Adobe flash

[Jaytee]

Hi All,
My brothers computer keeps refusing to play flash videos in all three browsers he has. Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.
I have followed a couple of how to's so completely removing Adobe flash from the machine and "clean" installing. However it only works one time then on restart it prompts for a download of Adobe flash. Just a little frustrating, if anyone can help please....

[craisin]

In my experience 3 browsers is over the top

When i had the same problem installing flash I rang my mate and he said piece of cake close the browser before you install.

That was with IE and firefox on XP

I use firefox beta

[Murf]

There are two different Adobe flash players. One is for IE only. The other is for all other browsers (Firefox, Chrome, etc.).

The Flash player for IE is an ActiveX control, which is not the preferred format for plugins for Mozilla et al.

The later versions of Chrome already include Flash (from version 5.0.375 onwards)

Firefox
IE

You need to install separately. On the page for IE select Other Browsers.

[Jaytee]

Originally Posted by Murf

There are two different Adobe flash players. One is for IE only. The other is for all other browsers (Firefox, Chrome, etc.).

The Flash player for IE is an ActiveX control, which is not the preferred format for plugins for Mozilla et al.

The later versions of Chrome already include Flash (from version 5.0.375 onwards)

Firefox
IE

You need to install separately. On the page for IE select Other Browsers.

Murf,
I did the install as you suggested but still no good on any of the browsers after a restart. All browsers request that I download the flashplayer.

[Murf]

I would use the uninstaller available HERE, then try a reinstall doing one at a time.

[Jaytee]

Originally Posted by Murf

I would use the uninstaller available HERE, then try a reinstall doing one at a time.

O.K, I got a partial win. with Google chrome the flash player settings have stuck but IE and Firefox just worked the one time then quit working after a reboot.
Kinda Strange huh?

[Murf]

Open up Firefox and in the address bar type the following;

about:config

then in the filter box enter browser.sessionstore.interval

The default value is 10000, which is the number of milliseconds between snapshots. Setting the number to 120000 lengthens the period to two minutes

Close restart and see if it works.

Also Realplayer can cause this problem, uninstall it, read about it HERE

[Jaytee]

Realplayer is not installed.
I tried those settings at 12000 and 120000 without any success if I install the flash play it will work one time in IE or Firefox then will require to be done again on re-boot

[Jaytee]

I just raing a local "teckie". He claims that the latest version of adobe flash is faulted. His reccomendation was to either go back a version or wait for the next update...