Adobe AIR

worst product ever made, company uses child slave labor.

Although Adobe advertises the system requirements for AIR 31.0.0.96 as "Mac OS X v10.10 or later," the installer allows installation on a system running OS X 10.7.5.

Just dump this crap!

The version downloaded from this website never goes beyond "installing" Downloaded it twice and tried 2 different Macs. Success with a download from Adobe directly. The software itself, does what it needs to.

v19.0.0.190 patches 23 (twenty-three) security holes, all due to its incorporation of Adobe Flash. The fact that Adobe pushed this update outside of their usual 'Second-Tuesday-of-the-Month' schedule indicates that there is imminent exploitation of these security holes. Therefore: UPDATE IMMEDIATELY! - - Or simply dump both AIR and Flash.

As of Tuesday, 2015-08-11, Adobe AIR is now up to version 18.0.0.199. The update includes 35 security patches. Adobe considers this update to be 'Critical'.

Whenever Adobe Flash is updated, keep an eye out for an AIR update as well, because Flash is incorporated into AIR. Adobe does a lousy job informing people about AIR updates, not even bothering to post on the AIR download page what is the latest version. You literally have to download the most current version and check out the Installer to learn what version you're installing. That's both lazy and stupid of Adobe. :-P

Adobe AIR 14.0.0.178 was actually released on August 12, 2014 alongside Flash 14.0.0.176. It was updated specifically because AIR incorporates Flash. The Flash update included CRITICAL security patches. From Adobe's Security Bulletin: http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-18.html "These updates resolve memory leakage vulnerabilities that could be used to bypass memory address randomization (CVE-2014-0540, CVE-2014-0542, CVE-2014-0543, CVE-2014-0544, CVE-2014-0545). "These updates resolve a security bypass vulnerability (CVE-2014-0541). "These updates resolve a use-after-free vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2014-0538)." You can look up the CVE reports at: http://cve.mitre.org/find/index.html

This is a link to an old version of Air. Anyone minding the store?

Att. MacUpdate: Current stable version is 3.7.0.1860.

When is Adobe going to update with a stable version of Air and Flash?

Blargh. I know this is not a *big* deal, but it frustrates me that the attention to detail and problematic culture of Adobe are evident from even this changelog item above: "On OS X, some fonts do not rending properly when viewing Flash content in the Google Chrome browser (3506958)" Having been part of Adobe beta cycles and testing for many years, I am just more and more frustrated with this company and it's directions. Even after offering many suggestions that would help tremendously, it seems that they are oblivious to outside influence and correctional suggestions.

Not beta any longer

I personally don't care about the concept as the apps I have seen written are below average in general. I could actually forgive this if there was a way to deploy to an enterprise. Once again Adobe has figured out how to make their bad installation ideas worse than before. Without a logical way to install this in mass, how does Adobe expect it to be supported in mass?

Well, based on no major reported security holes I'd say this is at least better than Java as a cross-platform compiler. Then again that's really not saying much now is it...?

why is it called "air" and not "lead"? slow and cup eating animal that is...

Does nothing but halt and crash- Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS) Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000000 VM Regions Near 0: --> __PAGEZERO 0000000000000000-0000000000001000 [ 4K] ---/--- SM=NUL /Volumes/VOLUME/Adobe AIR Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Installer __TEXT 0000000000001000-0000000000007000 [ 24K] r-x/rwx SM=COW /Volumes/VOLUME/Adobe AIR Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Installer

Why no simple way to find out which version of Adobe Air is installed? Something like a small app or a prefs pane which could also let you download and install the latest version? I did track down a small Air app which tells you which version you have installed, but surely this should be something that Adobe provide? http://knomedia.com/blog/2009/12/10/adobe-air-version-checker/

It is just unfair to kill the ratings of this product low because of squabbles about Adobe Politics, or temporary bugs ect.. This virtual machine is in many ways better than Java, wich started from a GREAT idea : one code -->all platform ...an utopia at the time !. This thing is as complex as an OS now, and has a crew of elite programmers at its core ( open source, called 'Tamarin' ), and it's FREE - as a great project like this should be - So please consider that before bitching

Adobe forces you to install as an admin user. There's no way to install as a normal user in case you want to limit the possible damage their buggy software can cause.

i've to use Air for MangoSpring, a tool we use in my company for collaboration. works with the beta of air, but there is a watermark on it that is just very annoying, the same for flash beta... i know i'm using a beta, i don't need to be reminded in every single flash / air app...