Re: Problem with Flash plug-in.

jetjock wrote:

> When I installed the latest version of Flash player about a month ago, 
> the check mark in "Flash" on the Prefs Toolbar was removed.  When
I 
> would click on it, I was told that no Flash Player plugin was found.  
> Since Flash videos still played OK I didn't worry much about it.  Now, 
> suddenly, I'm being told I need to get the latest Flash Player and 
> videos won't play.  I noticed that "About Plugins" said that
Flash 9.0 
> r124 was installed and ok but there was no NPSWF32.dll file in the 
> Plugins folder of Mozilla.  Found it in the System 32 folder of 
> Windows and dragged a copy into the Plugins folder of Moz.  Now I have 
> the check mark back but videos still won't play.  I'm stumped!  :-(
>
Just a P.S.  Movies play fine in Internet Exploder!!

-- 

jetjock wrote:
> jetjock wrote:
> 
>> When I installed the latest version of Flash player about a month ago,

>> the check mark in "Flash" on the Prefs Toolbar was removed. 
When I 
>> would click on it, I was told that no Flash Player plugin was found.  
>> Since Flash videos still played OK I didn't worry much about it.  Now,

>> suddenly, I'm being told I need to get the latest Flash Player and 
>> videos won't play.  I noticed that "About Plugins" said that
Flash 9.0 
>> r124 was installed and ok but there was no NPSWF32.dll file in the 
>> Plugins folder of Mozilla.  Found it in the System 32 folder of 
>> Windows and dragged a copy into the Plugins folder of Moz.  Now I have

>> the check mark back but videos still won't play.  I'm stumped!  :-(
>>
> Just a P.S.  Movies play fine in Internet Exploder!!
> 
I had the same thing happen running NS 8.1. When I clcked the sit to use 
the I.E. engine the videos played OK.

On 4/14/2008 2:35 AM, squaredancer wrote:
> On 13.04.2008 23:51, CET - what odd quirk of fate caused  jetjock to 
> generate the following:? :
>> jetjock wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> When I installed the latest version of Flash player about a month
ago, 
>>> the check mark in "Flash" on the Prefs Toolbar was
removed.  When I 
>>> would click on it, I was told that no Flash Player plugin was
found.  
>>> Since Flash videos still played OK I didn't worry much about it. 
Now, 
>>> suddenly, I'm being told I need to get the latest Flash Player and

>>> videos won't play.  I noticed that "About Plugins" said
that Flash 9.0 
>>> r124 was installed and ok but there was no NPSWF32.dll file in the

>>> Plugins folder of Mozilla.  Found it in the System 32 folder of 
>>> Windows and dragged a copy into the Plugins folder of Moz.  Now I
have 
>>> the check mark back but videos still won't play.  I'm stumped! 
:-(
>>>
>>>     
>> Just a P.S.  Movies play fine in Internet Exploder!!
>>
>>   
> 
> you'll probably need to find and copy the flash-plugin.dll  ( 
> NPSWF32.DLL ) from the adobe installation location (here, it's at; 
> C:\windows\system32\macromed\flash ) into your FF plugins folder (sorry 
> - you'll have to search for yours, as it may be a personalized
installation)
> It seems that the Adobe d/l doesn't install into FF, as was once the
case...
> 
> reg

Hmmm.  SeaMonkey works okay using the Flash plugin that's in
[C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\NPSWF32.dll] without moving
NPSWF32.dll to SeaMonkey's own plugins folder.  The same is true of
Java, for which the plugin is at [C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_05
\bin\npjava11.dll].  Neither of those two plugins are in SeaMonkey's
plugins folder.

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On 13.04.2008 23:51, CET - what odd quirk of fate caused  jetjock to 
generate the following:? :
> jetjock wrote:
>
>   
>> When I installed the latest version of Flash player about a month ago,

>> the check mark in "Flash" on the Prefs Toolbar was removed. 
When I 
>> would click on it, I was told that no Flash Player plugin was found.  
>> Since Flash videos still played OK I didn't worry much about it.  Now,

>> suddenly, I'm being told I need to get the latest Flash Player and 
>> videos won't play.  I noticed that "About Plugins" said that
Flash 9.0 
>> r124 was installed and ok but there was no NPSWF32.dll file in the 
>> Plugins folder of Mozilla.  Found it in the System 32 folder of 
>> Windows and dragged a copy into the Plugins folder of Moz.  Now I have

>> the check mark back but videos still won't play.  I'm stumped!  :-(
>>
>>     
> Just a P.S.  Movies play fine in Internet Exploder!!
>
>   

you'll probably need to find and copy the flash-plugin.dll  ( 
NPSWF32.DLL ) from the adobe installation location (here, it's at; 
C:\windows\system32\macromed\flash ) into your FF plugins folder (sorry 
- you'll have to search for yours, as it may be a personalized installation)
It seems that the Adobe d/l doesn't install into FF, as was once the case...

David E. Ross wrote:
> On 4/14/2008 2:35 AM, squaredancer wrote:
>> On 13.04.2008 23:51, CET - what odd quirk of fate caused  jetjock to
>> generate the following:? :
>>> jetjock wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> When I installed the latest version of Flash player about a
month ago,
>>>> the check mark in "Flash" on the Prefs Toolbar was
removed.  When I
>>>> would click on it, I was told that no Flash Player plugin was
found.
>>>> Since Flash videos still played OK I didn't worry much about
it.  Now,
>>>> suddenly, I'm being told I need to get the latest Flash Player
and
>>>> videos won't play.  I noticed that "About Plugins"
said that Flash 9.0
>>>> r124 was installed and ok but there was no NPSWF32.dll file in
the
>>>> Plugins folder of Mozilla.  Found it in the System 32 folder
of
>>>> Windows and dragged a copy into the Plugins folder of Moz.  Now
I have
>>>> the check mark back but videos still won't play.  I'm stumped! 
:-(
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Just a P.S.  Movies play fine in Internet Exploder!!
>>>
>>>
>> you'll probably need to find and copy the flash-plugin.dll  (
>> NPSWF32.DLL ) from the adobe installation location (here, it's at;
>> C:\windows\system32\macromed\flash ) into your FF plugins folder
(sorry
>> - you'll have to search for yours, as it may be a personalized
installation)
>> It seems that the Adobe d/l doesn't install into FF, as was once the
case...
>>
>> reg
>
> Hmmm.  SeaMonkey works okay using the Flash plugin that's in
> [C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\NPSWF32.dll] without moving
> NPSWF32.dll to SeaMonkey's own plugins folder.  The same is true of
> Java, for which the plugin is at [C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_05
> \bin\npjava11.dll].  Neither of those two plugins are in SeaMonkey's
> plugins folder.
>
 From my experiments with Tbird trunk, I had no problem using the new flash
plugin in it's c:\windows...flash folder.

To see the exact path to the actual plugin being used, set the following pref:
plugin.expose_full_path to 'true'  (it's false by default)
about:plugins will then show which plugin it's trying to use.

If you move the plugin into the plugins folder, it will then be prioritized in
the scan.
In other words, it will take precedance over other plugins with similar mime
settings.

This is useful if you have multiple plugins for the same mime type.