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    Flash Player Help

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by raiderlax27, Jul 31, 2006.

  1. raiderlax27

    raiderlax27 Notebook Consultant

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    I cant read flash pages like vikings.com it says i need flash 7 or newer, i have tried to update and it works fine on IE but not firefox, i hate IE so i need to get flash to work on firefox and cant figure out why it wont work.

    EDIT: flash is instaled and works on ever website except the vikings hopepage. if i type in a link to a page on vikings.com that uses flash on the page it will work, but if i try to go to vikings.com it says i dont have flash. why does vikings.com not reconize that i have flash?????

    can someone go to vikings.com under firefox and make sure the site isnt just having an error, cause it works fine with everthing else
     
    raiderlax27, Jul 31, 2006
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    teamkillahilla Notebook Evangelist

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    just did, using firefox and flash8.. no problem
     
    teamkillahilla, Jul 31, 2006
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    raiderlax27 Notebook Consultant

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    this doesnt make any sense, how can it work on every page except for this home page???
     
    raiderlax27, Aug 1, 2006
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    my guess is that their flash detection system is not working correctly..
    can you upgrade to flash 8? should work then
     
    teamkillahilla, Aug 1, 2006
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    i have the newest flash
     
    raiderlax27, Aug 1, 2006
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    sliede02 Newbie

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    I have the same problem, I cannot get to vikings.com. I also have the newest version of flash, and using firefox.
     
    sliede02, Aug 7, 2006
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    do you have scripting disabled?
     
    drumfu, Aug 7, 2006
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    Flash 7 and 8 would work, the newest Flash 9 doesn't. It's their website's problem. You can either install Flash 7 or 8 or send the webmaster of vikings.com an e-mail about the problem.
     
    jimc, Aug 8, 2006
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    anarky Notebook Geek

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    Yeah, this is a big problem that many people are affected by. It's with the new Flash 9 and Firefox, but sometimes even with IE. Certain Flash pages will cause the browser to crash, and there's no fix. Just have to wait until a) the website changes code or b) a new version of Flash is released.

    I think.
     
    anarky, Aug 9, 2006
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    mbushnaq00 Notebook Evangelist

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    I had this problem a while ago, and took me some time to discover the source of the problem. Well if u r using RegScrubXP or anyother registery cleaners, then u might need to uncheck the "flash" items on the list because they remove some flash files needed to run in the browser. To solve this problem, go to C:\WINDOWS > System32 > Macromed > Flash > Click on UninstFl. This will uninstall Adobe Flash. Now go to any website that has a flash content, and Internet Explorer will notify u that a Plugin is required to run the content, click on the yellow bar, then a Adobe Flash Player Installer will pop-up, finally click Install. This will make all of the flash websites work.
     
    mbushnaq00, Aug 10, 2006
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