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January 14, 2010
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Installing Adobe Flash Player 10.0.42 Plugin for Firefox 3.5.7

  • January 14, 2010
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I currently have Firefox 3.5.7 installed and am trying to access a site that requires the current version of Adobe Flash Player (10.0.42). When I download and install it, the website still doesn't recognize flash player being installed.

I go to Adobe.com, make sure I am downloading the one for WinXP/Firefox and install it, then it says that it is successfully installed. However, when I try to access the site, and it says that the current version of flash player is not installed, with a link to the adobe site to download the latest version (which I already did).

I have tried uninstalling the flash player, from both Windows and Adobe's uninstaller, and reinstalling with no success. I have even tried uninstalling/reinstalling Firefox, still nothing. For fun, I tried updating IE, and it works fine, but I REALLY don't like IE.

Another note: when I uninstall Flash Player, it doesn't remove it from my machine (add/remove program list), even when Windows asks, "Adobe ... is already uninstalled, would you like to remove it from the list?" Additionally, when I go to Adobe's Flash Player version tester site, it reports that IE is running version 10.0.42, but when I access it with FF, it shows a link to download the latest Adobe FP.

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    January 16, 2010

    Hi Melon00, normally I don't comment on a thread that someone else is helping on, but the comment you made about using FF and going to the test site and it shows a link to download the latest Adobe FP, go ahead and do it. The test site is detecting that the plugin for the FF browser is not installed. That is my opinion. It just happened to me a couple of days ago. Each browser needs their own. IE uses an ActiveX, FF uses a plugin. Every website is looking for that Control and they want the latest version and they also want the latest version of Java. When you uninstall, you are correct it doesn't remove it from Add/Remove, it removes from the browser add ons. FP is not a program per se but a browser add on and that is where it works.

    That's all:-)

    eidnolb

    _maria_
    Community Manager
    Community Manager
    January 14, 2010

    Please post the URL to the website that is not recognizing Flash Player 10.0.42 is installed in Firefox?

    When you navigate to this site using IE (with Flash Player 10.0.42) does it recognize Flash Player is installed or no?

    Thank you in advance.

    Melon00Author
    Participant
    January 14, 2010

    Thanks for the quick reply; here is the link:

    http://www.bankrate.com/funnel/graph/Default.aspx?cat=2&ids=10,10&state=IA&d=30&t=MSLine&eco=-1

    To answer your question, yes it works in IE, but not Firefox.

    pwillener
    Legend
    August 12, 2013

    Despite the fact that  I updated  flashplayer I still can't see my [spammy link removed] runing correcly, is that my web-browser issue? what should I do?


    Are you just posting to link your website all over the forums?  First you post in the Adobe Reader forum, with links that contain no PDF at all; now you post in the Flash Player forum with links that do not contain any Flash content!

    P.S. this topic is 3½ years old; there is really no need to resurrect such old topics!