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Old 02-15-2006, 03:50 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Flash not installing?

I recently noticed that for some reason, Flash objects weren't playing in Firefox for me. After a bit of tinkering, I decided to uninstall and reinstall the Flash player. This didn't work--the installer went about extracting its files, but then nothing. No confirmation message, nothing. So I went into the Firefox plugins folder, and found nothing relating to Flash except a GetFlash.exe file. So I ran that, wondering if for some reason it failed. It runs, downloads the files, and then quits at 100%, asking me to check my internet connection. I've made sure that there's nothing (to my knowledge--possibly something on the university network, but I can't affect that) between it and it's download, but it still gets to 100% and fails.

Any ideas? Any way to manually install the plugin? I haven't found anything about this from googling, but it's incredibly annoying given Flash's prevalence on the web. I'm running Firefox 1.5.

EDIT: Just updated to Firefox 1.5.0.1, and no change. It's weird--it's not telling me that there's a flash file there and that it doesn't have the player. It's like it loads the file, and tries to play it, but just shows white space. It even sizes the page correctly around the flash file, but just won't play it. I'm totally baffled.
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Old 02-15-2006, 04:05 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Are you using adblock? Disable it temporarily.

(Note your firefox memory footprint before disabling it, then after. That thing leaks like a sieve.)
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Old 02-15-2006, 05:12 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Nothing. Same problem as before
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Old 02-15-2006, 10:11 AM   #4 (permalink)
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What version of Flash? (aboutlugins) Does it show as enabled?

What other plugins? Disable the others & quit/run FireFox.
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Old 02-15-2006, 07:02 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Did you recently install/upgrade Quicktime? If you look at the following link, it sounds like these people had a similar problem, and it was combination of Adblock and the Quicktime plugin causing the problem.

<a href="http://www.brainstormsw.com/weblog/archives/120">http://www.brainstormsw.com/weblog/archives/120</a>
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Old 02-16-2006, 02:14 PM   #6 (permalink)
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It's telling me version 8.0 r22.

I tried deleting everything out of the plugins folder and installing flash, and nothing changed.
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Old 02-16-2006, 02:17 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Did you recently install/upgrade Quicktime? If you look at the following link, it sounds like these people had a similar problem, and it was combination of Adblock and the Quicktime plugin causing the problem.

<a href="http://www.brainstormsw.com/weblog/archives/120">http://www.brainstormsw.com/weblog/archives/120</a>
Yes!!! That fixed it! Thanks for the link!

Long story short, it turns out that for some reason Quicktime was trying to play the files, which explains why they would sorta show up but not actually play. Installing quicktime alternative fixed it.
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Old 02-16-2006, 05:56 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Glad it's working for you. Here's another fix that doesn't involve installing the Quicktime alternative. It just requires going into the Quicktime plugin settings and telling it not to handle Flash files.

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Some people who have both QuickTime and Flash Player installed may have a problem where QuickTime tries to play a flash file when it should be played by Flash Player instead.

To fix this problem, first, go into your Control Panel on Windows. Switch to classic view there if you have Windows XP. There is a QuickTime icon. Please click it open.

In the dropdown, Browser Plug-in is selected. 1 checkmarked box, and 3 unchecked boxes underneath it. Then a button called "MIME Settings..."

Click on "MIME Settings..." Open Miscellaneous, by clicking the plus sign to expand it. Scroll down and make sure everything in Miscellaneous is unchecked. Especially uncheck flash file.

You may want to do this to the Audio section as well.

Rememeber to press OK after you make the changes.

Link:<a href="http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/help/pluginerror">http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/help/pluginerror</a>
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