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How to make Firefox use portable flash player from Common Files folder?

I have these two files from portable flash player put in CommonFiles/Plugins:

NPSWF32.dll
nppdf32.dll

How to make Firefox locate and use them?

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Wrong Place

They need to be in PortableApps\CommonFiles\Flash\files

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I put the files in the

I put the files in the suggested location but still it doesn't work.

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Is firefox in PortableApps\FirefoxPortable and ALL the Flash files (not just those two) are placed within PortableApps\CommonFiles\Flash\files?

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Which other flash files must

Which other flash files must be put there besides these two?

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Don't Know

I don't know offhand. Flash changes a bit with each release. I haven't tested it in quite a while. I don't make use of the feature myself as Flash is installed and automatically updated on every PC I use. I think you may have to put the files there and then set Firefox not to use the Flash container or something similar (the flash container is an EXE file).

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I copy all flash files that

I copy all flash files that were in %SystemRoot%\System32\Macromed\Flash to PortableApps\CommonFiles\Flash, but still doesn't work.

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Have you tried them in FirefoxPortable\Data\plugins and FirefoxPortable\App\Firefox\plugins? FF may have changed something so our alternate location doesn't work. Also, do you have any extensions that could be interfering?

BTW - There should be an OCX file in there somewhere. On my 64-bit machine, the local version of Firefox currently utilizes FlashUtil64_12_0_0_77_Plugin.exe.

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I tried the two new locations

I tried the two new locations and it still not working. But i found portable version of Firefox from another site which is able to use the flash files from PortableApps\CommonFiles\Plugins and i think i will use the other Firefox because i can't make this to work with portable flash files.

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