Firefox Portable and Adding the Flash Player Plugin/Addon/extension

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May 31, 2008 - 3:47pm

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Firefox Portable and Adding the Flash Player Plugin/Addon/extension

[OUTDATED: This will give you an outdated and insecure version of Flash, so this method should no longer be used. The best option is to copy the plugin from a local install at present.]

Firefox Portable and the Flash Player

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UPDATED INFORMATION 6/25/08
The NEW Definitive Simplest way
Download the file from:

http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/xpi/current/flashplayer...
as indicated on the support page.
https://portableapps.com/support/firefox_portable#plugins

BUT...
DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINK ABOVE
DO A RIGHT CLICK, Save link as...

change the extension of the download to flashplayer-win.xpi.ZIP

Unzip it, and there you go, copy the files needed,
NPSWF32.dll and flashplayer.xpt ,
to this directory:
[x]:\PATH\PORTABLE\FirefoxPortable\Data\Plugins

and you have Flash for FFP

Tim

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Tim

Just ran across this article while looking up information for a user with Plugin problems:

Portable Firefox and the Flash Player
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13554_3-9918922-33.html

The one way I differ with the author is I recommend:

X:\path\FirefoxPortable\Data\plugins

while he recommands:
X:\path\FirefoxPortable\App\firefox\plugins

Mine works for me his works for him, whatcha gonna say

I think this may become my standard reply to FFP and Flash Questions.
And it talks about PortableApps.com too

[You have all updated to the latest version haven't you???]

May 31, 2008 - 4:13pm

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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.

May 31, 2008 - 4:35pm

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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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June 1, 2008 - 3:47am

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Really?

I always thought the whole folder (app) was deleted, good thinking John

September 1, 2010 - 3:39pm

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Who will maintain the Firefox

Who will maintain the Firefox plugin folder?
** JUST READ THAT YOU SAID MOZILLA WOULD OFFICIALLY SUPPORT IT IN ANOTHER POST**

And again as I have asked in the bottom of this thread,please be more specific when your talking about a particular folder,or folders.

Thanks

June 25, 2008 - 2:20pm

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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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July 16, 2008 - 3:53am

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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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July 16, 2008 - 10:26pm

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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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July 17, 2008 - 2:01am

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real player?

Can your process for extracting files from Flash be used with other plug-ins, like say real player?

July 17, 2008 - 9:44am

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Hmmm... Technically this

Hmmm...

Technically this should work with K-Meleon Portable then also correct? I'm going to test it out and see...

July 17, 2008 - 9:57pm

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K-Meleon Portable too!

Sweet! It works with K-Meleon also! Very nice!

July 17, 2008 - 2:55pm

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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

July 28, 2008 - 8:03am

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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!

August 21, 2008 - 3:01am

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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

August 22, 2008 - 7:23pm

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Would it hurt to

have the necessary files in both Plugins locations?

August 23, 2008 - 3:29pm

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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

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September 2, 2008 - 5:13pm

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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

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September 9, 2008 - 8:06am

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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 .

But there’s no sense crying over every mistake,
You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.

September 10, 2008 - 1:18pm

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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?

September 10, 2008 - 1:25pm

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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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September 10, 2008 - 1:34pm

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Thanks....

Thanks for the quick reply John.

Mark

September 24, 2008 - 1:55am

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Thanks

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October 6, 2008 - 8:38pm

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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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October 7, 2008 - 4:45am

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Even if

it still is in early development, did you try this?

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October 24, 2008 - 8:55am

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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

August 3, 2010 - 2:38am

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Solution

I FOUND A SOLUTION: WORKS WITH BOTH VIDALIA BUNDLE AND TORBUTTON
I was recently researching how to resolve this problem, until i tried some methods and this worked with me, along with many other cases::
(1) Download adobe flash player from this link: http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/xpi/current/flashplayer... by right-clicking the link and choosing 'Save Target As'
(2) Use WinRAR or any archiving utility to extract EVERYTHING in the archive into the directories (Tor Browser\FirefoxPortable?\App\Firefox\plugins) and (C:\Tor Browser\FirefoxPortable?\App\DefaultData?\plugins)' in case of Vidalia Bundle.
(3)(This step (3) resolves the problem for both Vidalia and TorButton?, if you use TorButton? then start here if you after you've installed flash player, not before that)
Open your Firefox Browser and right click the TorButton? and choose Preferences>Secuirty Settings>Dynamic Content and uncheck "Disable plugins during Tor usage" .
(4)Click Ok and restart Firefox. Visit youtube and watch a video to see for yourself let me know if it doesnt work XD Good Luck...

August 3, 2010 - 12:43pm

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are you sure?

did you check the version of the flash player this xpi installs?
What did it say?

If you want use TOR, then any plugins as flash have to be disabled otherwise I have absolutely no idea what are you going to use the TOR for. (thats why TORbutton disables all stuff like that)
If you enable flash and similar plugins, then running TOR is pointless, since the plugin will bypass the TOR and communicate without any anonymizing with the world.

So can you somehow explain what are you trying to do and what purpose this 'solution' is for?

Otto Sykora
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July 1, 2009 - 8:42am

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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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December 21, 2009 - 7:03pm

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Thank you so much, Tim! You

Thank you so much, Tim! You rock! Now I can listed to Pandora while at work. Your tips are invaluable.

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September 1, 2010 - 2:01pm

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I'm curious as well

I've read a bunch or Tutorials on here and also this other thread

https://portableapps.com/node/15501

And I can't seem to find a definitive answer as to the right folder to install the plugins, and what those plugins are named.

Even the creator of this thread says he doesn't know which fodler is the proper one in the tutorial

February 26, 2010 - 1:24pm

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awesome

Worked great! Both ways, but your way is better.

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September 1, 2010 - 2:12pm

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TIMDAWGS METHOD

timdawg (Homepage) - August 2, 2010 - 9:42am

It seems that Adobe didn't update the flashplayer-win.xpi file to 10.1, which this installer depended on.

So I created a batch file that copies the flash 10.1 plugin installed on your computer's hard drive into your Firefox Portable plugin directory. This solution isn't as good as the original, but since it seems that Adobe is not updating the xpi file anymore, it is better than doing it manually every time.

1. Open Notepad

2. Paste the following code into notepad:

@echo off
copy %WINDIR%\System32\Macromed\Flash\flashplayer.xpt App\Firefox\plugins /Y
copy %WINDIR%\System32\Macromed\Flash\NPSWF32.dll App\Firefox\plugins /Y

3. Click File and Save, browse to [your usb key]\PortableApps\FirefoxPortable (or wherever you have Firefox Portable installed), then under filename type "update_flash.bat" (with quotes)

4. Make sure you have the latest version of Flash Player installed on the local computer. Download and install it if necessary.

5. Browse to [your usb key]\PortableApps\FirefoxPortable (or wherever you have Firefox Portable installed) and double click on update_flash

6. Open Firefox Portable and go to mozilla.com/plugincheck to check your Flash Player version.

My hope is that this continues to work with future versions, so that when you update Flash Player on your computer, you can just run this batch file to update the Flash Player in Firefox Portable.

September 18, 2010 - 10:47am

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help with this, please

i have NO idea how to do this, can someone give me a step by step on how to put flash player or any other extension in the ffp. im new to computers and my friends say this is where i should come to learn how to do this.

September 18, 2010 - 11:56am

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better ask someone

with some computer practice to do it.

Otherwise you either follow the steps in the previous answer in this thread or:

1.
have you local installation of firefox?

yes, then

2.
go to www.adobe.com, slect flash there, and run through the installation process.
This will install the current version of flash on your local PC.

3.
navigate to
c:\windows\system32\macromed\flash

copy the file NPSWF32.dll and paste it into

x:\PortableApps\FirefoxPortable\Data\plugins

whereby the x has to be replaced with the actual drive letter of your usb stick.

you can also do that with the file flashplayer.xpt, the rest is not important.

After that, you can uninstall the flash and the local firefox from the host computer using the software installation panel of windows if you wish.

If you are not sufficiently computer skilled to do such file copy operations, ask some friend who has some practice in it. Depending on your operating system and settings, the folder system32 might be also not visible for you, so you will need to make system folders visible etc. first.

Note:
this is not an extension, it is a plugin and as such the installation is somehow strange therefore.
Extensions are installed automatically in general, just go to the website of mozilla and go to add-ons and there you will find many extensions. If you find what you like, just click on the green button next to it and follow what is on the screen, the extension will be installed.

Otto Sykora
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January 21, 2013 - 7:35am

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manual plug in

i have FF 18.0.1
what i got from c:\windows\system32\macromed\flash was these 2 files

NPSWF32_11_5_502_146.dll
flashplayer.xpt

pasted it on FF portable

when i open it - screen freezes and then will be prompted to continue running or stop the scripts

need help

thanks

January 21, 2013 - 10:59pm

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follow here

https://portableapps.com/node/34230

Otto Sykora
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April 30, 2011 - 12:03pm

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Updated flash.

http://notepad.patheticcockroach.com/718/flash-10-1-final-for-portable-b...

Has an updated version (10.1)

The link in the article is also outdated.

October 13, 2011 - 4:54am

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???

gents my ffp is the latest version in TOR proxy program

October 13, 2011 - 2:07pm

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redistribution of flash player without Adobe's permission is illegal.

October 17, 2011 - 12:43am

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Don't use flash and Tor!

If you're using Tor, you SHOULDN'T use Flash on the same browser, as it's not anonymous then. But if you want to use Flash anyway, download the regular Flash installer from Adobe, install it, and just copy the 2 files manually. After that it works portably. Also, this thread is outdated, and it says so above.

My posts are old and likely no longer relevant.

October 17, 2011 - 1:54am

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some people refuse to understand

some people refuse to understand that using things like flash with tor breaks the tor function completely.
Hope one day someone will design a tor subsystem which whne it detects something like flash running, will simply formate the c: drive of that computer ....;-)

Otto Sykora
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October 17, 2011 - 9:22am

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Hahah, I know what you mean

My posts are old and likely no longer relevant.

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you can use tor

Use a real transparent proxy not a tor bundle crap .. you can alternative use something liek proxychaines or Proxyfier for windows to 'force' thick apps to tunnel over proxy...

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USE MY FU-LASH

Here we go again! Updated Flash or Firefox at some point it broke blocking ads. What I found is that YouTube was forcing HTML5 and not flash.

Plugin to fix HTML5 on YouTube:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/youtube-flash-player/

Grease Monkey script to block YouTube ads and Annotations (YousableTubeFix):

http://userscripts-mirror.org/scripts/show/13333

My FU-LASH update script (Portable Firefox users) :

http://rmccurdy.com/scripts/ FU-LASH.EXE

Post on blocking ADS and Annotations on YouTube for ANDROID:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/block-ads-android-youtube-tubemate-adbloc...

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