[pchelpers] Re: Adobe Flash Player

Thanks Ekhart.
It worked this time round.

At 23/04/2009, you wrote:
>Hi Eric
>
> > Further to the Flash Player Saga.
> > I noticed that the install program installed the plugins to the
> > Opera/plugin folder.
> >
> > I uninstalled Opera and edited the registry to delete all reference to 
> Opera.
>
>There's no reason to uninstall Opera. If you use Firefox to go to the
>correct installation page, it should install the plugin correctly
>regardless of whether you have other browsers or not and regardless of
>whether these also have the plugin or not.
>
> > Re-ran flash installer and all it did was load files to
> > "Output folder: C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash"
> > as well as to
> > "Execute: C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\uninsall_plugin.exe"
> >
> > It also extracted some .dll files.
>
>AFAIK there is no standalone installer of the flash plugin for Firefox.
>What exactly did you install? Probably the IE plugin.
>
> > The forums I've visited don't deal with this indepth, merely advises to
> > download
> > and install the plugin from the Mozilla website - which I have done 4 
> times
> > now,
> > under differing circumstances.
>
>I'm not sure what you downloaded but i'm pretty sure it wasn't the Adobe
>Flash Player plugin which is AFAIK not on the Mozilla website - you have
>to go to http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ with Firefox.
>
>Maybe it'd be better to first go to the test pages for this and other
>plugins: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Testing_plugins
>
>Lots of troubleshooting tips for the Firefox Flash plugin here:
>http://kb.mozillazine.org/Flash
>
>
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > At 22/04/2009, you wrote:
> >> I have installed Adobe Flash Player.
> >> It works under Opera but not under Firefox.
> >>
> >> Any suggestions?







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