Comments on: Flash Player Installation Woes

By: rob

rob — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:31:56 +0000

I just had this same problem with Flex Builder 3 Beta 2. No Flash content was able to be displayed in Firefox or Safari. Automatic re-installation of the plug-ins failed as did manual. So I just ran ‘Repair Disk Permissions’ and re-installed the plug-in, now everything works great.

By: McHoyt

McHoyt — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:15:23 +0000

I am so glad you made the comment about Sliverlight being sarcastic! There is so much misinformation about Silverlight out there that it would be a bummer if people actually started thinking it was a viable alternative to flash. It doesn’t come close (yet.)

I am a Flash designer/developer and I develop in C# under ASP.NET and SharePoint 2007. I made the same mistake thinking that Silverlight was going to be a “flash-killer.” All I can say is that Flash and Adobe should not loose any sleep over that issue.

For those of you still wondering about this, try and build functionality inside Silver light to do something like marshal user information back and forth dynamically to and from a web server. You will soon learn that Silverlight is a fun presentation tool but once you get past the 3D XAML and eyecandy, there is not much substance.

By: nwebb.co.uk » Blog Archive » FlexBuilder, FireFox and NPSWF32.dll

nwebb.co.uk » Blog Archive » FlexBuilder, FireFox and NPSWF32.dll — Mon, 28 May 2007 07:52:17 +0000

[...] It appears NPSWF32.dll was installed here C:WINDOWSsystem32MacromedFlash so I copied the .dll over to the correct Firefox plugins directory. - an easy fix in this case. I have also read about other problems with installation of the .dll on both Mac and Windows (see comments). [...]

By: aral

aral — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:58:43 +0000

I guess sarcasm (porting to Silverlight) doesn’t come across well always on the web

By: Greg Ferrell

Greg Ferrell — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 18:52:27 +0000

It isn’t that fixing a Mac is so complicated. It is that sometimes the installers goof. I have had similar troubles with windows machines that took way longer to fix than what you had to go through.

Glad to know there is a documented solution, and they (according to Mr. Williams here) are going to fix the installer.

However, when I installed Flex 2.0 on my Mac, I had no such troubles.

Porting everything to Silverlight? Pssh. I’ll stick with Adobe thank you very much.

Thanks for posting the solution in case someone else runs into this.

By: Michael Williams

Michael Williams — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:20:10 +0000

Aral,
This is a known issue, and you have found the correct technote to resolve the issue. This stems from installing the browser as one user, and then installing the player as another user. I am the engineer responsible for these installers and I am personally working on a fix that should be available in the near future.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:49:14 +0000

Wow, sounds like this might have been one of the very rare occasions when running ‘repair permissions’ might have actually worked!

By: Kris

Kris — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:52:53 +0000

WOW, who would have guessed fixing a Mac when it goes bad is so complicated. ;-).

And about SilverLight, I tried their demos. Not impressive. Not impressive at all.

By: Morten Reinholdt

Morten Reinholdt — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:10:10 +0000

I had the same problem today when updating the flashdebugger for firefox on windows, the problem was that the installer installed the NPSWF32.dll file in the wrong directory to fix this I just copyed and pasted the file into “Mozilla Firefox\plugins” and everything was running again
just strange

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:00:06 +0000

I had this problem when installing Apollo, something to do with the flash debugger.

I had to wipe flash and all it’s setting then start over by getting the player and installer, which isn’t too easy to fine…. sigh