Question
Issue with Firefox & Flash Player Installation
This topic has probably already been brought up but I need
some help, please! I can't seem to find anything that matches
exactly what I'm going though here.
Yesterday I did a clean install of Vista. (I had some missing .dll files for some reason). I re-installed Firefox, and went through with all the Windows updates, etc. and everything has been fine. Today, I have been trying to install Flash Player through Firefox (Flash player is working fine on IE). It goes through the motion of downloading it from the Adobe site, and it also states that the download is complete, but when I go to a website such as Facebook, it's giving me a couple of messages. The actual site's message is: "Flash Player upgrade required. You must download and install the latest version of the Adobe Flash Player to view this content." as well as I get the yellow bar up top from Firefox saying, "Additional plugins are required to display all the media on this page" and has a button to click saying "Install missing plugins". When I click on either this button or the "Download Flash" button on the actual webpage, again, it goes through the motion of downloading it, but that's as far as it goes. In my "downloads" window, it shows a bunch of times that I had downloaded the flash player, but it doesn't even give me the option to open the file.
Up until yesterday, I did in fact have flash on Firefox.
Another thing I noticed, was when I re-installed Firefox, the download scheme is a little different (I don't have the download box at the bottom of the window anymore and I'm not sure why or if this is just a new version of Firefox that I didn't have before.) In any event, when I would save the flash player during the download, I tried a couple of different locations (desktop and another location in C drive) but when I go to those locations, there is nothing there.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Carla
Yesterday I did a clean install of Vista. (I had some missing .dll files for some reason). I re-installed Firefox, and went through with all the Windows updates, etc. and everything has been fine. Today, I have been trying to install Flash Player through Firefox (Flash player is working fine on IE). It goes through the motion of downloading it from the Adobe site, and it also states that the download is complete, but when I go to a website such as Facebook, it's giving me a couple of messages. The actual site's message is: "Flash Player upgrade required. You must download and install the latest version of the Adobe Flash Player to view this content." as well as I get the yellow bar up top from Firefox saying, "Additional plugins are required to display all the media on this page" and has a button to click saying "Install missing plugins". When I click on either this button or the "Download Flash" button on the actual webpage, again, it goes through the motion of downloading it, but that's as far as it goes. In my "downloads" window, it shows a bunch of times that I had downloaded the flash player, but it doesn't even give me the option to open the file.
Up until yesterday, I did in fact have flash on Firefox.
Another thing I noticed, was when I re-installed Firefox, the download scheme is a little different (I don't have the download box at the bottom of the window anymore and I'm not sure why or if this is just a new version of Firefox that I didn't have before.) In any event, when I would save the flash player during the download, I tried a couple of different locations (desktop and another location in C drive) but when I go to those locations, there is nothing there.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Carla
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