The problematic machine was running the latest version of Firefox (2.0.0.11) and Windows XP with all bug fixes applied. So if anything similar happens to you, you may find a helpful tip below. One computer in particular desperately resisted being updated to the latest The problems described below were only with the Firefox plug-in version. As you can see, both files normally reside in
dll file at the bottom is the plug-in version. You can see this is the screenshot above from the Secunia Software Inspector, which shows both versions of the latest Flash player. The player comes packaged as an ActiveX control ("control" is nerd talk for "program") for IE and as a "plug-in" for Firefox.
IE ActiveX version of the Flash player (top) and the Firefox plug-in versionĮven in the best of times, the Flash player is particularly annoying to upgrade because it has to be done twice, once for Internet Explorer and then again for Firefox. Screenshot from the Secunia Software Inspector showing both the
Unfortunately the bugs in Flash extend beyond the player itself, as I learned the hard way while trying to update a handful of machines to the latest version. Simply viewing a Web page can infect your machine, so removing the old buggy versions of Flash is important. Those old versions were flagged by Secunia because they had security vulnerabilities (a nice word for bug, which is itself, a nice word for a mistake by a programmer).Īs I blogged about yesterday, this is now an important issue because the latest version of theįlash player fixes nine bugs, some of them critical (Adobe's term, not mine). The first time I ran the Secunia Software Inspector I almost fell off my chair at the huge list of old versions of the Flash player that were hanging around. Instead, Adobe has an uninstaller for the Flash player.Īnd why do I bring up removing old versions in the first place?īecause the Flash installer has never removed older The first three machines I tried this on resulted in three different outcomes, and the software was not removed on any of the machines. That is, trying to remove the currently installed version via the Windows XP Control Panel Add/Remove applet is a waste of time. But no.įor one, the Flash player does not play well with the other kids in the sandbox.
Hardware H264 Decoding No Failed to create H264 decoderĭirect2Dělocked for your graphics card because of unresolved driver issues.Installing a new version of software should be trivial thing-especially for popular software such as the Adobe Systems' Flash player, which is used by millions of people every day. WebGL Renderer WebGL is currently disabled. Options>advanced>use hardware acceleration when available (unchecked) After considerable fuss and bother, I finally go it to load, but it didn't help.ĭisabled Protected mode from flash player:ĭom.-protedted-mode 0 but what appears to be the latest is V6.14.10.342 (). However I m running via/s3g unichrome pro ipg. I was finally able to get the graphic driver updated to the "latest" version. After that, if I try to play a video from Facebook I cannot see plugin-container even try to start (from Windows Task Manager).
However, I f I try to play a video from facebook, it appears to go into some sort of loop eating up memory (up to about 230,000K) then hangs and dies. I have determined that the problem appears to be specific to Facebook, since plugin-container will run and play videos from. I have done everything suggested so far, and I still cannot videos to play from Facebook. I have spent most of the day beating my head against this.