Enable Flash Player in Windows 8.1 & IE 11

[stuartc14158025]

OS = Windows 8.1

Browser = IE 11

Flash Player Version preinstalled with Windows 8

Cannot enable Flash Player. Have checked that it is enabled in Add-ons Manager and that ActiveX is off, but still registers as disabled.

[jeromiec83223024 · Accepted solution]

First, confirm that ActiveX Filtering is configured to allow Flash content:

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/867968

Internet Explorer 11 introduces a number of changes both to how the browser identifies itself to remote web servers, and to how it processes JavaScript intended to target behaviors specific to Internet Explorer. Unfortunately, this means that content on some sites will be broken until the content provider changes their site to conform to the new development approach required by modern versions of IE.

You can try to work around these issues by using Compatibility View:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/internet-explorer/use-compatibility-view#ie=ie-11

If that is too inconvenient, using Google Chrome may be a preferable alternative.

[stuartc14158025]

Thanks Jeromie, I used to use Mozilla Firefox for many years and had no problems with it. For some reason in the past I had to revert back to IE. Perhaps I will try Google Chrome and see how that goes.

[jeromiec83223024]

Yeah, there are some stability problems with Flash in Firefox that are specific to Win8.1.  I think you'll have a better experience in the short-term on Chrome.  We're working with Mozilla to address some of the intractable stability issues that we're currently facing, but I think we're going to make progress on those over the course of several months -- there's no low-hanging fruit there.