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Firefox Portable and Adding the Flash Player Plugin/Addon/extension Submitted by Tim Clark on May 31, 2008 - 2:47pm
Firefox Portable and the Flash Player ===================== http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/xpi/current/flashplayer... BUT... change the extension of the download to flashplayer-win.xpi.ZIP Unzip it, and there you go, copy the files needed, and you have Flash for FFP Tim
Tim Just ran across this article while looking up information for a user with Plugin problems: Portable Firefox and the Flash Player The one way I differ with the author is I recommend: X:\path\FirefoxPortable\Data\plugins while he recommands: Mine works for me his works for him, whatcha gonna say I think this may become my standard reply to FFP and Flash Questions. [You have all updated to the latest version haven't you???] ( categories: )
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It
might be a good idea if someone with a registration for CNet posted your minor correction Tim as the plugin will be deleted during and upgrade otherwise.
'...and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard...' JFK
No
The Firefox plugins directory is maintained and will continue to be. The installer even ignores its size when calculating install size.
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Really?
I always thought the whole folder (app) was deleted, good thinking John
'...and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard...' JFK
06/25/08
Bump of topic to indicate NEW, BETTER, EASIER way of doing this [i.e. of installing Adobe / Macromedia Flash into FireFox Portable.
Tim
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what about other ...
plugins? I mean, I can't think of any off hand right now, but for future reference, are there any other options to do for popular plugins? Like I know for Facebook, the Photo Uploader asks for something which doesn't show up, while on IE I just have to activate the ActiveX module.
Do the other media plugins go there too? Should I put it there manually?
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This was my next question about firefox
Thanks for posting this information as I have been having trouble getting the flash
player working with Firefox 3. I have tried using the ..current/flashplayer-win.xpi
without changing it to a zip file and couldn't get the flash player to work on sites
like Abbey Road Studios which is a huge bummer.
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real player?
Can your process for extracting files from Flash be used with other plug-ins, like say real player?
Hmmm... Technically this
Hmmm...
Technically this should work with K-Meleon Portable then also correct? I'm going to test it out and see...
K-Meleon Portable too!
Sweet! It works with K-Meleon also! Very nice!
flashplayer-win.xpi.ZIP
This worked like a charm and I didn't have any problems with getting flash player
to work after restarting the browser. Thanks for the help on this issue
Musicologist, Beatlelogist,Internet Guru, Firefox Supporter and I'm searching for a 'backdoor' to break into the W.O.P.R.(War Operation Plan Response)computer somewhere on the internet.
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Another Thanks
Just wanted to add another thanks for this! I tried using the link in the FAQ, and it would claim to install, and then nothing. Doing this worked just fine!
Thanx Tim
Thanx Tim
This is the only way that I know of to get Flash on your Firefox and you don't even have to install the flash application on your PC. I realised this on your method: [x]:\PATH\PORTABLE\FirefoxPortable\Data\Plugins
Just don't know it the other method (X:\path\FirefoxPortable\App\firefox\plugins) works without installing the application as well.
Thanks again
Would it hurt to
have the necessary files in both Plugins locations?
I wouldn't do it myself
I wouldn't do it myself, as to harm, I don't know.
I would "guess" that FF would have some kind of path hierarchy which would give one predominance over the other so that the one which was "lower" would be ignored.
It may become a moot point in the future as I think John is considering just using the default ...FirefoxPortable\App\firefox\plugins .
As a norm I do not think that having multiply copies of files for one program all over the place it a good thing. It makes support kind of cumbersome.
Just my .02
Tim
"freenode, it's Not as Free as it used to be, Free as in Freedom"
Nagging problem solved
I installed the plugin according to Tim's instruction and it worked right away with Firefox Portable 3.0.1.
It solved the problem of not being able to play Flash enables sites with my 'closed' computer.
Thanks a lot Tim
Jacoppy
jacoppy
quick note, this also works
quick note, this also works for Google Chrome/Chromium. do the same thing, but copy the files to [chrome dir]\plugins .
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Real Player?
I have successfully completed the process for flash. Now, was it ever confirmed that this method would be successful for Real Player as well?
No
Real Player is a full program that has to be installed on the local machine. The Firefox plugin for it only links to that.
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Thanks....
Thanks for the quick reply John.
Mark
Thanks
Thanks
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I just hate this
i hater the fact that the version of flash player in the FFP will not work its annoying. it works on my home comp only cause it is installed on the harddrive i think.
will this actually work ( i will give it a try).
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Even if
it still is in early development, did you try this?
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re: flash plugin in version 3.0.3
I never noticed right away when I last updated my Portable FireFox, but last week it wouldn't play videos in YouTube.....I tried every suggestions on this web site and others but it refused to install a new flash player....even downloaded flash player 11 from adobe to my PC....no luck....
I ain't no geek but I looked in the APP folder...then FireFox folder ..then plug-in folder.......then comparing the contents of that folder with the one in an older version of FireFox...(I always keep several old working versions of all applications I have on CDR-W )....and found several files were missing in my usb flash drive....probably lost them during the upgrade????I had Flash version 9.0r16 before the upgrade.
After backing up what I already had on my flash drive...I copied all the missing files to that folder....and bingo everything works ...plus Portable Firefox also sees Flash player 11 on my PC......
I see from looking for a solution before that my problem was quite common......hope this helps someone
Portable Firefox 3.0.11 and the Flash Player
I used Tim's method on earlier versions of Firefox with great success. Thanks!
The newest version is giving me problems though.
Portable Firefox 3.0.11 has 3 plugin folders:
1. X:\FirefoxPortable\App\DefaultData\plugins
2. X:\FirefoxPortable\Data\plugins
3. X:\FirefoxPortable\App\Firefox\plugins
The first 2 folders contain the README text file that says you should put your flash plugins here. Place Firefox plugins in this directory (Flash, Shockwave, etc)
The 3rd folder contains a 'npnul32.dll' file but no README. I assume this means the flash files shouldn't go here.
I put the 'flashplayer.xpt' and 'NPSWF32.dll' in each of the first 2 folders (to be safe) but it doesn't work. I still get a message from Live365.com telling me that it can't find the Flash plugin, would I like to upgrade to version 9, sending me to Adobe hell, etc.
Any ideas?
Thanks fz5pxs
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