I'm using the portable version which is way improved on the ad-hockery of past efforts so am very pleased but no matter which flash enabled website I traverse it never prompts me to download.
Do I need the regular version instead?
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Does your copy of Opera Portable already have the most up-to-date version of Flash?
If you go to the following page on the Adobe site it will tell you your current Flash version and the the most up-to-date version available (in the table below the Flash test & your version info)
http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/
It is/was a fresh install.
Interestingly I went to the adobe site and downloaded the updater.
Low and behold it knew both Seakmonkey & Opera were running, and asked me to close both programs.
When I closed them, somehow the updater knew they were portable?
In any case I thought it was against the EULA to update (non register) portable applications but maybe a qualified answer is needed since now Opera is leading the way for supposed automatic extensions plugins I'm hoping it will extend to portable installs.
Danke
What EULA prevents portable applications from being able to register it self?
The flash installer can not tell if the version of Opera you're using is a portable version. Even our own PortableApps.com Installer can't do that.
do we need to install Flash into Opera portable, or does it get it off the computer it's running on? (or does it come with Flash already installed in Opera?)
I just put a clean install of Opera portable onto an empty USB Flash drive and went to the Adobe Flash Player 'check your version' page (http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/) and it show that my new install of Opera portable has the current version.
I know that this computer has the most recent version of flash installed for IE 8, but I have to manually update Flash for my copy of Firefox portable.
its all so curious
Browsers can use the local install if provided.
The reason why people want have the flash install portable as well, is that some computers may not have flash at all on them and others may have an old version.
Installing flash from the adobe site will provide local installation, the portable needs to be done from there then by copying the relevant files to the portable plugin directory. You can not install flash to a portable browser from the adobe site directly any more.
To check if it works, you have to uninstall the flash on the local machine and try the flash check site then.
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
When I install or try to install it in the browser (portable) it downloads it but says "install failed".
Is this due to proprietary interests or something wrong with the PAF?
from my experience the install of the flash does fail more often with the current live installer from adobe.
When you install with the portable browser, the flash is installed to the local machine. There is currently no direct way to install flash 'to a portable browser'.
In general flash is installed to local browser installation and then from the the relevant files are copy/paste to the plugin folder in the portable browser.
Just go to adobe website, with any browser, then select on the flash site 'other browsers' version and the you can download a file called install_flash_player.exe.
You can run this file when all browsers are closed and from now you will have local install for opera and firefox etc.
You may find the files under ..system32\macromed\flash
So it is no need for trying to install it with the portable browser, adobe will not install anything to the portable drive this way.
If your opera meets a host computer where flash is installed, then it can use it, but if you need really portable flash too, you have to copy the files to the plugin folder of the portable opera.
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
find the file "NPSWF32.dll" where it was installed locally and copy it to
Opera/program/plugins/
copy any and all various plugins in that folder. I've been doing that for many years using windows2000, xp and 7
you can check to see what plugins your portable opera is aware of by typing
opera:plugins
in the address field
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On 64-bit Windows 7 this dll file is located under:
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\
its full name is NPSWF32_11_3_300_265.dll or something similar.
On 32-bit system, you should be able to find it under:
C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash\
Copy this file to OperaPortable\App\Opera\program\plugins\ then restart Opera.