| Seamonkey Problem Installing Shockwave Flash Player Trying to load Pandora radio at »www.pandora.com it says Shockwave Flash Player plugin is needed for Seamonkey version 1.1.17 and gives link to get the plugin. Seamonkey shows it doesn't know what to do with it. I saved plugin to Desktop and executed it from there, and it shows install complete. However, Seamonkey continues to indicate the plugin is needed when trying to go to Pandora radio. Does anybody know how to get Seamonkey to install the plugin or recognize it's installed to enable Pandora radio to work in Seamonkey? |
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| Don't know much about Seamonkey, but if you can watch YouTube videos, then the browser recognizes the plugin.
If you can't, then try copying 'NPSWF32.dll' over to the 'Program Files/Seamonkey/Plugins' folder from 'WINDOWS/system32/Macromed/Flash'.
Also, if you have anything blocking javascript at pandora.com (NoScript, e.g.), you need to enable scripting there. |
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| reply to bevills1
download flash from here: »get.adobe.com/flashplayer/. Once downloaded, close SM, install flash, restart SM. Does it work now? |
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| reply to bevills1
Neither copying the file to plugins folder works nor downloading the file and installing after closing Seamonkey works. I found quite a large number of folks with the same problem many of which were using Firefox. Searching www.mozilla.org I find it's a known issue for Mozilla browsers and some WinXP systems require running the Shockwave install in Win2k or WinNT mode, but that alone didn't resolve the problem.
However, I finally found a solution, but it was almost like having to perform voodoo to get it to work only by experimenting with different ideas. I have a Win2k/WinXP dual boot system and had trouble getting Shockwave installed on both. I finally got it to work in Win2k by uninstalling and reinstalling Seamonkey which didn't work until I created a new user profile, used the new profile with default settings with no popup blocking, no cookie restrictions, etc., and that worked for Win2k.
I followed those same steps for WinXP, but it still didn't work even when run in Win2k mode. From that point I decided to try download to plugins folder after using new profile following Seamonkey reinstall and run in Win2k mode from the plugins folder, and that did the trick. This was a very tedious and aggravating process, and I hope it may help others who have this problem. |
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| reply to bevills1
well, I've nver had any such problems with flash. I did however have one little one: I noticed I had two different versions installed. When I got rid of the old one, the newer one worked perfectly. |
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