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Installing latest Flash 10.1 in Firefox 3.0.19 on XP/32-bit

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June 22, 2010
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After uninstalling the previous version of Flash I found that the new Flash plugin would not install. I could download a file gp.xpi, but clicking it gave a message like "application unknown". I found that I had to manually select Firefox as the application to open the file gp.xpi in order to install the plugin. I've had the same trouble previously with Flash. I think that the instructions could be improved to cover this case. (Also it's not easy to find the article http://www.adobe.com/products/reader/dlm/firefox_steps.htmlhttp://www.adobe.com/products/reader/dlm/firefox_steps.htmlhttp://www.adobe.com/products/reader/dlm/firefox_steps.html though this may not be related to my problem.)

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Legend

Can you give us the correct link; the link you posted just redirects to the Adobe Reader page.

Also, why not use the normal executable Flash Player installer for Firefox (http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player.exe)?

nzkiwiAuthor

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The links above (copy and paste) are

http://www.adobe.com/products/reader/dlm/firefox_steps.html

and

http://www.adobe.com/ products/reader/dlm/firefox_steps.htmlhttp://www.adobe.com/products/reader/dlm/f irefox_steps.html

> why not use the normal executable Flash Player installer for Firefox

I looked but could not find it.

All the "Install Flash player" pages should clearly say:

"You probably will need to use this uninstaller to uninstall

the old version first" and specify the link to the uninstaller.

Firefox users should be shown a link to the executable

you mention (or an explanation like mine of what to do

if they can't install the plugin) because otherwise they

will probably not find the executable and will not know

what to do.

nzkiwiAuthor

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Sorry, the links are broken.

Somewhere I found instructions for setting

"permit install of plugin from current URL domain"

on Firefox, but I can't find it anymore.