bevills1
join:2006-05-29
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Re: Seamonkey Problem Installing Shockwave Flash Player
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. |
