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Anonymous
March 25, 2017
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Flash not working on 32 bit XP

  • March 25, 2017
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Looking at Twitter it appears that Flash is not working.  I get this media cannot be displayed.  I have installed the latest Flash.  I use Firefox 52.0.1.  This does not work on "Opera" either.  So I tried it on my Linux machine.  All was well.  Then I reinstalled Chrome knowing that they don't do upgrades to XP.  Things worked well on Chrome.  It "seems" like perhaps 32 bit XP Flash isn't working or something.

Ideas?

Thanks

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AMID_EVIL
AMID_EVIL
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March 31, 2017

Install Windows 10 / Fedora GNU/Linux

_maria_
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_maria_Community Manager
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March 27, 2017

Please provide the following information:

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Anonymous
March 27, 2017

Sky News crew nearly hit by roadside bomb in Iraq | On Air Videos | Fox News + a personal set of "follows" on Twitter - virtually ANY video.

Opera version

36.0.2130.65

Firefox reports v 25x but Opera reports v 21x.  I clicked the upgrade button and an installation failure occurred 3 times.  Is 64 bit or Win 7 required?  I "have" Opera but do not use it.  Chrome works fine.  HUH?

jeromiec83223024
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jeromiec83223024Community Manager
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March 27, 2017

Our installers are only going to work (at least without throwing a signature failure) on WinXP SP3, because previous versions lacked support for SHA-256, which is required for signing software on Windows at this point.

There are actually a lot of Flash Players.  It looks like a single product, but we have to target the browser's plug-in interface, and the operating system (at least at major inflection points, like Windows 8+).  Firefox uses the NPAPI variant of Flash Player, Internet Explorer uses the ActiveX variant, and Chrome uses the PPAPI version that's built in as a component to Chrome.

Opera is interesting, in that modern versions are probably using the PPAPI variant of Flash Player, which would be a separate download and install.  Either Opera's internals are confused, or you need to download an updated copy of the appropriate Flash Player.  You should just be able to launch Opera, and go here: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/.  We look at the User-Agent string that your browser sends with the request, and serve up the appropriate download.

If installing the prescribed Flash Player download doesn't resolve the old version in Opera, the quickest solution might be to just do a quick uninstall/reinstall of Opera.. but I can probably come up with something more surgical if you get to that point.

Thanks!

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