I’ve seen some blog posts about the Mac uninstaller for Flash Player that is currently on Adobe Labs. Yep, it was BIIIIG (almost 40MB). There was a technical explanation for it, but let’s just say its been worked around and the mac uninstaller is now much smaller (1.3MB).

The reason I am blogging about this at all is because I was surprised by some other comments related to it. There were some fears that we might require an uninstaller when we ship the release version of Flash Player 10. I want to make sure people know that this would not be the case.

The reason for having the uninstaller, and asking that users uninstall Flash Player 9 before installing Flash Player 10 beta is that it is pre-release software. We want to make sure that the beta player installs properly.

When I was at Yahoo! engineers always talked about the approach to security as “belt and suspenders.” By having both keeping your pants up, you feel more assured that your pants are going to stay in their full upright and locked position. Our normal installer is the belt, the uninstaller is the suspenders. By the time we finish our testing process, we are comfortable with just the normal belt.

For these and other geek fashion tips, I hope you will join me for the next installment, “How Adobe Pixel Bender is like your favorite calculator wrist watch (if your watch had a multi-core Intel CPU in it)”