I've been using portable FF 3.6 since it was first released, running on Vista Home Premium, and all plugins and add-ons worked correctly.
But a couple of days ago I upgraded my OS to Windows 7 Home Premium, clean install (reformatted and started over). Now the Flash plugin doesn't appear to work, although NPSWF32.dll is there in the Data\Plugins folder.
I have not reinstalled Flash yet locally--I thought at first I wouldn't need to because I thought it was bundled with some other software. But to verify, I searched the hard drive for that dll and it's not there.
All this seems to indicate that my portable FF has not been using the Plugins dll after all, but the local Flash instead. If so, why?
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Naturally, as soon as I posted that, I went to another site that uses Flash and it works. So only some sites don't work, and it is using the plugin.
So maybe it's not a portable FF/plugin issue after all. Sorry.
Cheers!
---Fox
https://portableapps.com/node/21382#comment-132676
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That tells me the plugin is up-to-date:
File: F:\PortableApps\FirefoxPortable\Data\plugins\NPSWF32.dll
Version: 10.0.22.87
Shockwave Flash 10.0 r22
Flash is backward compatible, though, right, so websites created under older versions should still run in the new? And I haven't had trouble with these sites before the OS upgrade. I'm bumfuzzled.
But thanks for reminding me of about:config!I always forget about it and forget how useful it is.
Another strangeness is that I did search the hard drive for the Flash dll and it came up empty... but near the top of the topic you linked me to, there's the Adobe Shockwave and Flash test pages. Tested my hard drive and Flash is in fact installed.
Not sure what that's all about. In the other Windows versions I've used, Search wouldn't return hidden or system files unless they're set up to be viewable. Mine are all viewable.
Guess I have a few things to figure out.
Cheers!
---Fox
Its always nice to know what's under the hood. That's not to say that it is all understood!
Glad I could point you in the right direction, but sorry it wasn't the whole answer you needed.
Although I'm use a USB stick or USB hard drive often, right now I'm running my PortableApps on my local hard drive. Here's the Flash section from my about:plugins (note version number and that it lives inside my profile folder so that it gets backed up nightly):
Shockwave Flash File: C:\Documents and Settings\Jim\PortableApps\FirefoxPortable\Data \profile\plugins\NPSWF32.dll Version: 10.0.32.18 Shockwave Flash 10.0 r32 MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled application/x-shockwave-flash Adobe Flash movie swf Yes application/futuresplash FutureSplash movie spl Yesneutron1132 (at) usa (dot) com
the profile folder gets backed up. Is that something FF does automatically or is that something you set up?
But it makes sense. I'll go do that... right after I get the latest versions.
Cheers!
---Fox
I don't believe Firefox backs up your profile. He's probably got Toucan or some other backup program doing it.
"The question I would like to know, is the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. All we know about it is that the Answer is Forty-two, which is a little aggravating."
I've got a script set up in Toucan that backs up three things I consider important:
It keeps seven versions of the backup files before it dumps the oldest one. I run it almost every night.
And if you are interested, here's the script:
BTW, BACKUPS is an environment variable that I have set on my computer that points to a particular directory.
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