stuff is just to make money. I can imagine life without Webkinz, but it’s not like I’m trashing the plushes because I don’t like the site anymore. They’re still my characters. I honestly don’t find Webkinz that addictive.
Ok, you’re right, not so addictive but it’s fun. And maybe you’re right here ,too you can make a lot of money with deluxe. I’ve never been deluxe, but I’ve heard it’s pretty cool. Maybe I’ll be one day , but I’m ok right now with my account. So if you want to quit, it’s your decision. :( :( :(
think about shadow… its not his.. or hers fault! you leaving them behind? that…. is so sad!
I agree.
My Webkinz was running super slow, so I switched from Firefox to Chrome and now it is faster than it has ever been. However, I am not able to go to Mazin Hamsters because the unity web player is not compatible with Chrome.
I can’t go to the Adventure Park, now. I either get there and it freezes up, or I get a blue screen. Uuugh… :(