I upgraded Flash on my old laptop just yesterday. The pain and misdirection of being pushed through installing the Adobe Download Manager extension, then restarting the browser in order to actually update the plugin, seems like enough of an obstacle to significantly slow down the roll-out of the eventual fix.
Their forcing of the download manager app (painful trying to find an alternate download to upgrade Flash) should be a key reason for people to abandon the platform.
Nothing burns me up more than vendor-provided "download/update managers". I'll keep my app updated myself thank you very much. No, you don't actually need to run your program 24-7 when it's only used once every few months on my machine.
Just thinking about it makes my blood pressure rise.
(Yes, I know I can go back and uninstall the download manager, but now there are 2 of them - one specifically for IE/ActiveX and the one for Firefox that they recently created).
