System requirements

The following hardware and software are required to run Macromedia Flash MX 2004 and Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004.

Authoring

The following hardware and software are required to install the Flash authoring tool.

Windows	Macintosh
600 MHz Intel Pentium III processor or equivalent Windows 98 SE, Windows 2000, or Windows XP	500 MHz PowerPC G3 processor Mac OS X 10.2.6
128 MB RAM (256 MB recommended)	128 MB RAM (256 MB recommended)
190 MB available disk space	130 MB available disk space

Complete product system requirements and recommendations are available at the Flash system requirements web page.

To install Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX Professional 2004, you must have administrative privileges. You must also have administrative privileges to remove any edition of Flash.

Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX Professional 2004 do not support Macintosh hard disks formatted with UFS. Apple has documented several UFS formatting issues for Carbon and Classic. Unless you are using native applications (Cocoa), UFS is not recommended or supported by Apple.

Flash Player 7

The following table lists system and browser requirements for Flash Player 7.

Platform	Browser
Windows 98	Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x, Netscape 4.7, Netscape 7.x, Mozilla 1.x, AOL 8, and Opera 7.11
Windows Me	Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5, Netscape 4.7, Netscape 7.x, Mozilla 1.x, AOL 8, and Opera 7.11
Windows 2000	Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x, Netscape 4.7, Netscape 7.x, Mozilla 1.x, CompuServe 7, AOL 8, and Opera 7.11
Windows XP	Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, Netscape 7.x, Mozilla 1.x, CompuServe 7, AOL 8, and Opera 7.11
Mac OS 9.x	Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.1, Netscape 4.8, Netscape 7.x, Mozilla 1.x, and Opera 6
Mac OS X 10.1.x, or Mac OS X 10.2.x	Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.2, Netscape 7.x, Mozilla 1.x, AOL 7, Opera 6, and Safari 1.0 (Mac OS X 10.2.x only)

Complete product system requirements and recommendations are available at the Flash system requirements web page.