Not sure what's going on here, whether it's Flash's fault or FFP's, but the issue is definitely specific to FFP, so I'm posting it here. Ever since I updated my Flash plugin to 10.0.44.32 to 10.0.45.2, Flash no longer works in Firefox Portable. I mean, the area on the page dedicated to the flash applet is properly set aside, but the flash movie itself doesn't play at all, it's just... blank.
In a local copy of Firefox, Flash works just fine, and so will FFP if it's using the local copy of Flash, but if there's an npswf32.dll in the FirefoxPortable directory, it doesn't work.
This issue didn't exist before I updated Flash to 10.0.45.2, so now I'm wondering what changed between the seemingly minor updates...
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Flash NPSWF32.dll 10.0.45.2 is working perfectly fine in my FFP
I do not have a local install of this file.
Tim
Things have got to get better, they can't get worse, or can they?
Now that I've done some more testing, I've found that it seems to work on some machines while on others it doesn't. On my Acer Aspire X1200 desktop it works, as it does on my grandfather's eMachines W2925 desktop. It doesn't work on my aunt's Gateway desktop (unsure of model) nor on my 10.1" Acer netbook.
All of these machines are running Windows 7 x86 Ultimate, so it's not the operating system. I'll look into it some more and see if I can narrow it down any...
Edit: Tim, are you sure you don't have a local install of Flash? Because I just uninstalled the local plugin from my grandfather's machine, and now when I go to homestarrunner.com on FFP (what I use to test Flash), I get a black page (no "plugin missing", just a completely black page--so it's definitely loading the Flash plugin, it's just not running properly). Reinstalling the local Flash fixes it.
I suspected maybe the new Flash plugin needed to be registered or something, but clicking Show Details in the Flash installer didn't reveal anything out of the ordinary: It's just copying the files to a folder in system32 like always, nothing special. So I'm stumped...
Edit 2: Okay, this is really strange. I just uninstalled the local Flash again, except this time FFP was working just fine afterwards. I'm totally lost now. The only thing I can think of is that it's a regression in 10.0.45.2.
Tim, are you sure you don't have a local install of Flash?
Absolutely sure.
I never install the flash plugin for FF, ever.
I extract the needed files from the installer and manually place them in the FFP directory.
Since I never run the installer itself it never has the opportunity to place files elsewhere.
I do run the installer for the IE version of flash, but it is a different file and creates the files needed for IE only. I have confirmed that the flash NPSWF32.dll does not exist on my system other than in FFP and a backup location.
[note WindowsXPSP3 FFP 3.0.x and 2.0.0.x]
Tim
Things have got to get better, they can't get worse, or can they?
Ah, your configuration is completely different from mine. Win7 Ultimate (x86) with FFP 3.6 here. I'm stumped because there's no registration going on in the Flash installer at all (just copying files), so there's no reason it shouldn't be working. And when I reinstalled and uninstalled the local Flash a couple of times, it started working properly. Odd. Like I said, I suspect it's a regression in 45.2 (as it worked with 44.32) perhaps related to the specific combination of Flash 10.0.45.2, FFP 3.6 and Win7.