- #Install adobe flash player for firefox .dll#
- #Install adobe flash player for firefox update#
- #Install adobe flash player for firefox upgrade#
- #Install adobe flash player for firefox portable#
- #Install adobe flash player for firefox software#
#Install adobe flash player for firefox portable#
Sure enough, it found three instances of the Firefox plug-in version of the Flash player.Ī portable version of Firefox on the M disk was using Flash version 9.0.47,Īnother portable version of Firefox on the Z disk was using Flash version 9.0.45 (the Adobe Flash tester page confirmed this). To find out where, I ran a Secunia "thorough system inspection," something I suggested at the end of my Nonetheless picking it up from somewhere. Nice work, guys.īut, if the NPSWF32.dll file was not in it's official folder, Firefox was Both the Adobe uninstaller and Secunia had failed to locate the copy of the Flash player that Firefox was using. Lo and behold, Firefox was able to display the Flash-based ads. Sure enough, when I checked, there was no NPSWF32.dll file inīut I figured the acid test was to visit a Web site that uses Flash, so Iīrowsed around a bit. My first guess was to believe Secunia since all they do is look for files in folders, a simple process that shouldn't break.
#Install adobe flash player for firefox software#
I got a second opinion from the Secunia Software Inspector: it said there was no plug-in version of Flash. Still, the Adobe tester page reported that Firefox was using the old version. I cleared the Firefox cache, rebooted and tested again. The ActiveX version for Internet Explorer was successfully removed, but the Firefox plug-in version remained. I dutifully ran the Adobe Flash uninstaller (the version from December 3, 2007) and then went back to the tester page to see what it had done. When I approached the machine this morning, the Flash tester page showed that Firefox was running the old version 9.0.47* but Internet Explorer 6 was running the latest version 9.0.115. I mentioned yesterday that Adobe has what I refer to as a "tester" page for Flash, a Web page that displays the currently installed version of the Flash player. The problematic machine was running the latest version of Firefox (2.0.0.11) and Windows XP with all bug fixes applied.
So if anything similar happens to you, you may find a helpful tip below. One computer in particular desperately resisted being updated to the latest
The problems described below were only with the Firefox plug-in version. As you can see, both files normally reside in
#Install adobe flash player for firefox .dll#
dll file at the bottom is the plug-in version. You can see this is the screenshot above from the Secunia Software Inspector, which shows both versions of the latest Flash player. The player comes packaged as an ActiveX control ("control" is nerd talk for "program") for IE and as a "plug-in" for Firefox.
#Install adobe flash player for firefox upgrade#
IE ActiveX version of the Flash player (top) and the Firefox plug-in versionĮven in the best of times, the Flash player is particularly annoying to upgrade because it has to be done twice, once for Internet Explorer and then again for Firefox. Screenshot from the Secunia Software Inspector showing both the
#Install adobe flash player for firefox update#
Unfortunately the bugs in Flash extend beyond the player itself, as I learned the hard way while trying to update a handful of machines to the latest version. Simply viewing a Web page can infect your machine, so removing the old buggy versions of Flash is important.
Those old versions were flagged by Secunia because they had security vulnerabilities (a nice word for bug, which is itself, a nice word for a mistake by a programmer).Īs I blogged about yesterday, this is now an important issue because the latest version of theįlash player fixes nine bugs, some of them critical (Adobe's term, not mine). The first time I ran the Secunia Software Inspector I almost fell off my chair at the huge list of old versions of the Flash player that were hanging around. Instead, Adobe has an uninstaller for the Flash player.Īnd why do I bring up removing old versions in the first place?īecause the Flash installer has never removed older
The first three machines I tried this on resulted in three different outcomes, and the software was not removed on any of the machines. That is, trying to remove the currently installed version via the Windows XP Control Panel Add/Remove applet is a waste of time. But no.įor one, the Flash player does not play well with the other kids in the sandbox. Installing a new version of software should be trivial thing-especially for popular software such as the Adobe Systems' Flash player, which is used by millions of people every day.
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